Originally Posted by dawngloves
Not to disqualify what you are saying, but that would mean that all the babies have a U tox sent. Is this true?
I'm not sure what a U-tox is, but I'm assuming that you mean that babies are screened for drugs.
What happens here, from my understanding, is that many of the mothers are already known "frequent flyers" or come into the hospital absent of all prenatal care (which happens alot here), others are very honest about their drug use or start exhibiting symptoms that tell a different story from what they are, or that the baby does after birth.
No, it's not routine for every baby, but it ends up manifesting itself somewhere along the lines of their hospital stay.
Even our instructor was telling the class, "The normal, married couple, that work, have health insurance...isn't quite what you are going to see a whole lot of."
These are relatively small hospitals that do maybe 8 to 10 births a week.
I was as shocked to hear that as you are. I even looked at the LPN and said, "Come on, 50%? That's half!". My instructor was sitting there nodding her head, "You'll see!".
To put it in total perspective of how bad the social services department is...there was a case here about 6 months ago that made the paper where a guy was driving down a 4-lane highway past a trailer park (where the speed limit is 55 MPH) and noticed there were kids in the middle of the road....and then noticed that one of them couldn't have been more than 2 years old...was totally naked, it was about 55-60 degrees outside.
He called the police, they came out, found out where the kids lived and found the mother naked in the bed, passed out, drunk, with her boyfriend, who was high.
The children were taken away for about two weeks and returned to the mother b/c they said that since the children were not actually harmed...no crime was committed.
Yup...my jaw hit the floor when I read that too.
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