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mcurban
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2nd code pink in one day.
mcurban
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So, we're at Seton downtown (don't know if I said which hospital) and I just heard the second "code pink" announcement of the day (missing baby). Part of me thinks, good for them for sending out an alert. The other part thinks, sheesh! these are people's babies! let's keep an eye on them, shall we?
(both were cancelled fairly quickly)
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Re: 2nd code pink in one day.
Yeah...that's not ok.
The O'Baby Blog
really? ?That is so scary! ?They seemed sooooo careful when we were there. ?One night he had a major poop-splosion while I was changing a diaper. ?Poop shot all over the glass "tub" bed thing, so I cleaned him up and held him in my bed while DH took the empty tub to the nursery to get a new one. ?Well, walking into the nursery with an empty tub in your hands apparently scares the crap out of the nurses- one looked at him and goes "OH MY GOD WHERE'S THE BABY?!?" ?Like he'd dropped the baby out of the tub on the way down the hall without noticing. ?Derrr. ?
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
vivian . february 2010
mabel . august 2012
LOL! I'm sorry, that cracked me up! But seriously, code pinks are not something I'd want to hear
52 Choices For Better Health
That is seriously scary.
When Meredith was a couple weeks old, we went to another hospital (not the same one where we'd had her) to visit friends who just had their baby boy. At one point, I left the room and headed to the lounge area to change Meredith's diaper - there were too many people in the room to lay her down anywhere to change her. On the way back from the lounge, I was stopped by a nurse who nearly called security because she thought I was trying to make off with someone else's baby.
Meredith, 6-1-06 and Alex, 11-5-09
It's not OK. The nurse was mortified. As soon as she checked the bracelets she realized she had the wrong room. The good news is that the security measures work.
Yeah, that's why this strikes me as so weird- I delivered at Seton Central and they were crazy about checking those bracelets. ?To the point that I started to get annoyed, even though I knew it was for the best. ?
I wonder if having the Jones quints there has made them more cautious with alerts? ?I mean, they're all over the news, their blog, etc.- maybe the publicity has the hospital on high alert and quicker to hit the alarms?
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
vivian . february 2010
mabel . august 2012
I agree. However, I wonder if "crying wolf" will come back to bite them. They have workers at all the doors who are responsible for not letting anyone in to/ out of the main doors during the code. I would think code pink is heard too many times in too short a span (and then canceled shortly after) the workers might not take their job as seriously as they should. Who knows.
AMEN to that! that was so important to me. in fact, whenever they took her to weigh her, i insisted one of us go with her. even though it was 2am each time.
52 Choices For Better Health
OMG that is terrifying.
AT St. David's central, they were pretty careful - that's not to say there weren't some Code Pinks that I was not aware of.
One night I DID find a nurse badge under my bed as I was groggily going down to sleep. DD happened to be in the nursery at that time and I FREAKED out thinking of all kinds of scary scenarios (like some nurse imposter had hit a real nurse over the head and her real ID fell to the floor while a fake ID/nurse was walking the halls with my baby) so I made DH go and get DD right then and there and called the nurse line to let them know I found an ID and they needed to come and claim it STAT. Looking back at it, my crazy scenario does not make much sense - but at the time I was SO F'N SCARED that DD was already in an unmarked van in the parking lot.
PP story about getting the wrong baby - okay, I think I'm going to have nightmares about that one now!
We had to take Meredith out of the maternity ward and over to the adjacent Children's Hospital for some testing. A nurse accompanied us the entire way there and back. We got too close to the door with Meredith in her little isolette thing-y, and it set off the alarm. We had to step away from the doors, wait for a nurse to turn off the alarm, and then wait for them to disarm her little ankle bracelet. When we got back, we had to wait at the desk while they rearmed her bracelet. I felt pretty secure.
Meredith, 6-1-06 and Alex, 11-5-09
O.M.G. This whole thread is freaking me out!
::making mental note to send DH to accompany any & all baby movement::
Ditto this. And they put some type of security sensor on their umbilical cord stump that you can only get off if the stump falls off or an employee takes it off.
We have one maybe once a month. It's important to be able to "pull that trigger" in L&D/PostPartum. Basically, if they are unable to locate an infant within a certian period of time (1 minute? I really don't know) the code Pink is called. So if like you ask your nurse "can I see my baby? A nurse said they were taking him to the nursery for a vital sign check" and your nurse goes to the nursery and they're not there, and they call the charge nurse and they don't know where the baby went (Radiology etc). Then it gets called.
Don't be freaked out!! There are a lot of security measures in place to ensure the safety and security of those babies. Special badges for baby nurses (I cannot transport a newborn in the hospital), the "Baby Lo-Jack" as we call it
and last resort is calling the Code Pink - which believe me, NO ONE ever gets soft about. We cover our exits, check every purse and coat and nobody leaves until it's cancelled. That's someones baby and we will do everything we can to ensure they stay in the hospital! You can count on us!
This is the same way I feel about Seton NW. The baby will not leave my sight until he goes to get circumcized and DH will be going along to that.
Ditto this. We also do drills in our hospital if a child/infant is ever missing. We call it code white and if it happens the entire hospital is locked down.
Liam is 5!
DS's Baby Lo-Jack anklet fell off while he was in our room and I had a nurse rush in and check to make sure he was still there. It made me feel secure that they were on top of it, but when it happened again they just called to see if he was in the room. I don't think it set of an alarm, but it was probably within the 1 minute or so that they have to locate the baby.
And they did try to bring me the wrong baby, but DS was in my room already, so the nurse didn't even make it all the way in the door with the bassinet. Oh, and they tried to give me the wrong meds once. She put the pill in my hand and I noticed it looked different and asked about it.
I used to work security at St. Davids and this is the same thing I was going to say. Code Pink is there for a very good reason, and it's scary to envision a baby being stolen from the hospital, but it's very nearly impossible these days. Code Pink alarm goes off and elevators and stairwell doors and exterior exit doors all lock down automatically when a baby's bracelet gets too close to a doorway. Staff in the entire hospital cover all doorways and tons of other security measures are in place to make sure a baby doesn't make it out. We often had drills, and occasionally had false alarms and like Taytee said, there is no "crying wolf" about it. Everyone takes it seriously, every time.
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