Nightmare...

Larry Gude

Strung Out
washingtonpost.com


Woozy from pain medication after a Caesarean section, swinging from joy over her newborn boy to exhaustion from the strain of delivering him, Karen Piper mentioned to her doctor that she'd been hoping for a girl. She would come to regret those words.
 

BS Gal

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They don't let the mother take the child home, yet they fail so many times when a mother is abusing a child at home. UFB. That poor woman and baby.
 

vraiblonde

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I do not believe that story, especially in a city that lets any crack whore take their child home from the hospital with no problem.

:bs:
 

vraiblonde

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"She told me the burden was on me to prove that I should be allowed to take my baby home," says Piper, a lawyer who works at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Hello? Bull#### story.
 

PantherWoman

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WTF is wrong with this area? I swear, the hospitals are incompetent enough as it is and this just proves it.
Sounds to me like they were trying to railroad her probably because she is a single mother. They do things like that to people they think won't have the money to fight them. I hope she sues them.
I'm so tired of hearing this sh!t happening to perfectly good mothers when others who are abusing and killing their children get off. Our system is seriously flawed.
 
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dustin

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Thats what happens when a crapload of regulations get enforced by idiots.

I see it everyday here.
 

vraiblonde

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Sounds to me like they were trying to railroad her probably because she is a single mother. They do things like that to people they think won't have the money to fight them. I hope she sues them.

Did you read where she is a lawyer who works at the U.S. Department of the Interior?

I think this woman did more than remark that she'd hoped for a girl and the "reporter" spun the story to rouse the rabble. If a hospital is going to single someone out for persecution, I can damn well guarantee you it won't be a federal lawyer.
 

Larry Gude

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Did you read where she is a lawyer who works at the U.S. Department of the Interior?

I think this woman did more than remark that she'd hoped for a girl and the "reporter" spun the story to rouse the rabble. If a hospital is going to single someone out for persecution, I can damn well guarantee you it won't be a federal lawyer.

You catch this part?

When a social worker asked for details of Luke's conception -- Piper is a single mother and, at 50, an unusually old one -- Piper concedes she blew up. "My attitude with her was confrontational because I was getting scared they would take my son from me," she says.
 

vraiblonde

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You catch this part?

Yes, but I still think she and the reporter glossed that incident. It's not unusual for brand new mothers to be emotional, and hospitals certainly take that into consideration when there's an outburst. Which tells me that Mama was a little more than "confrontational".
 

vraiblonde

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Plus you'll notice that the reporter led with the "wishing for a girl" and the "confrontation" is buried further down.

It's getting to where I don't believe a word the newspapers print. They lie, they spin, they omit key facts. Reporters have an agenda and want to color your perception a certain way, so they don't tell you the whole story. It's like all those reporters who got busted completely fabricating stories - they want you to believe that something happens all the time, when it never even happened the first time.
 

cattitude

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Maybe interesting..maybe not...but, at 50, she same sure probably knew the sex of the baby. She would have to have a ton of genetic testing. I suppose she could have declined to know the sex, but the whole story sounds strange.
 
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