KKH apologises for baby swap incident
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luckily, realized mistake fast.
else bring up somebody else's baby for 20 years :nailbite:
:yikes:
wonder other hospital maternity ward like :-
SGH, NUH, Thomson Medical centre, Mount Alvernia, Mount Elizabeth hospital, etc - whether have precaution steps implemented in place to prevent mistake like this. -
mother777:
My hubby too. But luckily my baby had his father's (my fil) eyes (according to hubby) and a birthmark which runs in his family (all the cousins and cousins' kid's have the same birth mark, boys have it on their left and girls have it on their right. Very amazing hor?) so all we need was to look for these two features. For me, I only looked for the birth makeWow so baby swaps really do happen! When I had my son in KKH 2 yrs ago my hubby kept looking for unique birth mark on my son to avoid any possible swap. He was worried that baby may get mixed up at infant care room, where most babies are kept..
Am glad he was so cautious.. Even though I made fun of him being paranoid that time..
Good to know that the swap was identified quickly... Very difficult if few months or years are gone.. The mother would have emotionally bonded with baby n vice versa..
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I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
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The problem was that the baby was mistakenly tagged from the start with two different tags. If so, the baby might have been given to the wrong mother even during the nursing stage.
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huh ?
you mean breast feed wrong baby ? -
they should trace back all the way to the source -
which nurse there made such a grave mistake ? -
jtoh:
The problem was that the baby was mistakenly tagged from the start with two different tags. If so, the baby might have been given to the wrong mother even during the nursing stage.
I delivered eldest at KKH. I remembered the nurse asking me to verify the tags before putting them on the baby.
I don't know what's the procedure if the mother is under GA.
Still it's frightening to know that there's a possibility that a wrong tag could be used. -
slmkhoo:
Was the other baby wearing two incorrect tags? Meaning its tags identifies it as belonging to the wrong mother? If so, the discharging unit wouldn't know better and would just let the baby go home with the mother identified on the tag. But if the baby was wearing 2 correct tags, and the baby was sent home with the wrong mother, that's serious. Then the error occurred twice. Once with the tagging, where Baby 2 was tagged with two different tags, and second when the babies were discharged.jtoh:
The problem was that the baby was mistakenly tagged from the start with two different tags. If so, the baby might have been given to the wrong mother even during the nursing stage.
But the other baby had correct tags and was still discharged.
Mothers - tie a big red bow around your baby's ankle with your name and phone number big big on it.
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What’s written on the tag? I just vaguely remember something like ‘BABY TAN’. Is the mother’s IC there?
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I remembered the tags had my name and I/C number. The nurse who attended me asked me to verify both tags before putting the tags on dd1’s wrist and ankle.
I scruntised the tags.
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