A nurse told me she had to bathe my newborn in a different room but I refused to let her—turns out I was in the right
BECOMING a first-time mom is both exciting and a bit nerve wracking. Mothers want to make sure they aren’t doing anything to harm their baby and hope they are giving them the best possible care. One woman said that after she gave birth, a nurse wanted to take her baby away for bath time—but the […]
BECOMING a first-time mom is both exciting and a bit nerve wracking.
Mothers want to make sure they aren’t doing anything to harm their baby and hope they are giving them the best possible care.
One woman said that after she gave birth, a nurse wanted to take her baby away for bath time—but the mother didn’t let her.
Posting to her TikTok account, @MadiPCurtis recounted the experience for her followers:
“So when I had my daughter I had to have a C section.
“And during our tour I specifically asked if there was any reason that a baby would have to be taken out of the room without a parent.”
According to her, the staff at the hospital told her no—if a mother didn’t want her baby to leave the room, there was no reason to do so.
“After I had my baby, she was with me, it was great. They did all the tests, everything, in the room.
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“But this one nurse came in and was like, ‘Okay, I have to take your baby to give her a bath.’
“So immediately I’m like, ‘Um, they told us that they don’t have to leave the room if we don’t want them to.’”
The nurse, however, apparently refuted this claim.
“She’s like, ‘No I have to take her to the nursery to give her a bath.’”
Annoyed, the new mother questioned the reasoning behind this—to which the nurse allegedly told her that’s just “how we do things here.”
So the mother asked if her husband could join.
“She’s like, ‘No, sorry he can’t go in there.’”
The reason, the mother claimed, that the husband couldn’t go in was because the nurse was performing a circumcision procedure at the same time.
The mother kept fighting the nurse, and eventually told her that her newborn was simply not leaving the room without a parent.
“So this lady says to me, ‘What do you think I’m going to do? Hurt your baby?’
“I was like, ‘Well I didn’t until you just said that. Now I might think you might hurt my baby.’”
The mother, furious and overwhelmed, began to cry.
“And [the nurse] says to me, ‘Oh honey, you’re just having a meltdown. It’s the hormones.’”
“I was like, ‘Excuse me?! I’m having a meltdown because you’re trying to take away my baby five minutes after I had her, when I specifically said I did not want her to leave the room.’”
The nurse eventually agreed to let the woman’s husband accompany her.
“And then the next nurse told me that there was no reason that she couldn’t have done it in the room,” the mother concluded.
The comments section was filled with supportive words for the mother and people sharing similar stories:
“Postpartum nurse here. They never have to leave the room unless there is a need for NICU. STAND YOUR GROUND. We understand,” one person claimed.
“My dad got a skin safe marker and drew his and my mom’s name on each of my feet. They brought back another child and he… he almost slapped the nurse,” said another.
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