Is the new born baby tags important? / myLot

Malaysia

May 28, 2016 11:16pm CST

Every hospital here provides tags to new born baby. They will put on baby's left leg and right leg. I think it is to identify the baby with the mother. The tags' code and name must be matched with the mother. Hence I think it is important and all the hospitals must implement it seriously. However, I found that some of the nurses think that it is not important. When a new born baby drops all his tags. They don't do anything. They told the parents that it is ok for a new born baby to have no tags. If it is OK, why the hospitals must put tags to new born baby?

What do you think?

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Michelle

@infatuatedbby (95001)

• United States

29 May 16

The birthing place my sister had her baby a few years ago - all babies stay with the mom so no confusion can be done. I think tags are important but they can fall off so they need a better strategy.

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hoong143

@hoong143 (1397)

• Malaysia

29 May 16

Yes. The tags could be fallen. Hence, the hospital give one tag to the left leg and one tag to the right leg. I think if both of it fell off, the hospital should give two new tags to replace it.

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hoong143

@hoong143 (1397)

• Malaysia

29 May 16

@infatuatedbby I hope they can do it too.

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Michelle

@infatuatedbby (95001)

• United States

29 May 16

@hoong143 I hope the employees will make sure tags do not fall off and if they do - to put them back to the correct baby.

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Toni

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

29 May 16

It's the most important thing so they don't confuse the babies. Sometimes babies could all look the same. That's why when my baby came out of my body, i took a long good look at him just in case the nurse would make some stupid switch.

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hoong143

@hoong143 (1397)

• Malaysia

29 May 16

You did the right thing. Some of the nurses are not professional. We can't trust them. Hence, the hospital needs to put the tags to avoid the mistake. But,...

Toni

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

29 May 16

@hoong143 My sister is a doctor and she was there when I gave birth and that was the first thing i asked her. She told me switching of babies is impossible to happen in their hospital. But still, I took that long good look before I lost my consciousness.

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hoong143

@hoong143 (1397)

• Malaysia

30 May 16

@toniganzon Yes. We should not 100% trust them. Human could make mistake.

youless

@youless (112100)

• Guangzhou, China

29 May 16

Of course these tags are quite important. Because basically the babies look the same. The mistakes can happen anytime and the tags are one of the important methods to avoid it. In fact when I was in the hospital when my baby was born, not only my baby had the tags, but also I had the same tags. My baby didn't have a name at that time, so they wrote down his name like mother's full name + B. Namely my name is Jing, then my baby is Jing B