HIV Positive lady Breast Fed Another Women's Baby

Wow, that would be scary, I can't imagine the mother of the baby and how she is dealing with this..I know in America, that would be unusual that anyone other than personal, can get to the babies. I am sorry that woman in your country have this opening that someone can walk in like that..Do you have many babies stolen because of this lack of security? That is scary..

I think in this case as is already realised in the initial stage or immediately after the feeding, the preventive measures and appropriate medicines in time can bring the baby out of danger. However, the doctors and the hospital authorities have to go through a clean examination of the baby to prove it. It is quite unexpected and no one can think of such an unfortunate scene in any manner. It is everyone's duty to take care of ourself and be cautious of such things happening. Many such incidents are happening around due carelessness and absentmindedness. Also, the hospital staff and person on duty should be much careful for the incidents like this. Thank-s

Poor baby! I would be really really upset and worried if that happened to my kid. I hope the baby would be fine.

I would be livid! I would think that hospital can expect a huge law suit for the hospital neglecting the safety of her child while in their care in the nursery and expect some expensive damages if the child ever contracts the disease. On a side note if I am recalling correctly wasn't there a scene in the movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle where the woman became a nanny after loosing her own baby and started nursing the child she was to care for. EWWWWW....

How would I have handled it? I probably would have went on a killing rampage! Killed the woman who was HIV+, then killed the staff responsible for the patient, and the staff responsible for watching the newborns to ensure crazy people don't go near them. There are so many people at fault here. 1. someone should have been monitoring the crazy lady, 2. someone should have been protecting the newborns, 3. Each time I had a child the child never left my sight until we left the hospital.. so why was the baby not with mom? Not saying mom is to be blamed.. but why was the child in the nursery and not with her.. just curious.

I would be so upset. If my child ended up with HIV, I would sue the hospital for allowing that to happen. Our hospital where I live, you cannot go into the nursery, they keep the door locked and the nurses bring you the baby whose number on their bracelet matchen the number on the mother's bracelet so I wouldn't think that this could happen here. If it did, I would sue.

This is certainly a something that never should have happened. There have been many times I've been to the nursery in hospitals and for long periods of time no one not one nurse came in to check on the babies. I know they have other things to do but these are newborn babies anything could happen. Plus the fact they are someone else's babies and they are responsible for them. It should be set in stone that at all times one nurse is left with the babies to watch over them. It doesn't matter if it's one or many babies. I don't know what I'd do if this was my baby. I know I'd do a lot of praying! That is for sure. As for the hospital and staff, they would certainly here from me and if my child did get anything from that woman they would be footing the bills for eternity. That's the least they could do. Anything my child needed medically they would have to provide. That is for sure. Bless that baby and the mom and father. I feel for them and I will pray so hatd for the baby to be free of illness.

OMG....it makes me sick to my stomach...how did the woman ever get the baby out of the nursery? here you just about have to be blood relative to even see a newborn. They are so closely monitored. I feel for all of them....praying the baby will be fine! Dang...strange things do happen don't they?

OMG! That poor mother and child. I really hope that the woman's milk had not come in yet and the baby did not contact HIV from this mentally ill woman. I would be a mess if that were to happen to me. I would be livid, but I would also be heartbroken at the same time.

second time lost all my response grrrrr. I think I would be so scared and so angry that they let that women get to my baby then I would pray that God would keep her from getting HIV and hope my baby would not get the virus. How could they have let an HiV patient into the nursery like that? usually you cannot jusgt walk into a hospital nursery that easily.that baby's poor mom how torn up she must be and hoping so much that her baby will be spared. thats ju st so bad of the hospital personnel not to keep tabs on that HIV patient.

OMGOSH, This is horrible. I hope & pray this baby will be alright. I am afraid i would have shown my patootie over this altho the damage was already done. Somebody was not doing their job in that nursery to have let her get to someone else's baby , period.

My goodness,how could the hospital be so negligent and careless! Why aren't they guarding and securing the nursery? How could that HIV positive women enter the place just like that? The poor baby has been a victim of gross negligence of the hospital staff. I think they should pay the price. The mother of the baby should sue them. And that HIV and mentally-ill woman should be held and kept where she should be.

I can only imagine how that would feel...My goodness what a horrible ordeal for the baby and his mother! It’s interesting that the mentally challenged woman already had milk and she had not given birth yet...Regardless, I pray that this poor baby will be okay and not infected with HIV. Such situations one can only imagine the feelings one would experience. Very sad...

That is horrible sweetie. How could this have happened in the first place? I mean really.

Hi Cynthiann, What a horrible story! I don't know how I'd react but it wouldn't be pretty, I'm sure. I don't understand how she even got to a baby that wasn't hers. The hospital staff must have really been out to lunch. Here, it would be next to impossible to even touch another woman's baby and certainly not get all comfy and start nursing it. They have a pretty solid security here and the nursery is monitored at all times. A mom can't even just go in and get her own baby. The nurse has to be called and she will bring the baby in to the mother. Hopefully, the baby will be alright. You'll have to keep us updated.

Hi ya Cynth That really is a sad sad story and I really hope that the baby is fine. I really have no idea how I would react I really don't. I think unless you are in that situation you have no idea what it is like. I can only think that I would go through many emmotions, anger, sadness, hopelessness, dread, fear, hatred, pity and oh how the list I am sure would go on!

This is just terrible! I couldn't imagine what the parents of that baby must be going through. If I were the dad, I don't know what the depths of my anger would do. I might even get violent. I just hope that the baby is fine.

Oh my how devastating this has to be for the new born baby's parents. While I understand the woman is challenged the hospital did not do a good job at monitoring her. I can also understand that they are human, but not sure the humanity will refrain from my absolute anger that I would be feeling had it been my baby. I hope the hospital can see this as an eye opener that they need to have more staff especially so that situations like this do not ever occur again. In the meantime, my prayers for the baby and family, this truly is very devastating.

It was an accident and it is going to be a very bad accident if the baby gets the AIDS from her. It sounds like a film story to me. How can be someone so careless. It is a rare case and very tragic one.