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Mom Receives Photographs Of Deceased Infant
Recently a lady in Cincinnati gave birth to a premature baby who weighed under two pounds. The infant did well for almost a few weeks before dying due to complications. After the infant had passed, there was staff from the hospital who came in and asked if they could take pictures of the newborn. The mother informed them to not take pictures. She was pretty shocked from their request and called their attempt “morbid”. Well, apparently they not only went against her wishes, but then later contacted her to get her permission to send them via mail to her after her return home from the hospital.
I know that I have never experienced a loss in this way and I also don’t know of anyone else who has either, but does this really sound like a legitimate policy or procedure for a hospital? The workers that initiated this were part of what they call a “bereavement team”. It has me wondering exactly what is the goal of this bereavement team?
The staff overlooked the patient’s request and instead sent over 120 photos of the deceased newborn to the grief stricken mother, wow. Naturally, the mother was upset enough to hire a lawyer and see what her rights as a patient are under these circumstances. I just can’t imagine this being a standard procedure and a method of helping a mother cope with the loss of her child. Let’s face it, I can’t imagine that there’s anything at all that can give someone peace at that time in someone’s life, minus love and support from the people around them, but to think that seeing photos after the child has expired doesn’t seem like it would be anything that would be at the top of the list. I am quite curious as to whether this is something that some parent’s would actually want?


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