Brooklyn dad says Beyonce's security stopped him from seeing preemie twins

[The Straight Story]

Brooklyn dad says Beyonce's security stopped him from seeing preemie twins

Hip-hop parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z were in lullaby land with their baby girl Blue Ivy Carter Sunday, but one new dad was fuming over the velvet rope in the maternity ward that kept him away from his twins.

Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife delivering two premature girls was tripled by Beyoncé’s bodyguards treating Lenox Hill Hospital like an exclusive nightclub.

Coulon griped that he’s been repeatedly barred from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit, once for 20 minutes, by the superstar couple’s private security.

He said bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor waiting room, booting his relatives out.

“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU (Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit) and it happened once on Friday — just because they wanted to use the hallway,” said Coulon, a contractor from Bedford-Stuyvesant.


http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-01-08/news/30605736_1_beyonc-baby-girl-hospital-staffer

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I remember when twins were a very unusual happening

Of course, that was way before fertility drugs.

[laundry_queen]

3. It's not just fertility drugs

A mother's age has a LOT to do with it. The older first time mothers get, the bigger the chance of twins hence part of the reason why the rate is going up - older mothers. It's not a HUGE difference overall anyway, the rate of twins used to be 1 in 98 or something like that 30 or 40 years ago, and it's now 1 in 87. A bit more common, but it's not like it's all over the place. I had more twins in my small school when I was growing up (2 sets in my class) than my kids do total in 3 separate schools. And that WAS before most modern fertility treatments.

[hang a left]

8. Wtf???

Can you please tell me what The odds of having twins have anything to do with this man and his family being prohibited from seeing his babies??

[Darth_Kitten]

17. I'd sue if I were the man....

He and everybody else has a right to visit their loved ones in a hospital without some prima donna's security detail taking over and acting like thugs.

[Politicalboi]

35. Sue them and the hospital

They allowed it to happen. They had 9 months to prepare.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

19. Nothing, but it's an observation on the new frequency of TWINS

among famous people.

The probability of having twins was 1 in 80 pregnancies back in 1980. Now? Dramatic change. 1 in 53. As time goes by, I expect it will change even more. Now even the house cat is having twins, so to speak.

Beyonce is not that old, but she's a star with a schedule, and can't be seen sporting bellies during movies and certain times. If she can program it, all the better. Waiting till the body decides to get pregnant is not something people want nowadays. Movie stars, singers, etc. are frequent users of fertility drugs, but they're certainly not the only ones. Fertility drugs are nowadays taken like candy.

Here's what an article says about that.

"You have a double whammy going on. There are more older moms and more widespread use of fertility-enhancing therapies," Martin said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6auCzkzQAAYy7gvRY1GgLgGOfPg?docId=e2bb9bdc855d460daeefdb3067de8925

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Beyonce didn't have twins; the twins were those of the guy

who was prevented from seeing them by Beyonce's entourage.

[Quantess]

2. Wow, I would be burned up angry about that, too.

Beyonce & Jay-Z can afford to take an entourage of nurses home with them, not sure if that's a viable option, but I can't see why not.

Also: Naming your child "Blue" as a first name is terrible. Middle names are bad enough. like Elijah Blue and etc. It sounds like "blew"

[Ecumenist]

11. I can't stand either one of them. Never have been able to and frankly,

I think it's extremely, GHETTO to name their child what they did...Damn, BEYONCE is ghetto to me.

[piratefish08]

14. ghetto? really? wtf?

[Ecumenist]

21. Yes GHETTO....!! I'm black and I hate it when some of us don't think of our children before

we give them the goofiest names on the planet. Sorry, but it's true.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I hear you.

I'm a teacher. We tell name stories.

It's not just black parents. White folks go all crazy on names as well.

I should write a book.

[Ecumenist]

29. Yeah, I think you should!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

33. Names are funny. We're stuck with whatever our parents give us

and if we change them, that leads to all kinds of issues.

[laundry_queen]

4. I don't blame him for being pissed

I'd be complaining through a lawyer to the hospital. Give me a discount on my bill, please, for my troubles and emotional distress....
I HATE grandiose behavior, no matter who it comes from.

[Dawson Leery]

5. The 1% at it again.

[ManiacJoe]

6. Why do folks let private security pretend to have such authority?

A little knowledge goes a long way.

[NYC Liberal]

9. Especially since the private security wasn't even the hospital's security.

It would be one thing if the hospital security was enforcing this.

What authority did they have? I would have tried to walk past and then called the cops if they laid a finger on me.

[TransitJohn]

12. Because they'll beat the living shit out of you?

Just guessing here, but I bet they were big and mean.

[ret5hd]

28. Damn, what a good way to make a few hundred thou.

i'd do it.

[surfdog]

13. I have no idea

I would've told those assholes to go to eat a rock

I would say it's his own fault for listening to them

Who the fuck are they ?

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Years ago, a friend of mine was 'arrested' by private security.

It's a horrible story with a happy ending.

She was working at a restaurant with an underground parking lot where the employees parked in the back, as far from the entrance as you could get in that lot. She was walking to her car after work and smelled something 'funny' in the garage. She walked around a corner and found herself facing two security guards smoking a joint right next to where she was parked. So she walked around them to get into her car, thinking the best thing was just to ignore their joint smoking party. But the guards freaked out, grabbed her, threw down the joint and had her in cuffs before she could get into her car.

The security guys told her she was under arrest for possession of marijuana and called the cops. Cops came, talked to everyone, picked up the joint. They ended up letting my friend go. They later said the smell of pot on the security guys gave them away. And my friend, having just gotten off work, had no pot smell on her. She had sat in the back of the police car long enough that the cops could tell she hadn't been smoking pot. The police reported the incident to the mall that employed the security guards and they were both fired.

My friend then hired an attorney and the settlement she received paid off her student loans. (That's the happy ending.)

[Angry Dragon]

7. the father should have called the police

[Liquorice]

10. That complaint was found not to be credible. There

was another similar complaint that was also dismissed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/n-y-state-health-department-launches-probe-mistreatment-parents-beyonce-hospital-stay-article-1.1004654

[NYC Liberal]

15. This particular complaint isn't mentioned in that article.

[MedicalAdmin]

16. That article doesn't clear the private security.

It clears the hospital which means the holpital followed procedures. It doesn't mean that private security wasn't assholes. And the hospital already admitted that they had modified security procedure for the couple.

[MinervaX]

18. If some private security contractor ever touched me

Or tried to corral me or infringe upon my rights they would be picking out lead from the upper portion of their leg.

[Logical]

20. You would shoot them?

[Scurrilous]

22. Stab them w/ a pencil?

[rustydog]

23. You would bring a firearm into a Family Maternity Unit?

I had to remove a deluded subject at our FMC a few months ago. He had a bowie knife he was told to remove. he began to give me lip and I noticed the bulge at this waist...Yep his 9mm because you never know when a newborn is going to go gangsta on your ass. But hey, he has his permit!!!that makes it all OK!

We had an interesting conversation and he finally realized he was seconds away from not seeing his bouncing baby boy because there was a jail cell awaiting his occupancy if he did not leave immediately and return unarmed.

[JI7]

27. i once had an uncomfortable interaction with a Private Security Guy

the guy was a pervert. at first it seemed normal like he was making sure i knew where i was going. but it got weird, he started asking some personal stuff and was almost threatening. i was going to my car and just left. but i really felt like calling the regular police and wonder if i should have.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. She should have just had her baby at home

Or she could have bought her own hospital.

[FarCenter]

31. Lennox Hill is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System

North Shore LIJ is the second largest secular non-profit health system in the country.

They are not a New York State or City hospital.

When someone shows up at the hospital with a lot of cash, they get special accommodation.

You often see parts of hospitals named after charitable donors. I imagine that those folks get special accommodation too.

[Nye Bevan]

32. And that should extend to average people being prevented from visiting their premature babies?

I think not.

[FarCenter]

34. He was delayed, not prevented

Its like when they close an airport just because some asshole is getting a haircut.