What happened to this Mom and her day old baby is scary stuff.

[Warpy]

6. No, that's not really it.

There was a big rumpus a few years ago when insurance companies wanted to discharge women and infants as soon as the baby came out, people calling it "drive by deliveries." A lot of the babies boomeranged back within a day with complications. Now they keep them for at least 24 hours.

Refusing to undergo a tox screen (against the fifth amendment) and going AMA are both red flags and the phone calls to CPS are mandatory. Unfortunately it activated a martinet who just snatched the kid without asking the right questions and certainly without bothering to assess the real situation along with the baby's condition.

When vague questions like these arise about newborns and their families, civilized countries send trained people to check on them periodically to make sure the baby is gaining weight and the mother is healing well. We'd rather just criminalize mothers for being poor and snatch their kids in this country.

It's just another example of how this has turned into a hell for a lot of working people.

I hope this mom sues, but CPS is nearly as unaccountable as the cops are.