i just have to believe these people live in small towns/rural areas and do not get out much. there is no other explanation for some of this. kidnapping the baby bc they require that you give them the name of a pediatrician? seriously? we had to have selected a ped before giving birth, and who in their right mind wouldn’t, just for the sake of PRUDENCE??
and i might add that was 26 yrs ago!
In this case, the guy says his sister and some other relatives are nurses, so he doesn’t need a pediatrician.
Yeah.
I think a lot of it is just plain stubbornness. Like a teenager. If someone in “authority” tells them something, they automatically do the opposite.
And then there are those who don’t realize that there are lots of morons out there reproducing and if hospitals don’t make an effort to make sure people have some clue, they can be sued.
You may be right about people in rural areas-there is a reason most people live in them, and it isn’t to have more oversight, concern, etc. It is to be left alone to live a (usually) close-to-nature, hippie-but-conservative life without interference. It is a totally different world from SA, just over 30 miles away.
Most of the kids out here are homeschooled or in private schools, and there are a lot of home births, too, with a nurse midwife.
My cub was born with the military, so I’ve no idea what goes on in the civilian ones, but my doc said I could go home after less than 24 hours, and no one asked me a damn thing-I picked up my kid, got in the car and went home to rest. That was a long time ago, so I’ve no idea what may have changed.
I agree that story sounds like the parents are paranoid, but with what goes on today, but considering some of the stuff that goes on, maybe we would be, too.