[petitfour]

When our first child was born, the docs were telling new parents to put their baby to sleep on his/her stomach. A few years later, they said your baby could die from SIDS unless you put him/her to sleep on his/her back or side.

When our fifth child was born, they gave the first of the Hep B shots before we left the hospital. When our sixth was born two years later, the hospital gave us the literature regarding the vaccine, but our pediatrician said that her practice no longer recommends giving the vaccine at the hospital. They wait for two or more months. I wonder if there was something in the mother's patient history that made them think she was at risk for Hep B. Or did the doctor just trust the magic tests that are wrong a good bit of the time more than he trusted the patient?

[justshutupandtakeit]

The article clearly states that the doctors didn't believe the first test gave her a second test which also turned out positive. Only after three tests did the negative turn up.

Since this was probably a 16 or 17 year old they could reasonably have figured the couple's actions indicated up to that point irresponsibility and thus likely to have contacted the disease. If, as I suppose, this was not a married couple but teenaged irresponsibles hep was quite possible.

What I wonder is where were this girl's parents? If she were my child she would not have been trying to have a home birth particularly with Wonder Boy in charge.