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[quote=Anonymous]I find this anonymous, heated discussion incredibly amusing. Why is it that you people get so fired up when someone disagrees with you on an [b]anonymous[/b] forum? Anyway, while policies like the one being discussed are put in place for safety reasons, they are also a way for the litigation shy hospitals to protect themselves. If someone is discharged without a carseat, or any education about the need for one and they got into an accident, someone in our law-suit crazy society would no-doubt sue. Similarly, the reasons new moms are wheeled out of the hospital holding the babies while in the wheel chair (in or out of a carseat) is because if a baby was dropped, the hospital would be sued. Before anyone questions my expertise, my mother has been the manager of L&D for over 30 years. Obviously, some hospitals may enforce these policies more strictly than others. I delivered at Georgetown. DS was pre-term and a little peanut, so he had to have a carseat stress test where they sat him in the seat, with the base, and monitored his breathing and heartrate. Once we were discharged, DH took both the seat and base to the car ahead of us to reinstall. For all the hospital staff knew, we could have thrown the seat away. No one checked. [/quote]
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