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A pair of new mother are planning to sue Brooklyn's Brookdale Hospital for allegedly getting their babies mixed up. Shaquana Brown and Shatiesha Brown, who are not related, both gave birth to little girls on January 31. However, Shatiesha Brown was being monitored afterwards and wasn't allowed to see her baby, Aniya, for 24 hours—during which time, the infant was brought to Shaquana Brown, who said, "I was happy. I was holding her. Her father was holding her. I was breastfeeding her." But then a nurse told her later that the baby wasn't hers (there was also an incident at the nursery window between both Brown families, arguing over the baby) and it apparently took the hospital 30 minutes to find her baby. Shatiesha Brown was also devastated, because little Aniya, having fed on another woman's breastmilk, was rejecting her own mother's milk. Shatiesha Brown's lawyer told WABC 7, "There are so many ways to prevent this from happening and the hospital failed in every way."
New Mothers Claim Brookdale Hospital Mixed Up Babies
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shaquana? shatiesha? did it ever make a difference?
where do they get these names?
Well, given that my mail is constantly mixed with the mail of two other similarly named Asian women in my building (Jeannie... Jenny... Chang... Ching), I don't know that the exact names matter. Perhaps it could have happened with Carol Smith and Carla Smith.
Hey, maybe you got that letter I sent. Jan Cheng said she never received it.
I guess Dwight Shrute was right - mark your baby's foot with a permanent marker in only a way that you can recognize.
Exactly. Do it even matter? You say "Shaquana", I say "Shatiesha". Maybe they share a baby-daddy?
Yeah, totally. It makes no difference whatsoever that cherished children were switched in the hospital. If their names sounded more like people I fraternize with, then it would matter. Not relevant to my interests = not relevant.
Well, not only are the names a bunch of mumbo-jumbo that nobody can understand, but black people also tend to look, talk, and act the same, as well. As far as us smart white people are concerned, they are interchangeable! That's why this story is so hilarious.
I've always been curious as to how zoo workers and lab researchers tell little baby chimps apart...
What's that supposed to mean?
There are custom made 'Boggle' sets with the appropriate syllables....one for boys, one for girls.
Do I buy the "rejected breastmilk" claim by Shatiesha Brown's lawyer? Nope.
Wait - I'm confused... Is this Gothamist or StormFront.org? I'm having a hard time telling the two apart after reading the comments...
Many days, there's not much difference.
thank god my parents (2 of them) named me John. My superiority over "Laquan" started early when my pre-k teacher couldn't pronounce his name and got mine perfectly.
Why do black people do that? Do they want to be different that us?
I'm paraphrasing a TV critic who wrote about Fox's Temptation Island:
"One cast member is named Ytossie (pronounced why-tossy) which is exactly what you want to do to her."
Lately in the news, people are saying that ordinary, everyday checklists can prevent potential lawsuits like these.
Can't wait to see them tell their stories on Maury... and try to find the baby daddies.
this is unacceptable. its doesnt matter if their names were mary ann or mary lou.The hospital should have been more responsible .why do you think they have baby daddies? they can be marry . ignorance i say !!!!
When every other Gothamist reader jumps at the opportunity to use the phrase "baby daddy" or "baby momma", I think it's time to move on...
Hey, I was born at that hospital.
That would explain a lot of things.
No matter what their names are there was no excuse for the switch. Just where is all that money go that health insurance premiums are so high? Obviously not for personnel.
I won't even touch the bull shit about the rejected milk problem.
I guess the only way to solve this situation is like old King Soloman did. They should throw in the lawyer for free.
Any description of the perp who made the switch?