The only thing a mom would want from the hospital she is giving birth at is that her baby will be taken care of. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen with a Nevada mom who had her baby at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus. The mom filmed herself with her newborn baby as a hospital nurse told her about the limits on feeding. Rather than provide the baby with everything she might need, the nurse started telling the mother that she wouldn’t be able to give her a lot of milk. She claimed that other babies needed milk too, and the hospital didn’t have a lot. Then how does the hospital expect to care for everyone it admits?
Of course, the Nevada mom couldn’t believe what she was being told. No mom would want to hear someone denying her baby much-needed milk. “I never imagined I would have to beg to feed my baby,” she wrote in the caption. She clarified that her daughter desperately needed the milk, especially since she is in the PICU and should eat every 1-2 hours. “Always advocate for your baby,” she wrote in the end. She also added in a comment, “I was there for 4 days, and they made it an issue just to bring milk, even though I kept asking and calling. I would wait 20 minutes to get it. My baby was hungry, and the milk in my hand was the milk I had just pumped because they took too long. That’s why I asked them to bring more I had no formula left.”
In another video, the mom also shared that her daughter needed wipes immediately and the nurse simply told her that she would bring her some later. Since she is a Black woman, the mom believes that if she were White, she would have received both the milk and the wipes.
People Reacting to What the Nevada Nurse Said
After seeing the Nevada mom’s video, people were just as shocked as she was. This is why many criticized the nurse for what she said. “She act like the milk came out her check !” one woman wrote. Another woman believed that the mom should have done something more as she said, “REPORT HER. She cannot dictate how much she eats PERIOD.” A nurse even left a comment saying the same thing. “What is she talking about… I’m a nurse and I’m telling you to REPORT her,” she wrote. Apparently, the hospital didn’t care about what happened to the mom. She wrote in a comment, “I asked for a patient advocate, but instead I was rushed to get my discharge papers and only given a manager’s email.”
Some people also believed that the Nevada nurse was being racist toward the mom. “That seem like some discrimination there,” one person wrote. Another person said, “Where do these nurses come from, who tells someone they can’t get bottles for their baby and that the hospital doesn’t have enough milk to provide for babies on the unit. Stop being racist, go work somewhere else.” Someone else claimed that the nurse was lying as they wrote, “I work at the hospital and the hospital had plenty of formula for babies, especially for them type of units. They cannot refuse you formula. Not only that when my sister had my niece, the nurse was giving her so many different things to take home and my niece didn’t even need it at the time.” What she did was definitely wrong.
