Saturday, March 10, 2007
Police hunt nurse impostor who stole ill baby - CNN
A woman posing as a nurse walked into a baby's hospital room, told her family she needed to take the ill newborn for tests and then stole her, police said Saturday. ... Officers are hunting a 5-foot-3-inch woman seen on security cameras in pink scrubs with purple and blue flowers.
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... the mother was "distraught and devastated, and again, our heart goes out to her."
One of the chief concerns would be the child's nourishment, said Dr. Marc Siegel of New York University's medical school.
"The biggest problem is that babies, within the first three days, need either mother's milk or an electrolyte solution. They can't have cow's milk," Siegel said.
Siegel also said that if they don't get nutrition quickly "there would be a life-threatening problem. Time is of the essence." ...
A woman posing as a nurse walked into a baby's hospital room, told her family she needed to take the ill newborn for tests and then stole her, police said Saturday. ... Officers are hunting a 5-foot-3-inch woman seen on security cameras in pink scrubs with purple and blue flowers.
...
... the mother was "distraught and devastated, and again, our heart goes out to her."
One of the chief concerns would be the child's nourishment, said Dr. Marc Siegel of New York University's medical school.
"The biggest problem is that babies, within the first three days, need either mother's milk or an electrolyte solution. They can't have cow's milk," Siegel said.
Siegel also said that if they don't get nutrition quickly "there would be a life-threatening problem. Time is of the essence." ...
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