New mom on butt break tough to smoke out

[SoCalDem]

New mom on butt break tough to smoke out
Boston Herald - 5 hours ago
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=73350

New mom on butt break tough to smoke out
By Brian Ballou
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

A prolonged cigarette break Sunday evening by a Dudley woman who had just given birth at a Southbridge hospital triggered an intense search for her whereabouts. Harrington Memorial Hospital staff scoured the hospital and administrators called state police, who joined the search. But the mother in question had simply run into a friend while on her smoke break and the two sat and ate and chatted for hours in a dining area, oblivious to the frenetic search being carried out.

``What started the search was the fact that she said she would be back in five minutes,'' said spokesman Bernard Kingsley. ``Obviously, they didn't look everywhere.'' The mother had taken several brief breaks earlier in the day, so the lengthy absence caused concern among the staff. The search ended when the mother returned to her room. Kingsley said the hospital staff did not ponder the possibility of child abandonment, but were worried she had gotten lost. ``It was dark and cold outside.''

[Demit]

1. They scoured the hospital but didn't bother with the cafeteria?

Oops.

[MissMillie]

5. Imagine.... I've had surgery in this hospital

But when I was there the only thing they lost were my clothes.

[nuxvomica]

2. This sounds like The Onion

Or history's slowest news day.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Wow, a new mom who's been outside for a number of cigarette breaks

already on her first day after giving birth.

How special.

And then she found a friend and, instead of saying to friend, "Hey - I had a baby - would you like to see?" she just sat there and chatted for a few hours, smoking away...

There's a winner.

[SoCalDem]

4. Next stop.... someone will report her to Family services

It must not have been her first baby.:(

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Sometimes I wonder if they should...

I look around at some of the people in the hospital having kids and I think, "If it were legal to take the baby away now, we could save that child from a life of shit and help him/her grow up into a wonderful adult, and probably save the taxpayers a lot of money in the longrun on prison time, court time, social services time, and medicare or social security or whatever takes over to provide medications/institution time for the poor thing after the parents misfeed it, mistreat it, and mis-raise it."

Not to say that we need do so automatically for children of smokers, not by any means, but this thread made me think of that.

[DS1]

6. Yeah, in a Civilized medical environment, they'd have a negative

pressure hose connected to everyone's bedrail, so we can smoke inside like decent, respectable people :eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Absolutely!

With a vacuum pooper-picker-upper so we don't even have to get out of bed to go to the bathroom if we're smoking.

I just don't get the "let's have kids but still smoke" thing. But on the other hand, many of my cousins grew up in smoke-filled houses and they seem to be okay. Hard to tell though.

[DS1]

8. Because any doctor worth his salt would know that when the smoke

stops, the brown starts.