I was just thinking the same. Thank heaven my youngest is now 25! We always had private pediatricians and specialists for her. And because I am a physician too, they would listen to, and discuss my preferences, etc. I would not allow them to use the combined vaccines on her and insisted that they special order the killed virus single disease versions that were much safer back then. Given that she's testing out with an IQ of 151 and her SAT's got her several scholarship offers, I guess we didn't destroy too many brain cells. Of course 25 years back they didn't have the crap in vaccines that they do today - and the earlier versions of single-disease vaccines may not even be available today at any price.

I'd be willing to bet a good deal of money that this woman was on Medicaid, not in a private hospital, and wasn't articulate enough to intimidate some scum-of-the-earth "social worker" who decided "the mother's answers were not good enough". If the woman had only had brains enough to say she was going to "delay" the vaccinations until she and baby were discharged and she could discuss it with her private pediatrician - they would have backed off immediately. Or she could have called the ACLU and gotten legal representation down there immediately and the discussion about her child and the vaccinations would have ended then and there. The poor who don't know how the games are played in the medical world end up getting screwed over by the "system" that was put in place to avoid child neglect or abuse. Sadly now "neglect" is defined as NOT doing what some idiot hospital says you "must" do.

I hope some lawyer contacts this woman and she gets her baby back and then they file a lawsuit against the hospital, it's employees, and the PD who assisted in this outrageous and probably illegal behavior!