STATE: West Virginia - Marijuana is illegal here for non-medical use.
This one's weird, I'm kind of at a loss for what's happened here. My niece went into labor and was taken to a local hospital instead of the one further away that she had been going to up until she went into labor. They had no records or prep time - she walked in and popped out the baby pretty quickly.
Since someone else drove her, I'm pretty sure there was a weed smell in the air when they walked in. I know the guy, he's a good guy, but had smoked weed earlier in the day.
When they got into the room, she started delivering. The nurse then starts screaming at her to "Hold the baby in! do not push it out!" - she wanted to wait for a doctor and didn't want to deliver.
Naturally, the baby came anyway and the nurse had to deliver.
The minute they walked away with the baby, the nurse turns around and whispers in my nieces ear, "I saw that the umbilical chord was plugged up with THC. It was spilling out all over the place." and told her that if she admitted to being a smoker, she wouldn't call CPS and they would just help the baby.
Being a bit naive, and medicated from the delivery (epidural and whatever else they gave), plus the trauma of delivery, she panicked and told the nurse that she was still smoking weed when she found out she was pregnant, which was pretty late into the pregnancy - I'm guessing 3-4 months pregnant.
As you would suspect, CPS rolled in later in the day and is now doing an investigation, wants to search their home over the next week and whatever else that procedure entails.
My general questions - Is the nurse in the wrong to try to make her hold the baby in? Can the nurse lie about the physical health and wellbeing of a baby just to try to squeeze out a weed smoking confession? They made it pretty clear that they hadn't had time to test the umbilical chord, it was immediately after birth that this happened.
Thanks in advance and please let me know if any further information would help.
Written By: LegalThrowAwayTimes
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