MaxedOutMama
Thursday, March 31, 2005
We're Here To Help You
Okay, so this poor woman in labor does not make it to the hospital on time. She pulls over at a gas station and gives birth. The owner comes out and actually sees this. She takes off to drive on to the hospital, and the owner calls the cops thinking the woman needs help. But somehow the report gets garbled, and the word goes out that the van she is driving is stolen; that supposedly gets straightened out too.
The baby is still attached by the umbilical cord, and the mother pulls over a few times to check that the infant is breathing; she has the baby in her arms as she is driving. Somehow someone calls in a report that someone is trying to throw a baby from a van. (I doubt this part of the story; I think they are lying.) The cops are following her, and finally they cut her off, draw guns, and order her to leave the van with her hands open. She opens the door and lets them see the situation.
The worst of it? They don't even drive her to the hospital:
The baby is still in intensive care (because if you're a woman, that's what you were wondering all this time - that's what kept me reading.). Somehow the events this article relates seem to embody some thoughts I have been having lately.
The baby is still attached by the umbilical cord, and the mother pulls over a few times to check that the infant is breathing; she has the baby in her arms as she is driving. Somehow someone calls in a report that someone is trying to throw a baby from a van. (I doubt this part of the story; I think they are lying.) The cops are following her, and finally they cut her off, draw guns, and order her to leave the van with her hands open. She opens the door and lets them see the situation.
The worst of it? They don't even drive her to the hospital:
Coleman said she noticed several cruisers following her before one cut her off. With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up.You got that? The woman is driving, while holding a baby she's afraid isn't breathing right attached to her via umbilical cord (placenta not come yet), and the #@%((! don't even tell her to scoot over and drive her the rest of the way. They send her on! What incredible dedication to duty and public welfare!
"I opened the door and said, 'I just had a baby' and just let them see everything," she said.
Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.
The baby is still in intensive care (because if you're a woman, that's what you were wondering all this time - that's what kept me reading.). Somehow the events this article relates seem to embody some thoughts I have been having lately.
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I read the reports also and wondered what the police did, or didn't do, to help her. I can't help but think something is missing. Cops are normally pretty good in situations like that. Maybe she told them she didn't want any help, or they were ordered away?
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