Hospital visit escalated out of control

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DH here in need of advice. Apologies for epic post.

DC is month old and yesterday DW was concerned they were feverish and had a small mark on their arm. She phoned NH24 to be safe and her and baby were brought in for observation.

The fever was put down to the hot weather (all vitals are normal) and one of the nurses observed baby sucking it's arm which produced another small mark same as first.

We assumed the mystery was solved. all other tests were normal and baby was by all other accounts healthy. So assumed mum and baby would be home today...

Mum was informed as baby had a mark they were informing SS and today they've had numerous consultants but nobody is informing us when we can go home.
There's been suggestion someone fron SS could need to stay with us for a few days!!!

Does this seem ridiculous to anyone???!! On the balance of evidence:

• we self admitted to the hospital (not neighbours phoning over a domestic but our concerns)
• the mark had reasonable explanation as witnessed by 2 nurses
• baby has no other marks and is otherwise healthy confirmed by nurses (so no evidence of a pattern of abuse)
• baby has been visited by health care professional/midwife every 3 days since birth (stabilising feeding routine was a battle). These professionals have observed baby closely and would've reported anything untoward surely?

So this is one isolated mark, which is getting blown out of proportion.

Mum is upset and in constant tears. She's not being well updated and feels she's being punished for trying to be a good mum and report her initial worries.

If I wasn't so annoyed I'd find it hilarious. What happened to common sense? Appreciate any words of wisdom.

Thanks

"I'm not suggesting that you are a risk, OP, just that by their logic you are being investigated as a potential risk (understandable) so the baby is being monitored in hospital, whilst you are totally unsupervised with the other child!"

Well, I know of a teenager that was removed from her home due to SS believing it unsafe for them. In the few weeks it took for courts and removal etc, not a single SW visited or even phoned to see if the teen was still OK, or indeed still at the address... or alive... On top of it all, there is a 7 yo living in the house as well, who isn't under SS... all very odd

I think I can see what's going on and frustrating as this is it is just a delay in communications that happens in hospitals because everyone is busy with more than one patient's case.

The ward are waiting to hear from SS who haven't got back to them. There will then be a discussion between paediatrician and radiologist about the xrays and whether necessary. If they are then that will have to be arranged. A skeletal survey as is done in cases like this is a legal procedure that must have two radiographers and an member of staff from the ward, it can take an hour or more to do, so all those staff and rooms have to be arranged. Then the results would need to be discussed before decision to discharge is made.

I agree it isn't the best use of resources when a child is well and a bed is taken up, but obviously sicker patients take priority with staff time and your child is safe until all relevant people have decided whether further investigation is needed.

It must be hard but try to be patient, calm and co-operative during the nightmare and hope it is resolved soon.

It's protocol to refer to ss, the delays will be down to urgent cases elsewhere, they know your dd is safe as in hospital. Try not to worry, they will not take any action unless they have concerns