What happened to this Mom and her day old baby is scary stuff.

This just upset me so much when I read it. There was absolutely no reason for all this to happen.

Mother Loses Newborn Baby After She Is Wrongly Accused of Being on Drugs

The hospital’s reasons for believing Langwell was on drugs were all conjecture. They said that she was “hostile” when she wanted to check out early, that she packed containers that looked like they held pills, that she and her mother and the baby’s father were all shaky and irritable, and that Langwell refused a drug test while she was in labor (Langwell told Calhoun she was concerned about the cost since they were paying for the hospital out of pocket). In other words, the hospital and CPS declared Langwell to have a substance abuse issue until the point she could prove she didn’t.

Like a growing number of mothers in America, Langwell was guilty until proven innocent.

What Langwell underwent is a growing concern in the United States as mothers are being more strictly examined and children are being removed from homes at a rapid clip. Just as “personhood” style laws are jailing women who are pregnant under the guise of protecting the fetus to ensure a safe and healthy birth, mothers are being scrutinized and examined more closely than ever to protect a baby or child from being harmed by their own parents.

....That was exactly what happened to Langwell, who found CPS at her door the next day to remove her newborn and place the baby with a foster family for the child’s own “safety.” Despite agreeing to an on the spot drug test, which the agency said had “inconclusive” results because her saliva was too thick, CPS took her new baby to a hospital to do a drug test on the infant there, via inserting a catheter. That effort failed.

Langwell had been having contractions for two days when she told her fiancé at 11:30 p.m. that it was time to head to Desert Regional Medical Center, which she'd chosen because it allowed rooming-in and she didn't want the baby to leave her side. Once there, she asked for an epidural, but by the time everything was in place for her to receive one, it was too late. She delivered the baby naturally at 2:34 a.m., and around noon was put in a room with two other new mothers and their babies, including one who Langwell says kept talking loudly on her cellphone.

Later that afternoon, Langwell decided to check out and go home. Langwell said the baby was breastfeeding well and was healthy, and she preferred to take her home early "AMA" (against medical advice) so they could all get some sleep. When she left, a member of the hospital's staff called and reported her to the county's child welfare agency.

"Desert Regional Medical Center takes very seriously its commitment to the health of mothers and infants in our care," Richard A. Ramhoff, the hospital's marketing director, told Cosmopolitan.com, after saying that the hospital could not comment specifically on Langwell's case. "As mandated by state law, the hospital calls the County of Riverside Department of Public Social Services hotline when staff believe the situation warrants a referral. This reporting is not done lightly. Our staff reviews the details of each situation individually before fulfilling our responsibility to refer a case to child protective services for further review."