Mom delivers premature baby after discharge

[CMF Newsman]

A North Georgia woman delivered her premature baby in her bathroom just hours after leaving the hospital.

Now she wonders if it had to happen there.

Valerie Simpson was designing her first child's bedroom. She had no other complications before the violent pain that sent her to the hospital.

While miscarriage is a very private matter, Valerie hopes her story helps someone else.

Read more: www.wrcbtv.com/story/16583050/woman-delivers-premature-baby-in-bathroom-after-hospital-discharge

[exarmy65]

I saw this morning where she is suing the hospital "in hopes that her story will help one person"

The story has been in the paper all week. Doesn't that help one person? What does the suing do to help other people?

[ssmynkint]

You mean aside from lawyers?

[CMF Newsman]

A Fort Oglethorpe woman has filed a formal complaint with Erlanger Health System after she says she gave birth to a premature baby less than a day after being sent home from the hospital.

The baby, a little girl named Sophia, lived about two hours after she was born at 23 weeks.

"The person who took the complaint told me this should never have happened," Valerie Simpson said. "I'm just hoping my story will help one person [in a similar situation] to push harder until someone listens to her. It could have been avoided if they had taken me more seriously."

Erlanger spokeswoman Jennifer Homa said the hospital could not discuss Simpson's specific case, citing patient privacy laws.

Read more: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/26/woman-files-complaint-with-erlanger-in/