The Jacksons also claim that when officials arrived to their home on March 28 to take their child, the paperwork erroneously named the baby’s mother as another woman — and that the pers…
A Texas couple claim state Child Protective Services took their two-week-old baby, Mila, after a dispute with their doctor about the infant’s jaundice.
When officials arrived at the Jacksons’ Dallas home on March 28 to take the newborn, the couple claims the paperwork erroneously named the baby’s mother as another woman — and that the person listed has a criminal record, according to reports.“Instantly, I felt like they had stolen my baby as I had had a home birth, and they were trying to say my baby belonged to this other woman,” Temecia Jackson said Thursday during a news conference.
The Jacksons took her to a local hospital for a routine checkup three days later and she got a clean bill of health.Mila was born on March 21 at home in Desoto, a suburb of Dallas, with a midwife present. But a doctor at the hospital, who Temecia Jackson said did not see the baby himself, insisted Mila be hospitalized for treatment because he deemed her levels of bilirubin dangerous. Mila’s bilirubin level was dangerously high at 21.7, according to the letter from Dr. Anand Bhatt obtained by “At a bilirubin over 20, a baby risks brain damage, because the bilirubin can cross the blood-brain barrier,” the doctor wrote.
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