A mother who accidentally smothered her baby in 2012 has filed a lawsuit against a Portland hospital claiming staff left her alone with her newborn son while under “a combination” of “narcotic painkillers and sleep aids.”
In the $8.6 million lawsuit filed last Friday and obtained by People, Monica Thompson alleges that a nurse employed at Portland Adventist Medical Center transferred her 4-day-old son Jacob from a nursery to her bed so that she could breastfeed him on Aug. 2, 2012.
At the time, Thompson was “heavily medicated,” according to the complaint.
“Jacob suffocated under his mother while she was under the influence of narcotic and sleep aids.
In the $8.6 million lawsuit filed last Friday and obtained by People, Monica Thompson alleges that a nurse employed at Portland Adventist Medical Center transferred her 4-day-old son Jacob from a nursery to her bed so that she could breastfeed him on Aug. 2, 2012.
At the time, Thompson was “heavily medicated,” according to the complaint.
“Jacob suffocated under his mother while she was under the influence of narcotic and sleep aids.
- 8/10/2017
- by Rose Minutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
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