Mum waits in A&E for hours with dead baby in her handbag.

eddie wrote:

Thorin wrote:

That is not necessarily true they will advise to wait, especially, if they have heavy bleeding that continues.

I can tell you, that heavy bleeding and body parts are very much a part of a miscarriage and unless there's any sign of infection or other obvious complications, you have an early miscarriage at home.
There's nothing to be done.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

She might ask the woman at the reception desk to hold the dead fetus for safe-keeping ... there is after all a chain-of-custody issue should it become evidence.  Then just walk away and sit down.

Most American hospitals have a small morgue in the cellar.  That, at least, was my intention.  The Emergency Ward makes as much sense for a dead baby, as the Physical Therapy or Radiology Department.

You can't just walk into a morgue though, any more than you just walk into a radiology department. The women might have needed medical attention herself.

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

You can't just walk into a morgue though, any more than you just walk into a radiology department. The women might have needed medical attention herself.

All I'm saying is grant each need it's proper place.  If the mother is alive and needs emergency assistance, the place for her is the emergency ward.  The baby, however, is dead and belongs in a morgue.  

I don't think anyone is questioning the mother's need for emergency assistance if she is sick or injured.  The question is having the dead fetus wait needlessly, like some piece of trash, and all the disrespect for the dead that this implies.