In the days following giving birth, new moms are not even close to being at their best. Depending on how rough an experience it was, we are often at the mercy of the hospital staff and very dependent on them. Hospital staff training and procedures need to be followed and enforced. Without knowing this hospitals procedures I can’t bash them too hard, but it is the nurses duty to follow whatever security procedures that are in place. In my hospital, bands were matched EVERY time an infant was moved to a mother’s room. When the mother expressed her concern, that nurse should have immediately checked the bands! The mother in this case could have done so when she picked the baby up. In our hospital there was a band on the wrist as well as one on the ankle along with a monitor so that the baby couldn’t be removed from the hospital without triggering alarms and an immediate shut down. Personally, I would have checked the bands myself and after confirming my suspicions made a complaint about the nurse on the spot!!