The one where they put the Amber alert out for the fetus of unknown status (who turned up alive and well for all that she'd been ripped from her mother a month early by a fucking psycho) happened while I was pregnant, and gave me nightmares until I remembered that I didn't leave the house or open the door that often. The crazy baby cutting out people had no window of opportunity with me, damn it.

It's much more common to take a baby, but now hospitals have really tightened up the security so that just anybody can't walk into the newborn ward.

In most hospitals, even if you make it in, it's next to impossible to escape with a kidlet.

The kidlets are security tagged, the parents have matching tags, and no one can take the kidlet past a certain point without the matching tag. If one attempts it, an alarm will sound, and I'm pretty certain in our hospital, things were designed to go into auto lockdown. (I'm still fuzzy on the details, on account of having just had a baby when they were explained.)

Of course, hospitals (including ours) are increasingly moving away from the nursery model and towards rooming in.

I was going to pretend to have a way to tie this back into topic, but the nearest I can is by suggesting they should have had a similar system for River.

Our hospital was the same way. We all had tags and Em was Lo-Jacked. Hosp went into auto-shut down if the "barrier" was passed. All doors and everything just locked. Like, Pentagon shut down.

every decade or so

Google tells me there were 2 cases last year. There was one in Nov in Columbia (the mother survived!) and the one in Dec in Missouri.

The crazy baby cutting out people had no window of opportunity with me, damn it.

Yes and thank god. Though, in one of the cases I was reading about, the woman's attacker was her "pregnant" friend. Which is super freaky. Like, do you need to be carrying around an ultrasound machine to verify the pregnancies of those around you?

I remember the Kansas one. I went to her first hearing. She was incredibly pathetic.

So the trial was in Kansas? I know she was caught there but it seems odd when the murder happened in Missouri.

When I was REALLY pregnant, I refused to go outside after dark by myself. I was terrified.

The hearing was an extradition hearing in the Kansas federal court-- IIRC she agreed to extradition to Missouri.

ah. I was starting to wonder if crossing the state line with the kid had some impact on jurisdiction aside from making it a federal case.

So now I'm imagining all these people feeling about my lovely theme song the way I feel about the Enterprise abomination.

and

If I just put him in the 'freak' pile, I won't have to fuck with my worldview.

Wrod. I luuuurve the theme song. And I have listened to the soundtrack for OMWF frequently.

I made my dad stay through the credits last Sunday, just so I could sing. We were the only ones left.

Every. single. time.

edited because I love the music, but apparently can't type.