Breastfed, Homebirthed Babies Taken Away From Parents For Not Using Hospital

[CherryPanda]

All three of their babies have been taken away from them and placed in the care of strangers. Levi was 10 months old when his mother, local singer and songwriter Erica May Rengo, gave birth to his twin brother and sister, at their home in Bellingham, Washington.

“Our birth was glorious,” she said, and the twins were reportedly healthy, full-term babies, who had no problem quickly figuring out how to breastfeed. The little family was overjoyed until CPS stepped in to “help.”

It is another medical kidnapping according to the parents. The Rengos have chosen a wholesome, holistic lifestyle, based in their Christian faith. But CPS has stepped in to override the parents’ decisions. Now Erica and Cleave are living what they call a nightmare, separated from their children for reasons that don’t make any sense at all to them.

Breastfed Homebirthed Babies Taken Away From Parents For Not Using Hospital

This story made me furious. CPS is supposed to protect children in need, and not to violate the people’s right to choose what medical treatment they want to get. Especially, when there’s no danger for the health.

They are crazy, absolutely crazy. And they are criminals for endangering health and life of babies. This CPS care is so successful it gets pneumonia for one of the kids.

Seriously, it’s scary to have children. Because you’re not protected by the government, you are helpless in the face of its power to do whatever they think they want to.

 

[Wake]

Sue these bastards for doing this to them. What, is it now illegal to give birth at home and breastfeed your babies? If they were denying life-saving medicine to their babies that'd be one thing, but where is the harm in giving birth at home? Are women now not allowed to chooses where and how they give birth?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

All three of their babies have been taken away from them and placed in the care of strangers. Levi was 10 months old when his mother, local singer and songwriter Erica May Rengo, gave birth to his twin brother and sister, at their home in Bellingham, Washington.

“Our birth was glorious,” she said, and the twins were reportedly healthy, full-term babies, who had no problem quickly figuring out how to breastfeed. The little family was overjoyed until CPS stepped in to “help.”

It is another medical kidnapping according to the parents. The Rengos have chosen a wholesome, holistic lifestyle, based in their Christian faith. But CPS has stepped in to override the parents’ decisions. Now Erica and Cleave are living what they call a nightmare, separated from their children for reasons that don’t make any sense at all to them.

Breastfed Homebirthed Babies Taken Away From Parents For Not Using Hospital

This story made me furious. CPS is supposed to protect children in need, and not to violate the people’s right to choose what medical treatment they want to get. Especially, when there’s no danger for the health.

They are crazy, absolutely crazy. And they are criminals for endangering health and life of babies. This CPS care is so successful it gets pneumonia for one of the kids.

Seriously, it’s scary to have children. Because you’re not protected by the government, you are helpless in the face of its power to do whatever they think they want to.

Googling around snopes offers some analysis but understandably doesn't really answer the main questions of "why?"
snopes.com Breastfed Homebirthed Babies Taken Away from Parents for Not Using Hospital

Looking around for more, there isn't any, at least not from news sites. Only sites covering it seem to be the anti-vaccination, anti-government, anti-medicine types.

On the surface, declining mainstream medical treatments, homebirthing, and breastfeeding isn't itself grounds for seizing kids. And the mother's treatment options for the rash wasn't by any stretch Christian Scientist-like. Mother running from CPS people wasn't wise though and that IS grounds for seizing the kids.

Find it interesting relatives and friends were the ones who called CPS in the first place. Might be pre-existing mental issues at play they knew about and coupled with unorthodox treatments and avoidance of hospitals added up to something worrisome.

 

[AmericanFirst]

All three of their babies have been taken away from them and placed in the care of strangers. Levi was 10 months old when his mother, local singer and songwriter Erica May Rengo, gave birth to his twin brother and sister, at their home in Bellingham, Washington.

“Our birth was glorious,” she said, and the twins were reportedly healthy, full-term babies, who had no problem quickly figuring out how to breastfeed. The little family was overjoyed until CPS stepped in to “help.”

It is another medical kidnapping according to the parents. The Rengos have chosen a wholesome, holistic lifestyle, based in their Christian faith. But CPS has stepped in to override the parents’ decisions. Now Erica and Cleave are living what they call a nightmare, separated from their children for reasons that don’t make any sense at all to them.

Breastfed Homebirthed Babies Taken Away From Parents For Not Using Hospital

This story made me furious. CPS is supposed to protect children in need, and not to violate the people’s right to choose what medical treatment they want to get. Especially, when there’s no danger for the health.

They are crazy, absolutely crazy. And they are criminals for endangering health and life of babies. This CPS care is so successful it gets pneumonia for one of the kids.

Seriously, it’s scary to have children. Because you’re not protected by the government, you are helpless in the face of its power to do whatever they think they want to.

Big brother. Gov't. intrusion at its best.