{"id":208285,"date":"2022-01-26T00:28:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/we-were-robbed-of-our-bonding-and-closure-time-families-say-covid-protocols-kept-them-from-seeing-newborns-for-days"},"modified":"2022-01-26T00:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:28:59","slug":"we-were-robbed-of-our-bonding-and-closure-time-families-say-covid-protocols-kept-them-from-seeing-newborns-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/we-were-robbed-of-our-bonding-and-closure-time-families-say-covid-protocols-kept-them-from-seeing-newborns-for-days","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We were robbed of our bonding and closure time&#8217;: Families say COVID protocols kept them from seeing newborns for days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly two years since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the world as we know it, impacting nearly every aspect of life. Young families right here in West Michigan say hospital safety protocols against the virus kept them from seeing and holding their babies for days after they were born. While parents in Spectrum Health facilities who test positive for COVID just prior to giving birth are typically allowed to stay with their children after birth, the current rules seemingly change if your newborn needs to be placed in the NICU. In those instances, families tell FOX 17 they are being told they must wait 10 days after a positive COVID test before they can physically be with their child. &#8220;It was hard to wrap my head around it, and I just thought that there was no way that it could be true,&#8221; Kara Bennett told FOX 17 this week. She tested positive for the virus right before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly two years since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the world as we know it, impacting nearly every aspect of life. Young families right here in West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,232,59,60,230,55],"class_list":["post-208285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-family-relationships","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-relationships","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}