The babies that are able to make it while their mother is high as a kite are at risk of low birth weight, per-term labor, lack of oxygen. These babies’ usually end up in the intensive care unit (ICU) when they are born, so they are given the treatment that they need to survive. Department of Family Services (DFS) also steps in and the baby does not get to go home to their mother and is put in foster care or sent to another family member due to the use by cocaine of the mother and/or father. Once the parents are stable enough and are drug free then there are steps that DFS and the parents have to fallow before the baby can be back with their
The babies that are able to make it while their mother is high as a kite are at risk of low birth weight, per-term labor, lack of oxygen. These babies’ usually end up in the intensive care unit (ICU) when they are born, so they are given the treatment that they need to survive. Department of Family Services (DFS) also steps in and the baby does not get to go home to their mother and is put in foster care or sent to another family member due to the use by cocaine of the mother and/or father. Once the parents are stable enough and are drug free then there are steps that DFS and the parents have to fallow before the baby can be back with their