Lizzie Fletcher: “Let me address this. A young mother sometimes is not sure whether an infant needs to come. I recall a situation where a…”

“Let me address this. A young mother sometimes is not sure whether an infant needs to come. I recall a situation where a young mother came and she gave me, after a few questions, a short history of this infant. She was not sure whether or not that infant needed to come in. At that point, I told her that, no, I think you need to come in immediately. When that child arrived there, it was very, very ill. The gentlewoman is absolutely right that it is very difficult sometimes on a layperson's judgment to define whether a young infant, a very young infant, is truly at a great deal of risk with their health care, and yet it requires health care professionals. So our provision for that gives a lot more protection to those young mothers and young infants.”