Hospital blamed in newborn's near-drowning

Hospital blamed in newborn's near-drowning
By Colleen Jenkins, Times staff writer
In print: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
TAMPA — Robin Lumley, childless, overweight and unmarried at 46, arrived at an emergency room 2 1/2 years ago complaining of terrible abdominal pain.

Nurses documented her symptoms and a doctor ordered tests. When Lumley said she needed to use the restroom, they let her go.

A short while later, the medical staff at University Community Hospital in Carrollwood found that she had delivered a 6-pound baby girl into the toilet.

Lumley didn't even know she was pregnant, an attorney says.

But Harold "Tripp" Sebring III claims the medical staff should have. Because it missed obvious signs of labor, he says, Lumley's baby almost drowned.
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