This maybe a stupid question, but I'd like to know. I can't imagine the print staying the same from a baby to adulthood(?).
2007-05-19 16:51:03 · 12 answers · asked by plumdacat 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
The footprints are taken for identification purposes. The foot print does not change with age, it is just like a hand print. The problem with taking a baby’s hand print is that the fingers are really small and you will have to zoom them to get a clear print.
They are also sent to the state where they are filed along with the original birth certificate. Not every state requires to have footprints to issue a birth certificate but many states still do.
Here is an piece from an article:
In recent years, however, the print media, including several medical journals, have expressed the opinion that hospitals waste time and money by footprinting newborns. To support their arguments, the authors of these articles point out that delivery room personnel do not take consistently legible infant footprints suitable for identification purposes. One article cited a study in which footprints were obtained from 20 newborns at 5 different nurseries with techniques known to provide maximum detail. An unidentified "police dermatoglyphist" examined the footprints. This print identification expert found 89 percent to be technically inadequate for identification purposes, with only 1 percent possessing sufficient ridge detail for positive identification. The article concluded by stating that the typical health care professional is not fully aware of "...how unreliable footprints of a newborn happen to be for purposes of identification."1 In a 1988 publication, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) stated that "...individual hospitals may want to continue the practice of footprinting or fingerprinting, but universal use of this practice is no longer recommended."2 Both organizations based their findings on studies that demonstrated that the majority of infant footprints taken by hospital personnel prove inadequate for identification purposes
2007-05-19 20:53:16 · answer #1 · answered by Natalia D 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2016-11-16 23:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Why do they make footprints of babies when they are born?
This maybe a stupid question, but I'd like to know. I can't imagine the print staying the same from a baby to adulthood(?).
2015-08-06 05:26:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a way of IDing the child. We all have personal footprints. And the fingers, I suppose, are harder to handle. So, footprints are taken. Makes sure the child goes home with the right parents.
2016-03-22 17:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, hospitals do not take footprints for any other reason than a keepsake for parents. Unless their some backwoods place, they have sensors and tags that they put on the baby via umbilical stump that sounds an alarm should a baby be taken off the maternity floor.
2007-05-19 17:11:29 · answer #5 · answered by Christie R 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To ID them. The footprints themselves stay the same, the foot gets bigger. Say a baby is stolen from the hospital, the footprints can help identify the baby if found, worse case scenario, sorry!
2007-05-19 16:54:12 · answer #6 · answered by punkin_eater26 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its to take a signature to make a slavery bond.
2016-12-02 20:06:39 · answer #7 · answered by martin 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For identification and as a momento of the occasion - those tiny feet grow so fast!
2007-05-19 16:58:03 · answer #8 · answered by Cat375 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Its a cute little momento. It is fairly unusable for identification, however.
2007-05-19 17:14:23 · answer #9 · answered by TotalRecipeHound 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
so why did they stop doing that . and they have not done it for many years now.
2015-10-22 14:25:35 · answer #10 · answered by Jeanne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋