Cleveland, Ohio (Woio) – Many people in the Union Miles area will never be able to forget the day a woman born outside Harvard Deli.

According to the Cleveland police reports, the woman was under the influence of drugs. 19 Investigates the obtained videos taken by a witness showing how it took a team by the first response to bind the newborn baby out of her arms. We want to warn our viewers that these videos are disturbing.

“Cleveland EMS What is the address of your emergency?” asked a 911 sender.

“Hello there, Mrs.,” said Ziad Tayeh. “This lady is outside our shop that only had one child outside.”

“Can you just tell her you have 911 on the phone and we want to check and see if her kids are, okay?” Asked the transmitter.

“She would have been called 911 if she wanted to be in a hospital,” Tayeh replied. “Lady wants to be out and be high.”

Unfortunately, this is just one example of how devastating addiction can be. Ziad Tayeh was at Harvard Deli that night.

“A couple of customers who time continued to come in and said that there is a lady outside with the child who asked for money and at first I am, ok, take food for her,” recalled Tayeh. “They are like, no, no, it’s a newborn.”

So, Tayeh called 911.

“I didn’t become emotional; I was more concerned about saving the child, he said. “A lot went through my head, and I was just hoping that the baby was still alive.”

The 43-year-old woman gave birth to a girl near Harvard Deli in Cleveland in July last year. Tayeh took the movies.

“Let me get the money!” The woman is screaming.

“Okay! Let the child go, says Tayeh in the video. You can’t get high with the child.”

19 Investigations have chosen not to identify the mother.

“You could hear her in the video, I take the money and then dropped the money that the official picked them up and gave it to me that I was like, no, she wants it, give it to her,” said Tayeh. “As, I’m not like, I should not, who, act as if I cheated her for the money.”

Reports say the mother didn’t even realize she had born until hours later. She was arrested for children’s danger and drug equipment but was later released and was not accused.

“A whole lot of things go through your head and then like, but when the baby started crying I am, thankfully, I did the right thing,” Tayeh said. “I mean, I did the best I could and the child is good.”

The doctors said that the girl was full time and had no serious injuries, but not all children born to dependent mothers are so happy.

Metrohealth’s director of Mother Child Depency program Dr. Jessica Pippen says the risks start in the uterus.

“There is an increased risk of a condition called growth,” explained Dr. Pippen. “This is where the child may be less than expected can also contribute, depending on the subject, to a condition called placental brow, and even you can see an increased risk of stillbirth when someone is affected by substance use. When you look at opioids, the child may Experience neonatal opioid outlet syndrome. ”

In Westlake, another worrying example of impact dependent on mothers and infants in Cuyahoga County.

“A nurse from Metrohealthcare said she was walking her dog and heard the baby crying and saw the child lying in the grass at a tree there as from there and crying,” said an officer in a body camera video.

“Baby is sure? Mom is sure? “Asked another officer.

“Yes,” the official replied. “Mom is a self-told IV drug user.”

In June last year, Westlake police were called to West Spring Inn on Sperry Road about a woman who had born in a hotel room. A NICU nurse stopped happening at the hotel and found that the 42-year-old woman went out on the lawn with her newborn lying face down in the grass.

“I thought she had a dog at first because she held something similar, bent, and then my dog ​​just started walking as a berserk,” the nurse told officers. “I am like what is what sticks in the air and the child’s face was down in the grass and its butt was up like this and the child cried, and she was out like a light.”

“Mom was?” asked an officer.

“Yes, I screamed, wife, wife, screamed at her, and she didn’t even go and then I went with her,” said the nurse. “I didn’t want my dog ​​to jump on her. So some other guy held my dogs while I pointed to her and then I saw that the umbilical cord was still connected to the baby. “

Mother and children were taken to the hospital, and they were thankfully both okay. The child’s father was arrested at the scene because he had an order for a violation of trial for drug trafficking and murder.

According to data from the Ohio Department of Health – 4,800 pregnant women were diagnosed in Ohio with drug use at delivery. In 2018, the number increased to 5,500.

“I would say that the biggest trend we focus on right now is the transition to the really higher power opioids,” Dr. Pippen. “If you remember back to the end of the 1990s, most opioide epidemic was focused on prescription medicines and we saw many pill mills appear, many of them were in Ohio and then you saw a transition from prescription opioids to heroin, and then we saw we A large increase in fentanyl and other very potent synthetic opioids and you know that it is something of a challenge. Our knowledge of the management of synthetic abuse of opioids is limited and therefore we are just starting to catch up to find out how we better address that challenge. “

Despite the challenges and stigma in society, says Dr. Pippen that there is hope.

“When individuals come to us recently in the recovery journey, they come with a lot of debt, a lot of fear,” Dr. Pippen. “We see this as a medical condition that you would see diabetes or chronic hypertension and so that you know that no one develops these conditions because of something necessarily as they did, or that there is something in itself wrong with them. You know, substance use disorder can affect anyone, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like. “

In our next report in this series, we will introduce you to a young woman who overcame her addiction thanks to a unique program for pregnant women and mothers created by MetroHealth.

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