Mother devastated after receiving the wrong baby's remains from Alberta hospital

For Cara Roan, the grief of miscarriage is compounded by the pain of burying the wrong baby’s remains.

Roan, who was a mother before the miscarriage, knew something wasn’t right when she began to notice spotting a few weeks ago during her fourth month of gestation.

Roan says she visited the Wetaskiwin Hospital and Care Centre multiple times where she was repeatedly told to return if the situation worsened.

On that third day, Jan. 28, Roan says eventually staff told her she had miscarried and there was no heartbeat, and to stop the bleeding she would have to be operated on.

She said they waited a day for the remains, but was told they wouldn’t be released until Feb. 6 because they were being sent away to determine what went wrong.

Roan said she finally received the remains a few weeks later, on Saturday, Feb. 11. She said the hospital told her to bring her I.D. to ensure she got the right remains, which she said she did.

The family drove west to the Rocky Mountains, where they conducted an Indigenous burial ceremony and the remains were laid to rest.

Then, she received a phone call that left her gutted.

“That following Monday, the hospital called me and said, ‘I’m sorry to tell you this, but we gave you the wrong baby.'”

Sarah Komadina has more.

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