<<The so-called tags are attached to the baby and the mother.
"If the two tags got too far apart or if the infant is moved
without the
parent's tag moving with it, then that would be an alarm
condition and you
could take action from a security standpoint," said Remy.>>

Maurenne, I'm with you - this is a silly high tech solution.  But
I can't help
but like the idea of alarms going off when babies are too far
from their moms
:-)   If hospitals won't change their policies in order to be
baby friendly,
maybe they'll change in order to be less open to litigation -
"rooming in"
security systems could become part of the standard of care.
*And* it is a
chance to use fancy, shmancy electronic toys - perhaps they could
replace some
of the other "necessary" OB equipment (now who is being naive?).

*****The stupid little "tags" are easily cut off, or they fall
off and the personnel don't want to go through the big headache
of changing everyone's so they just leave them to be.  This is
the way it was with my daughter, born 3 mos ago.  They gave me
all of the bracelets and stuff and told me about the stupid
little monitor.  Then I had to wait for 3 hours to get her back
because I was upstairs, and they wanted to make as few trips
upstairs with babies as possible, so my daughter had to wait
until a few more babies were ready to go upstairs (I ended up in
backup postpartum).  I finally had to throw a fit before they
brought her in (once she got upstairs, she had to spend some time
in the upstairs nursery, so that the nurses THERE could observe
her).  That night, she slept in my hospital bed with me, and when
we woke up her little bracelet had come off.  I told the nurse,
who told me that if the bracelet holding the monitor were
replaced, security had to come up and watch, then fill out a
paper, all of our bracelets would have to be replaced, and the
nurse and I would have papers to fill out. She didn't want to do
it, I resolved that my baby was going nowhere without me, so we
slid the monitor bracelet back on.  I just closed the room door
and to use the bathroom, left the bathroom door open so nobody
could sneak into my room without me knowing it.
The stupid monitor was a complete waste, IMO.  When it was time
for us to leave, the nurse just took a pr of scissors and snipped
it off, if someone wanted to steal a baby, they could have done
the same thing, easily.