"The hospital gave Rani two tablets of Tylenol-3 in the morning and two at night. But she found that the pills made her drowsy, so, on the third day of Tariq's life, she cut her intake to one pill at a time. She and Tariq were discharged from the hospital and went home. Rani, who was thirty-two, had been preparing for motherhood for a long time."
"But, at around 6:30 A. M. on April 29th, he stopped eating. Later that morning, Rani brought him in for a routine pediatric visit. The doctor noted that he was somnolent, but was generally unconcerned. Until that morning, Tariq had been feeding "on average, every three hours," according to his parents, and the pediatrician noted that he had been producing about five wet diapers per day."
A Canadian woman delivered a healthy newborn named Tariq and received Tylenol No. 3 containing codeine after a difficult delivery. She reduced her intake after becoming drowsy and returned home with her thriving son. Within days Tariq became somnolent, stopped feeding, and was seen at a routine pediatric visit where clinicians were initially unconcerned. Parents reported normal wet diapers and feeding every three hours. A telehealth call reported prolonged sleepiness and fluctuating skin color, and an ambulance was dispatched to the family's home. The newborn later died; causation attributed to maternal opioid exposure has been contested.
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