CPS Took Their Newborn Following Normal Bruising After a Breech Birth, Now the Parents Are Speaking Out

Jaime and Ryan Rose with their older daughter Armani and baby Ariana whose routine bruising from a breech birth prompted Child Protection Services to take their children. Photo taken August 2021. Photo courtesy of Jaimie and Ryan Rose

When Jaimie Rose and her husband Ryan found out they were expecting their second child in January of 2020, they decided to move from Georgia to Florida. Then, before the first trimester was over, COVID hit.

“I started to panic,” Jaimie, 33, remembers. “How are we going to have a birth in the hospital?”