Alberta mother devastated after receiving the wrong baby remains from Wetaskiwin Hospital

Cara Roan suffered a miscarriage at the Wetaskiwin Hospital at the end of January and afterwards received and buried the remains of another woman's child.

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

“I’m so broken from this,” the Maskwacis woman said Monday.

Roan is a mother already, and knew something wasn’t right when she began spotting a few weeks ago during her fourth month of gestation.

At the end of January she went to the Wetaskiwin Hospital and Care Centre, located just down the road from the central Alberta First Nations community where she lives.

Roan said she said she waited for several hours, was seen by staff and told to return if the bleeding got heavier.

The next day, she said it got worse so she returned to the hospital and once again, waited for hours before being told the same thing.

“They told me the same thing: when you feel a gush, come back.

On that third day, Jan. 28, she returned to the Wetaskiwin Hospital. She said she again sat for hours in the waiting room, having a miscarriage while other patients were being taken in for treatment.