Quote Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero View Post
Understandable. I don't know if the procedures are the same all over the world, but I do know that in the United States, and in California, a plastic bracelet is used, as well as a chart and label on the infant bassinet. The only ink applied to the children might be if the parents want the infants footprint. They also prick the bottom of the foot to check the blood. As far as I know, no ink is applied to the child's arm. Identifiers are bracelets and charts.
I hear ya, my four kids got a plastic ankle bracelet, no tatoos or anything.

Aren't your hospitals private, which would mean to me that not all procedures or processes are federally or state mandated and regardless, even a tiny procedure such as putting a number on a babies wrist with non permanant ink or feltpen might be something that the nursing unit at this hospital just does - not that I'm necesarily sticking to this idea, but I think it's plausable.