Father Says Hospital Kept Him From His Newborns To Accommodate Beyonce’s Delivery

January 8, 2012 11:57 PM

US singer Beyonce (R) and her husband US rap singer Jay-Z (L) watch the men’s final match between Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Sweden’s Robin Soderling in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium, on June 6, 2010, in Paris. The couple are now the proud parents of a baby girl. (credit: BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Some hospital patients are fuming, saying the birth of Beyonce‘s and Jay-Z‘s baby girl, Ivy Blue Carter, kept them from seeing their own newborns in intensive care.

Lenox Hill Hospital says because of privacy issues, they cannot confirm that Beyonce gave birth there Saturday, but reports indicate the singer and her husband Jay-Z rented out a $1.3 million suite at the hospital and had a baby girl.

A father of premature newborn twins says hospital security kept putting the hallway on lockdown to accommodate Beyonce’s visitors, keeping him, his wife, and their families either locked in or out of their rooms for up to 20 minutes at a time.

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Neil Nash-Coulon of Bedford-Stuyvesant says the hospital even kicked his family out of the waiting area.

“They should have been more strategic with where they put her. You can’t cordon off the NICU. These are small newborns who need care and you’re just going to take over the hospital like you own it?” he said.

The Hospital told CBS 2 that lockdown for a patient is not uncommon and is usually done for safety reasons.

However, the Hospital was not ready to comment on specific measures taken this weekend.

The father, Coulon, says he wants an apology.

Have a birthday message for Ivy? Leave it in our comments section below…

RS

Pathetic! Another case of how these celebrities forget where they came from. And yet another case of how establishments will be so easily bribed. Because that’s what this was.
oldwolf49

the rich are better than us don’t ya know.
The Realist

I’m still shocked that the media are covering the “other parents, other babies” angle. Jay-Z is influential enough to get anybody’s broadcast or publishing licenses revoked, and he won’t be shy about using his pull to get revenge over this angle of reporting.
prolly was diddy…

…who got dissed. jes sayin, yo.
G

Sadly MONEY overrides EVERYTHING…
fed up

is she living in the real world what makes her baby so special that others cant see there own children ? rediculous .. somone needs to slap that bitch into reality !

Reality Check

Unfortunately your comment is the fantasy world where everything is fair. The real world allows such a thing. Money speaks power. That B is living reality. Was it fair? Absolutely not. Because of this, I will no longer support her music but the real world is harsh indeed!

jigga man

This is total bull the parents can get to their babies YOu have 2 people who are trying to go where they cannot go.They have access to there children they just have to go TO THE LEFT TO THE LEFT .

liz

Totally ridiculous! Could have put their money to better use! Such nonsense.
Oh well, pretty predictable – but really selfish and stupid.

JomoDaMusicMan

are u suggesting that Jay Z should have had an open ward where any and everybody could come & view their child & possibly profit from taking unauthorized pictures or maybe steal the child & hold for ranson. when u said totally rediculous your are absolutley right U ARE TOTALLY REDICULOUS & STUPID

Keep-It-Real

Jomo you are the stipid one – Who will profit from this the parents and seel a picture for $$$$$$$$$$$ – You bet dummy – And does all of this mean that someone still can’t kidnap the child and hold it for ranson – You along with those two dummies need a dose of reality!
Helen G Thomas

If they were that concerned, maybe a home birth would have been better. 1.3M would have tricked out an ob/gyn state of the art birthing room right there in their own home. Then they wouldn’t have to deal with the common folk.
Another classic example of 21st century let them eat cake….

Heidi

Oh but then they couldn’t have had their scheduled c-section. seriously?? Having a baby must have interfered with her schedule so she decided to have major surgery with countless risks to her child just so she wouldn’t be inconvenienced with labor. Un-freaking believable. I wasn’t a fan before and I am definitely not a fan now.

Mother of 2

That’s what I’m sayin’ too… if there was a scheduled C-section, they should have moved the other patients to other hospitals in anticipation of the lock-down, not separated them from their parents. Some of these little ones’ lives are hanging by a thread and the sound and smell of their Mommy could buy them more time. It’s not like it was a few hours… I’m thinkin’ close to a day or more…. totally unacceptable… can you imagine losing the ability to nurse your baby altogether because of something like this? I would file a lawsuit in a half second.

uhoh

The anti christ has entered the world

Vernon Hell

666

Richard Lawsonjr

Good luck JZ.
Richard Lawsonjr

Good luck JZ I hope you have many more.
jermal

didnt JayZ like brutally stab someone….crime does pay kids…
Shea

Only in America that Beyonce and Jay-Z could paid $1.3-million to rent out the entire fourth floor of the hospital and the hospital agree this was the best way to make money. What about the other patients and mothers who gave birth to their children. What about doctors who were on call and mandated to give in cell phones and the doctors who were barred from the floors from checking win with their patients. If Beyonce and Jay-Z were so worried about people knowing about this delivery, they could have delivered the baby in their home and have the best of the best at their whim. Im sorry, I think that is just a little selfish on her part and the hospital part to allow that to happen.

Keep-It-Real

This hospital should be fined $10 million or be shut down – By allowing vital staff to turn in cell phone and pagers everyone was put into a tremendous amount of risk! Someone needs to be held accountable for this !

Not the Baby Daddy

It’s not just about the cell phones. Remember that ONLY Beyonce’s doctors and nurses were allowed on that floor, so nobody would have been allowed to treat any other baby in case of an emergency.

millz

Congratz to both jay & beyonce… It really is nobody’s business if the baby came from beyonce or not. As for the whole hospital floor being rented out I am sure it was planned months ago, and none of the patients were complaining. Uncle Tom your an ignorant racist s.o.b. Who needs to get a life.
susan

wow..some real beyonce lovers and haters have commented here..whether the baby was (as some have said)conceived and delivered by a surrogate, or beyonce actually cariied and delivered her child, congratulatipns to the new parents..i have never heard of “renting” a whole floor of a hospital for any patient, no matter how rich or famous.it would seem for privacy and security, an undisclosed location that was very small would have served the purpose..this article makes the hospital seem greedy and other patients needs overlooked for money…

Really???

while I am happy for the new parents. it seems as though the hospital could have provided security as well as safety to the Carters without renting the enitire floor. Why were a dozen rooms renovated for their arrival and stay??? It seems toooo over the top. Shame on that hosipital for allowing this to take place….MONEY!!!

edisha emmanuel

Happy birthday baby ivy welcome to the world
princeton1991

It was up to the hospital administration to figure out in advance whether problems among patients would possibly arise on the floor, not the new born or the parents. After all, the hospital gladly took the money.
Chana

a friend just had twins at Lennox Hill in NYC. They are in the NICU and she is not being allowed to see them. Why? Because Jay Z & Beyonce rented the whole floor and no one else is being allowed access. She has contacted media outlets and they are ignoring it. Spread the word… Maybe someone can help fix this outrageous situation!

The Realist

The media outlets aren’t going to touch that because Jay-Z has enough influence to get their broadcast or publishing licenses revoked.

Iysisrose

People just love to cook things up for one I am a mother of two babies and for both I was able to wear heels and in pictures people didn’t notice I was pregnant. Beyonce has also always been private about her personal life we just saw one picture of her wedding recently and she never spoke about her relationship with jay-z so why would she talk about something more private like her pregnancy. People need to understand that she doesn’t need the publicity or money from selling her baby shower or pregnancy pictures because she is popular and rich. Congrats to them
sandra allen

Congradulation! Baby ivey blue carter on coming into this world. Beyonce,i will never believe you gave birth to this child. You were too secretative with this pregnancy. What happen to february birth?
Roberta LLoyd

Congrats to Baby Ivy. When something is done in such a shroud of secrecy it makes you wonder if the truth lies somewhere else. I agree with the comment comcerning a women’s metamorphisis during pregnancy. I am a mother of 3 boys (17, 24, 28). each time i was pregnant you could tell not just from the baby bump but there were tell tale signs throughout my entire body including my feet. I wish i could put on my high heeled shoes but I couldn’t. And SHAME ON YOU Lenox Hill Hospital for playing into this farce. I guess money can buy anything and anyone!!!
LAY-Z

Free cheese and grape soda foe everyone!!!!!!!!
sandra allen

This sure was a quick prenancy, why would anyone want to fake something so natural and precious that god gives to each woman on earth….. Whoever gave natural birth to baby ivey carter congradulations! On a successful healthy baby girl… I don’t believe beyonce carried a child in her stomach for nine months. We never say her stomach in the flesh, her nose did not spread, her feet were not swollen, her face was not fat, her neck did not have a fat black wring around it, her fingers did not swell, and she always looked the same in the media… I’m sorry beyonce, but real true ladies who are pregnant are not secretative with caring a child. They have baby showers, they take pictures of their belly with the black line going down the center of their stomach, their husbands are present in the delivery room filming, taking kodak pictures, & videoing their first born. None of these special sequence did’nt take place for you. Mariah carey, jessica simpson, alecia keys, jennifer hudson, fantasia, & even the camera lady on the wendy williams show all had body metamorphsis changes. Plus, they were happy to let the world see them pregnant! Beyonce, I am a mother of two kids & I know what a real woman looks like who is caring a child. Good luck on your adoption mother hood.

Stupid Sandra

You need a sllap in the face! I feel sorry for you dirt bag
Sandra Allen’s An IDIOT

Um, did you ever see pictures of Victoria Beckham pregnant? She doesn’t ever gain an ounce or appear to endure all the “signs” of a pregnancy and she did indeed deliver FOUR children. Every woman is different when it comes to pregnancy. Those “signs” you mentioned do not occur for every woman, so give the world a break and shut your mouth.
not the same Sandra!

what a totally ignorant comment you left! and by the way “God” is always spelled with a capital G!

Coco

Our life is driven by total unconscious craziness. All the logical part in our brain just died long ago.If she will decided to give the birth of her child in total seclusion in her own home for $100 000 mostly,one million should go for charities of her choice in the celebration of a new human life.These people absolutely do not honor-respect money value and with no moral code–they just play God….just sad how far selfishness may go….