In the Interest of R.B.S.

Beier, J.:

This appeal from a child in need of care (CINC) adjudication requires us to review the propriety of a newborn’s removal from the care of his parents before they took him home from the hospital. His parents challenge the district court’s explicit reliance on the previous death of the newborn’s older brother at the age of 5 months.

R.B.S. was bom on January 31,2001, at Cushing Memorial Hospital in Leavenworth. His parents, P.S. and L.S., had not made prior arrangements to deliver R.B.S. at Cushing, and L.S. had received no prenatal care. The couple lives in Atchison, but they chose to…