LI dad says infant son is fighting for his life in NYC hospital after a botched circumcision: He looks like hes been through war

A Long Island dad says what should have been a routine circumcision for his newborn son in a New York City hospital has left the little guy fighting for his life.Cole Jordan Groth was born on March 31 at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital — although he was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease, he was otherwise healthy — and scheduled to go home with his parents to meet his two-year-old older brother at their Long Island house in Lake Grove on April 16.Two days prior, the doctors called Tim Groth, and his wife Gabrielle, asking if they wanted to have their son circumcised, and what transpired turned into a “parent’s worst nightmare,” Groth, 35, told The Post Monday.Within a few hours of the common procedure, the infant nearly bled to death, started having seizures and suffered damage to multiple organs, the dad said.When his wife came to the hospital to go over her son’s discharge the next day on April 15, she discovered the baby boy was “pale, screaming and despondent,” Groth said.“It’s just horrible,” he added.Over the next 10 days, Cole had to receive blood transfusions daily and had multiple surgeries — including one on his stomach since parts of his intestines had failed due to the blood loss.The boy, who remains in critical condition, was put on a respirator, given pain medications, has a colostomy bag to go to the bathroom and is receiving all his nutrition intravenously, Groth said.“He looks like he’s been through war,” the dad added.“He’s pale, vascular … you see the hole in his stomach for the ostomy bag.

Part of me is really angry.“All of it was so avoidable and so unnecessary.Part of me is really sad.

My son is obviously suffering … you wouldn’t wish this on your worst enemy.”The father filed a grievance with the hospital searching for answers.He explained that his son’s bleeding was discovered by a nurse around 2:30 a.m.on April 15 but it wasn’t until after 5 a.m.

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