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Beyonce and Jay-Z security complaint response

By Eleanor Harley Jan 11, 2012, 13:06 GMT

Beyonce and Jay-Z\'s baby arrival causes a stir at Lenox Hill Hospital. Copyright by Andrew Evans / PR Photos

Beyonce’s baby Blue Ivy Carter made her way into the world on Saturday night at Lenox Hill Hopsital but not everyone was happy about her arrival.

New dad, Neil Coulon, spoke to the Daily News about how the disruption in the hospital stopped him from visiting his newborn premature girls.

38-year-old Coulon stated that Beyonce and Jay-Z’s private security stopped him from visiting his twins in the neonatal intensive care unit.

The intensive care unit was situated on the sixth floor where Beyonce was having her baby.

At one point, Coulon said the security kicked his relatives out the sixth floor waiting room.

“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU,” said Coulon.

The contractor from Bedford-Stuyvesant went on to say “These are children with problems in intensive care and you’re just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology.”

Coulon claimed he was not the only parent upset by the disarray in the hospital.

“This is the NICU. Nobody cares if you’re a celebrity. Nobody is star-gazing. They just want to see their children,” Coulon ranted.

Coulon’s wife gave birth to premature and underweight twin girls on Wednesday night.

“My wife is just terribly upset. She had a C-section. She gave birth to twins. She is sore. Nobody needs this.”

Coulon said “I know they spend $1.3 million and I’m just a contractor from Bed-Stuy, but the treatment we received was not okay.”

Lenox Hill Hospital issued a press release in response to ‘innacurate news media reports regarding the presence of the Carter family at the hospital.’

“The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate. Our executive suites are available for any patient.”

On the issue of the couple’s security preventing parents from visiting their children in the NICU the hospital said “The family does have its own security detail on site. No security plan that we or the Carters’ security team put in place would have prevented or delayed families from gaining access to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.”

The hospital also stated that so far no families have complained to the hospital about being denied access to the NICU.

Destiny’s Child singer Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z left the hospital with Blue Ivy early Tuesday morning, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed to E! News.