Another breastfeeding mother removed from her baby - please read this and email if you can!

[theUrbanDryad]

here

i have to go out now, but will check back in on this later. thanks.

[theUrbanDryad]

bump

[Greensleeves]

Jesus

[runnyhabbit]

omg and so for the mother

and they wonder why bf rate are so low

[theUrbanDryad]

please, please take a minute to email the people suggested. the family will probably never get their baby girl back, but it might stop it from happening to someone else.

[theUrbanDryad]

bumping again

[stripeymama]

Fucking hell

Have emailed.

[Unfitmother]

How

[Lulumama]

fucking hell

outrageous and barbaric

so, this young girl , who is only 18, is exclusively breast feeding her 5 month old, and yet is considered too immature to care for her baby

surely this is prima facie evidence of her being mature enough?

i would have thought that even if the baby was in danger , removing a breastfeeding infant from its mothers; breast is just wrong on every level..

i hope there was serious, hard evidence to take this baby away, or is it just another case of a young, vulnerable woman being condemned

[theUrbanDryad]

have a look at the blog (the link i posted in the OP) - at the bottom is a post from Miss W's mother, the grandmother of the removed baby. in it she says that Social services became involved after Miss W had a falling out with some of the other girls in ther mother & baby unit she was staying in. these girls then spread rumours about Miss W, which is turn made their way to SS. the crux of the matter seems to be that Miss W agreed to stay at her mother's house, but then left after a row with her mother. She was going to her grandmother's house when SS took the baby from her. this seems like a massive overreaction, and removing a baby from its mother without a court order is not ok.

[stripeymama]

Most often because of homelessness or drug addiction I think.

[hunkermunker]

"Every child matters"?!

Yeah, right.

[theUrbanDryad]

Fio - often it's as a stop gap measure between finding council housing. often it's because the mothers are young and inexperienced and don't - for whatever reasons - wish to stay with their own family. often it's so they can be observed.

anyway, at the time that Mis W's baby was snatched off her, she wasn't in the mother & baby unit, she was living with her own mother. the reason SS seem to have given for removing baby is that Miss W said she'd be living with her mother and she "broke" that agreement. but she didn't move out, she only went to see a friend and then her grandmother. either way, removing a breastfeeding infant in these circumstances is against current government guidelines as the baby was not in immediate danger.

[pyjamagirl]

OMG that is so sad, she dosen't understand her childs needs because she was breastfeeding her

Yet the children up the road from me are constantly jumping in front of cars as they drive past and climbing out of bedroom windows. The world is mad

[edam]

And SWs wonder why they have an image problem...

I can't even begin to image the distress being snatched from his/her mother's arms and dragged off by a bunch of strangers will have caused to this poor baby. So much for 'the best needs of the child are paramount'.

Let alone the poor mother.

[laura032004]

That's almost unbelievable it's so terrible. Can you imagine someone pulling up to you in a street, snatching your baby and driving off? IF that hasn't been exaggerated, then that cannot be legal/right/moral/allowed?



I cannot imagine having DS2 taken from me, and then not expecting to bf him immediately the next time I saw him. It's how we reconnect after being apart.

What a world we live in. They completely miss some children being kept in terrible conditions and harmed on a daily basis, and then do this to other babies. Surely insisting that she should live in the unit would have been enough if they were worried?

[LittleBella]

This sounds like straight kidnap tbh, if they did it wihtout a court order. Surely the police should be involved?

[LittleBella]

SW's don't have a legal right to just nab any kid in the street they feel like, do they?

There must be a court order involved, surely?

[LittleBella]

So how come they didn't prevent a kidnap? There must have been some kind of legal document the SW's could produce to prove they had a right to take the child?

[pipsqueak]

what claptrap . it is illegal to remove child in such circumstances without a court order . i have worked in child prortection for 15years (dont now though) but have never heard of a chid being removed in the circumstanaces described - please dont believe it just becuase it is in a blog doesnt mean it is true - incidentally when i have been invooved in teh removal of babies who are breast fed arrangments have been made for breastfeeding to continue -stil sad for the mum though

[shreksmissus]

Message withdrawn

[theUrbanDryad]

pipsqueak - i happen to know the author of that blog very well indeed, and if you look at the bottom you will see that the grandmother of the baby has commented. there was at least one witness to the incident who has said she was unable to sleep after she saw this happening.

why don't you pop onto the blog and tell the grandmother that her story is "claptrap"?