Baby in Yarl's Wood Detention Centre denied milk for 18 hours

[aliblenk]

If you can empathise with a 3-month old baby and her mother left without formula milk from 7pm to 1pm the next day, please have a look at this story and act on it:
boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2008/07/baby-denied-milk.html

thanks, Alison Blenkinsop
Lactation Consultant

[elkiedee]

It's a shocking story, but can you be more specific about what we should do to act on it? Thanks.

[elkiedee]

I thought I'd bump this one so others see it

[aliblenk]

Thanks Elkiedee. I posted a link in my first message, so you can read the story. At the end are my contact details, so you can send a message to me to pass on. Alternatively, you can contact your MP. See Morgan's post in the Breast and Bottle feeding thread which starts Complain to your MP.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/1364/578171

Thanks, Alison
www.linkable.biz

[PortAndLemon]

Have you thought about setting up a Facebook group on this?

[mamadiva]

This is the second one abut Yarlswood that I've read. This polace needs to be shut down!

[edam]

Did you have another thread on this? Think I posted somewhere that I've contacted my MP...

Agree, the place needs to be shut down. Or, at the very least, mothers and children should not be sent there.

[theSuburbanDryad]

Yarls Wood is beyond a disgrace! As most of you know I've been campaigning with Nursing Matters since the case of Janipher Maseko.

Hope you get the support you need on here Alison.

[wannaBe]

if this is true why is there no mention of it in the media?

[theSuburbanDryad]

There never is, wannaBe. I wish that I could say this was an isolated incident.

[edam]

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[elkiedee]

bump again

[CarGirl]

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[Boysboysboys]

Jesus, we have gone back 100 years, locking children up with their parents. It makes me so ashamed to be British.

[ruty]

oh god how frightening for the mother and how awful for the poor baby. A terrible abuse of basic human rights.

[Pannacotta]

This is awful, find it hard to understand how this can be allowed to happen.
SDryad how are you getting on with your campaigning?

[theSuburbanDryad]

It's difficult - I can't talk about a lot of it!!

Please, write to your MP - it's about all we can do at the moment.

[theSuburbanDryad]

Those of you who wanted proof - here are the notes from Yarl's Wood. Here's Morgan's blog on it.

[theSuburbanDryad]

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[JKGrowling]

oh dear god, i had no idea about any of this.
no idea at all.
this needs to be highlighted in the media.
what can we do?

[theSuburbanDryad]

Write to your MP, make a fuss. Let them know that you - as a constituent - are not happy, and this needs to be raised as an issue in the House of Commons.

Morgan's blog has a link on it where you can find your local MP's email address.

[edam]

I've written to my MP who is jolly good about raising matters on behalf of constituents. Hoping I hear back soon (although it's the recess now, obviously).