discuss this news story i am interested in your views.............

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Nicely phrased altinkum, I agree.

Some basic manners would have been nice.

"My bad"?

Oh relax...fucking hell everyone getting bend out of shape are you all precious rose petals or something?..this is MN don't even try it...

Um odd OP.

But I read the story to DH and he said of course she brought boiling water, when you have you first baby you sterilize everything, she wouldn't assume anyone was dunking her baby's foot in it unless they said as much. Which I pretty much agree with.

The midwife sure as hell should have checked the temp as well. I mean checking bath temp is kind of Baby 101 isn't it? The bowl must have felt very hot when she touched it.

Shitty OP, and an arrogant rude response to that being pointed out.

I do like being told what to do

What was the mum thinking ?

She 'unwittingly' got scalding hot water instead of warm.. Warned the midwife if was hot and then watched her stick her babies foot in it? Really ?

I'm sure the midwife at ultimately at fault but the mum need to take some of the responsibility too.

Intelligent journalism from the Sun, as ever.

Why are we discussing this???

I didn't find this story distressing at all, just mildly irritating. It is a mixture of incompetent midwives and poor communication. It's interesting that she chose to sell her story to The Sun. I would not be comfortable cashing in on my children in this way. It is a non-story as far as I am concerned.
She looks like Catherine Tate made up to look like a person who has sold her story to the Sun.

I also think it's a bit precious to get in a fuss about the story. It isn't as if it is graphic. I get far more upset reading about the things that happen in the big wide cruel and unfair world, in proper papers not the blooming Sun. I encounter people here who don"t even get to live with their babies because it's more important to work as a maid to lazy Brits and send the £100 a month salary home to the Phillipines to feed their families. You people have no idea.

I hardly think i deserved being called a bastard

mumsnet never fails to amaze me...

Jasminetom, that is patently ridiculous. There are starving children in Africa too, better go round all the other threads telling people to stop moaning, eh?

I didn't even click the link, I'm not interested. But i opened the thread to see who the bossy OP was

It is a picture of a healthy baby with a bandage on it's foot. What is there to cry about?

If the water was so hot though, was there no steam?