To think shops shouldn't charge for 'tiny baby' clothes

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Looking at baby clothes in boots today (i'm sure lots of other places do them). They had tiny tiny vests suitable for 3lb babies that they were charging £8 for! And it had a tag on them that said the front opening for hospital wires. Horrible.

I've just found them online and the hospital wires tag isn't on them, it's now described as:
"Low Birth Weight Jacket features a friendly bear print, a wrapover front and opens flat with soft velcro fastenings to the front and sleeves to make dressing the little chap much easier."

If you 3lb baby is so ill in hospital it has tubes and wires, It's criminal to charge £8 for something for them to wear!

Exactly- you pay for all the disbursements to others, which mean you are paying for the coffin, gravedigger, any cars, flowers, etc

You aren't given those for free so I don't get the comparison with getting baby clothes for free

The urn cars and flowers were optional.

Exactly- just as buying clothes for a prem baby in hospital is optional- the hospital will clothe the baby in its care. But many parents choose to pay for the optional things because they want to personalise the situation and put their mark on it in some way

Exactly?

i'm sorry. are we actually, seriously, comparing buying clothes to having a funeral for a baby????

i mean just, wtf?

What the fucking hell is going on here?

Has this place finally gone nuts?

And this is why I hate AIBU.

People think it's ok to blithely post about the 'gravedigger' at the funeral of a beloved and much missed child.

Have some respect donthateme! Aibu doesn't excuse you of exercising some basic common decency.

YABU to suggest that they be free.

YANBU to suggest they not be extortionately expensive.

HOW did this thread turn into a funeral thread?? Seriously??

OMFG

donthateme do you not realise in your urgency to win an argument that you are riding roughshod over people's experiences of having to bury members of their family?

Have a bit of bloody compassion.

Erm- if you read the thread you'll see that another poster raised the issue of funeral directors often providing their service for free when a child is involved. I was simply pointing out that this is not a good comparison at all, because all the disbursements for all the services other than the funeral directors time ARE charged for. No one can expect goods to be manufactured and handed out free of charge. Particularly when these are optional goods and you aren't obliged to purhase then.
Mrs devere- my 'exactly' is that I am agreeing with you . The only charges are for things which are chosen by the parents.

No one is suggesting buying baby clothes is like arranging a Childs funeral. Ffs.

Saw this thread earlier, didn't comment at the time, but assumed the same as Bupcakes: that op left the words "so much" out of her thread title. No one would be so naive as to think shops shouldn't charge for certain goods -

• but if they do, then they really are v. naive and don't deserve a kicking.

Op- if you know any older women who had prem babies you would know that many of them would have loved the chance to buy a personal item of clothing for their child. My brother was born weighing just over 2 lb and my mother told us she cried her eyes out at not being able to buy any clothing to fit. The only options were literally dolls clothes. Don't assume it's about exploiting vulnerable parents. Perhaps they just desperately want to treat their new baby the same as anyone else

donthateme no-one is suggesting that the opportunity for parents of premature babies should be taken away from them but rather that making such a massive profit out of a horrible situation doesn't seem right.

Do you know what it costs to make a babygrow? About 30 pence materials, and since they are done on mass-producing machines, labour will be at a minimum too. Even if shops charged £4 per baby grow, they'd still make a profit.

I think it's disgusting that profits are made out of lots of things bunting. But 'the op said shops shouldn't charge, full stop. That is what most people on the thread are disagreeing with, not the profit margins on baby clothes

Well, I still think that she mis-typed her thread title. I think this because in her OP she didn't suggest they should be free of charge, but that they shouldn't be so expensive.

op needs to return and clarify.

That would be kind.

Jesus christ! Just came back! Yes I meant to put charge more. I'm not an idiot that thinks people should give out stuff for free! that's why I said 8 quid for a tiny top when they charge like 3 quid for normal size baby clothes.

I understand they are harder to make and sell less, hence the price tag. but for such big stores I just thought items that are clearly used for people in bad situations, they wouldn't make it that people have to be charged such a ridiculous amount.

Maybe I am being a bit nieve, but reading this thread makes me realise there are some very nasty mums out there!

and whoever was quoting me from the mcdonalds thread yesterday. I don't actually have 4 kids at 21 that don't live with me. I was sick of having a ridiculous argument!

Perhaps type a bit more carefully, then the content of your post may not be misconstrude and lead to an all out spat.

Christ, if you actually read the opening post and not just the thread title, like about three of us have managed, you might get the gist of what the OP was saying.

We all make typos. Read the post before you flame, I think is what you should be saying.

Sorry OP, I realise that you had good intentions with your post, I don't know why I was so shirty with my post. I guess I'm a bit sensitive about any topic to do with premature babies.

'nasty mums'

ffs

But the products aren't much different in price to similar items in boots looking at there website?