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To think Peaches Geldof should have strapped her baby in?

515 replies

KnockKnockPenny · 10/09/2012 09:43

and also, put the phone down when her baby fell out of his pram!

Have just seen photos of her poor baby tumbling out of his pram onto a pavement. I know the council should have sorted the pavement out, but he wouldnt have fallen out if he was strapped in :(

sorry for The Sun link

OP posts:
EverlongYouAreGoldAndOrange · 10/09/2012 12:32

Woah.

Calm it kayono

There's being honest and being a bit evil mean. Two different things.

Kayano · 10/09/2012 12:32

Honesty
Goes
Further and not blaming the world
For your fuck ups.

Off

GWenlockMaryLacey · 10/09/2012 12:33

Fucking hell at this thread Shock. Now I see where the vipers thing comes from.

Aboutlastnight · 10/09/2012 12:33

I'd cut Kayano some slack too though, as she is a new mother with PFB

I was a judgypants until Dd2 came along and I realised that multitasking was not my strong point. then I had DD3 who is just feral: climbing trees aged 2, scooting to nursery aged 3 without helmet (I know, I know)

Am a terrible mother.

BupcakesandCunting · 10/09/2012 12:33

See, Kayano, I'm NOT judging you. Honestly. I could not care less what your baby or you are doing. But can you not see?! I don't know the ins and outs of your life, just like you don't know the ins and outs of the Geldof woman. So why would you judge a situation that you know very little of? Especially if you don't like it done to you?

EverlongYouAreGoldAndOrange · 10/09/2012 12:34

Ok the baby should have been strapped in, he wasn't. I've made that mistake.

But what's so bad about her pushing the pram whilst chatting on the phone?? Seriously is that not allowed now?

Aboutlastnight · 10/09/2012 12:34

aw and the bottle thing is not on

c'mon guys

limitedperiodonly · 10/09/2012 12:35

Sorry about your difficulties kayano. I'd have thought that would make more understanding of other mothers, not less.

And please don't tell me to fuck off. That is against MN rules. I'm not going to report you though because you seem a little overwrought, so don't worry.

Maybe AIBU and this particular thread isn't the place for you.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 10/09/2012 12:35

Bloody hell this thread has gone a tad Confused

5madthings · 10/09/2012 12:35

i think people are being sarcastic kayano but you are so quick to judge and yet you have one 6mth old, believe me it gets a whole lot more challenging.

worldcitizen · 10/09/2012 12:36

pagwatch of course they are not, but so are not my achievements Grin

EverlongYouAreGoldAndOrange · 10/09/2012 12:36

Hey it was only one poster mentioning the bottle thing.

Lolwhut · 10/09/2012 12:37

The pram tipped over on a small bump, that wouldn't have happened with an old style silver cross type of not trendy pram

She is obviously daft not strapping her baby in but there have been more than the odd occasion when I have been equally guilty of , ahem, lapses in safety. (falls off beds, falls of changing mats, etc Blush

BupcakesandCunting · 10/09/2012 12:40

I was being sarky about who was giving Kayano's baby her bottle just as an attempt to make her see that it's easy to judge. I was a bottlefeeder as my huge norks did not do well at BFing I couldn't BF either. Absolutely no judginess on FFing from me.

5madthings · 10/09/2012 12:40

oh dear i typed my post and before i could press post i had to answer the door, and now i have posted and things have moved on.

hmm bottle comments a bit much but it wasn a negative comment or a judgement as such.

anyway even IF peaches had held her hands up and said 'my fault' she would STILL have been slated so i think its bollocks to say otherwise. some of the comments under the newspaper article are bloody disgusting.

we all make mistakes, parenting can be bloody hard work, i dont know why we as parents have to bitch about each other about it.

OwlLady · 10/09/2012 12:40

I left part of my brian somewhere for the first year or so of all my childrens lives
quite normal isnt it?

Kayano · 10/09/2012 12:41

I know, the 6 mo is crawling already (before you all tell me I'm shit she has dozed back off to sleep!)

All I said was it was bad parenting to not use the straps (honest opinion) but could have seen past that as a mistake

It was a mistake to not put the phone down

It was a mistake to blame the roads when you should have been paying more attention
It was a mistake to blame the pushchair manufacturer (as that's what she essentially did when claiming the safety straps popped open)

Saying this is not attacking her. We do know about this particular situation because it was photographed and he has been on twitter (shock! On the Internet with a child) we know a
Lot more about this person and this situation than you know about me and the bottle Hmm

As I said its not really the incident that annoyed me its the fact that everyone makes mistakes and she can't own it this tryin to make herself seem perfect. She would get a lot new empathy if she wasn't deluding herself

BupcakesandCunting · 10/09/2012 12:41

Well, I hope you found the rest of Brian in the end OwlLady Shock

Grin
hobnobsaremyfavourite · 10/09/2012 12:42

Jeez when I think of all the mistakes/accidents/near misses I have been through with my 4 DC's I am eternally greatful that I am a nobody who doesn't have people waiting to take my picture so they can all judge me and mock me.

5madthings · 10/09/2012 12:44

yes probably has admitted her mistake to family and friends and she is defending herself on twitter as she KNOWS she will be slated in the press, i am pretty sure most of us would do the same tbh.

Kayano · 10/09/2012 12:44

Just as it was shit parenting on my fault that dd went off the bed. I'm just not in fantasy land about who the fault lies with.

Right, she's awake again.

I'm properly off now lol

Aboutlastnight · 10/09/2012 12:45

i think Peaches on phone not paying attention, pram goes over, in a split second she thinks 'fuck', still has phone in hand, another split second sees baby not crying nor upset, puts phone in crook of neck, gives baby a cuddle and a kiss, puts back in pram, probably this time sinks in..

...then later it sinks in and she thinks blardy hell, baby could have been hurt...

VivaLeBeaver · 10/09/2012 12:48

I really like her shoes, anyone know where they're from?

FrothyOM · 10/09/2012 12:53

Doubt her shoes come from shoe zone

VivaLeBeaver · 10/09/2012 12:56

Found some very similar from TopShop.