To think Peaches Geldof should have strapped her baby in?

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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

The fact is that the state of the pavement is partly to blame. Had there not been a missing slab the accident wouldn't have happened.

The cause of the accident was the hole in the pavement.
It was made worse by the fact she'd not strapped him in but this was not the cause.

my my, what a lovely thread

WorldCitizen

you are not suggesting Peaches is in the press for achievements are you.....

Pagwatch wouldn't that be something

Kayano it's not 'shit parenting' it's just an accident. These things happen.

"yes she should have strapped her baby in and out of instinct i would have dropped the phone straight away."

My mum always thought that if you and the baby were falling downstairs, your instinct would be to keep hold of the baby. One day, when I was a few months old, she fell down the stairs while holding me. Her instinct was not to keep a hold of me, but to drop me and I bounced down a number of stairs! It doesn't appear to have done me any damage, but goes to show that what we think our instinct would be isn't necessarily the case.

Those photos are out of order - photo 1 looks like she isn't really aware that the pram is falling, the photo has been taken using those multiple shot functions which photograph one every second and they pick the ones that look the best. she obviously stops talking on the phone in the photo in photo three, and in the final photo she doesn't look like she's chatting on the phone, she looks like she's wedged the phone under her chin to have both her hands free - totally different to how she looks in the first photo and she's obviously chatting.

Why is everyone so convinced that she's chatting on the phone in that last photo? It doesn't look like that to me at all.

She should have strapped the baby in. Hey ho - we've all done things we shouldn't have done. But comparing a flattish lying baby in a pram being pushed at about 3 miles an hour on a pavement with a car doing a minimum 20 miles an hour is a bit of a stretch just to be offended.

I'm sure I can find more offensive things about peoples parenting than this.

yes i have said as much barlet what you THINK you would do and what actually happens in reality is often very different. sometimes instinct kicks in, sometimes you are just in shock and you just react and you dont always do the most logical thing.

Has anyone mentioned the fact her SON is wearing tights? TIGHTS!!!

A bit of a parenting fail re not strapping him into the car seat. Perhaps she had been carrying him beforehand and put him down to speak in the phone?

Yes the old Bystander Intervention test on psychology is a good example of this - you'd think that if you witnessed an accident in the street, your instinct would be to run and help, but actually many, many people freeze in these situations and do not offer help.

Kayano, I should imagine Peaches is very probably the same, a good honest mum, doing the best she can, she made a mistake and the fucking paps were right there ready to catch her do it, so people all over the internet can judge and be extremly nasty about her.

My DSs pram upturned down the steps to my house it was horrific, luckily he was strapped in, but is shook me to the core.

I haven't read the whole thread but on Twitter she said that he was strapped in, and also that the paps just stood and smiled when it happened.

Geez, whats with the pitchforks?

Anybody who spends any time on mn knows that none of us are perfect parents, there is always something unforeseen happening. Every day.

From blue babies to dropped babies.

Heck, some of us even cut their own hair and get it awfully wrong!

yes someone commented on his tights, they look CUTE! i put tights on my boys when they were little, when the winter babies anyway, it just kept them warm and meant no worries re socks coming off all the soddin time!

Oh I think they are adorable, was being tongue in cheek. Wish I had thought of tights for skinny I ds2 when he was a baby.

yes I know many mothers of little boys who use them under trousers in winter

So now, what's wrong with the tights???

i got them from gap when ds3 was little as he is a december born.

my dd wears tights, she has an obscene amount, i may have gone slightly ott after the four boys she looked very funky in short dungarees and great patterned tights the other day and then it got too hot and i had to take her tights off, i was actually a bit miffed as they looked so cute! she STILL looked cute in the short dungarees, but i am a sucker for a cute pinafore, or shorts etc and a pair of tights on my dd....must remember she is not a doll..

I am sure she has learnt from this experience. So I don't think she was unreasonable for not strapping her child in just a bit inexperienced/forgetful. BUT you cannot fully control a pram without having both hands on the tiller and this will have given her an unpleasant wake-up call on that front.

I DO think she was unreasonable to do all the finger pointing on Twitter because it hasn't done her any favours - she actually said he was strapped in and it really doesn't look as though he was. Far better if she had said something along the lines of "F**k just tipped baby out of pushchair (bloody pavements) but will NEVER forget to strap him in again!"

Is this the day after her wedding? Nice to see her out and about with baby instead of jetting off on some luxury honeymoon while the "adored" baby stays at home with the nanny! I must admit to having warmed to her since the advent of motherhood

Ds2 is very skinny, last year I actually put those knitted leggings under his school trousers to keep him warm.

5madthings, I'd be the same if I ever had a girl, after three boys I would love a change of clothes.

I he warmed to her too. She is just getting on with it. I also feel sad Paula isn't around to see her grandchild.

yes after four boys it is just the novelty factor of girls ones, i am having a ball!

cello do you really think parents should always have two hands on the handle of a pram? i regularly push mine wiht just one hand, once you have more than one child you are often holding hands with a toddler etc as well. its perfectly fine in most situations to push with one hand and i can control mine perfectly well with just one hand. infact when buying a pram one of the things i tested was that i COULD push it and steer it with one hand!

5inthebed h&m have some great knitted leggins, check them out! :)

" Nice to see her out and about with baby instead of jetting off on some luxury honeymoon while the "adored" baby stays at home with the nanny!"

Yy to that cello

I also had DS in tights on cold days. Much warmer.

I have three girls and believe me, the cost of tights soon takes the shine off the cuteness although little fat thighs in tights are scrumptious