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

oh i dont care about the cost and i do actually pass stuff on or sell it etc. after four boys i am just enjoying the novelty too much, dd is 21mths and its not wearing off. i think dd has over 30 pairs h&m is good for tights and mackays, not too expensive... i cant help myself

The only reason I'm fastidious about strapping in is because I did exactly this with DD1 when she was a baby- forgot to strap her in, hit a pothole whilst crossing and tipped her out onto her face in the middle of the road.

I can only just talk about it now, three and a half years later.

She must be feeling awful. I would guess that she lied from feeling like an utter failure as a mother, as I did.

BTW, I trust that the Sun photographer threw down his camera at once and rushed over to make sure the baby was alright? Right?

no tethers apparently he continued to take pics and smiled! tosser! that actually shocks me more than her not having the baby strapped in tbh, why would you continue taking pics when the baby COULD have been seriously hurt! thankgod he was ok.

But she's already lied - he may not have smiled. And I think he was freelance as the mail has the pics too

This never happened to me in all my years of pushing cheaper (i'm sure) prams about london. I did always strap my kids in though. I hate to judge slebs for any little thing that a camera happened to catch when none of us is perfect but if that'd been me i would have drpped the phone like hot potato.

she hasnt said he did, it was somewhere else on this thread and reported elsewhere. i still think its crap to continue taking photos in a situation like that where a baby could actually be hurt! where anybody could be hurt tbh.

as he would have been clicking away with a giant camera in front of his face I doubt she'd have been able to tell if he was smiling.

5mad but the paparazzi do this in situations much worse, unfortunately.

snapper was probably about 4 miles away anyway, with a long lens

yes they do world that doesnt make it ok tho.

No, doesn't make it okay

LBE yup immaced the baby, stained her blue and dropped her on her head. She also has a buggered front tooth where she tripped over her own feet and hit her rocking horse handle on the way down.

Ds has a scar where he split his ear in two pieces doing an Elivis impression age 4, and a scar on his forehead where his reception teacher knocked him over in the playground. I also made the ultimate parenting fail and took my son on an aeroplane that was stormed by armed police to arrest the man in front of us.

I get a warm fuzzy glow inside though that my misdeamonours as a shit parent give the sanctimonious a lovely quivers thrill of righteous indignation. Yes, as a parent I should keep my children out of harm, but as I don't have Amazeballs SuperMum Nipples of Clairvoinancy, I do the best I can and occasionally fuck up along the way. It's called being human.

TBF that would NEVER happen to me with the massive wheels on my old graco. It's these new shitty pushchairs with small front wheels (wtf?!) that are useless. A good pushchair should NOT tipple over, when passing over a little discrepancy on the ground.

She was probably exhausted and not thinking straight, mistakes happen, as long as you don't repeat them... we all fuck up at least once. I feel sorry for anyone that has their worst 'terrible parenting' moments plastered all over the newspapers.

I'm rather pleased this thread has gone this way. Much better than Peaches getting slated.

The fact that the most vocal people are also new mum is a bit shocking.

Just wait, just you wait

Thanks. I'm so shocking for thinking the kid Should have been strapped in and she shouldn't have lied on twitter

Totally shocking

you have absolutely no way of knowing just how you would react in the same situation and whether you would drop the phone or not. I've never been a fan of hers but she obviously adores her baby.

FFS, Kayano - when your child reaches 18 and you have made not a single mistake... feel free to comment. Until then... not so much.

to be fair Kayano you called it 'shit parenting' but then added "Instead of taking any responsibility herself which seems to e the story of her life tbf" which suggests you generally have someting against her as a person which isn't really fair.

kayano you have apsolutly no way of knowing for certain that she did lie.

its perfectly possible that the straps were worn perhaps they wernt in correctly or hadnt clicked propally its been known to happen

Is not having accidents a parenting skill then?

Bet the poor woman had the fright of her life. I know I did when something similar happened to mine. I forget to strap her in (never forgot again) and she fell out into the road as I pushed the pram down the kerb to cross.

Bloody hell Kayano- dog with a bone much?

I fell downstairs yesterday (7 months pregnant so a bit of a shocker) and while I was fine, I did fling my blackberry and my kindle across the fall and destroy both of them.

Glad to know I would drop the phone (although also fear I would drop the baby as well).

I do know that I am generally rubbish in a crisis and might just do something as dumb as hang on to the phone.

It is possible that Peaches is a Mnetter and is reading all this.