To think this baby does look cold? <warning - judgy pants>

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Saw this in the Mail earlier but to avoid all the don't click nonsense I've found this version.

Obviously massive over-reaction by whoever called the police, and by the police themselves, they certainly have better things to do (or should have, and the woman is right about the response you get if you get burgled or report vandalism), but can't help thinking I would never take a young child out on a prom in January wearing just a thin top like that. At the very least they'd have a warm jumper/cardi and a hat but most probably a coat and mittens and proper shoes/boots. I notice the mum has a thick cardi and boots on!

Both my children are like TheDetective's. I see friends wrapping their babies in layer upon layer to go from the house to the car then the car to a cafe. They never take them out of the snowsuit! DD wears vest/sleepsuit/cardi/blanket, unless we're walking with the pram, then we use the snowsuit.

I think the girl in question was having a quick run about on the pier, not far from their presumably warm car. My DD would've been dressed the same. We may have had a hat in the boot of the car, but I wouldn't have put it on unless it was really really cold.

ffs, someone was worried about a child! good yes? if someone had phoned the police while james bugler was escorted by his killers he would be alive today!

the police came to investigate a case if child neglect? good.

the police found child was fine as she was! fine.

everyone doing what they thoughtless best/ their job. good!

why the fuck is this news? it's a non story at worst and a good example of a functioning concerned society at best.

Is it only me that sees the irony here, the mother wouldn't give the police her name and went so far as to say 'I added that they’d be taking her to the social workers next if I gave them my details.'

And yet the next thing she does it go to the Daily Fail and has her name plastered all over the news.

I thought that cherry but wasn't sure that someone hadn't already said it.

She could have put a snow suit on her in the car, but previous threads have declared that to be certain death for a child.

I see on the independant comments that someone says "Pompous cow. I'll sort her out on Mumsnet."

This was on the front page of the Metro in London this morning and I really wanted to post it. The baby looks freezing, her hands are red and her cheeks look wind burnt. It wasnt an emergency requiring police response but that baby looked physically affected by the cold.

I suspect if someone called the police the child was probably shivering or visibly cold.

I live nearby, it was very cold on Friday and that child was not wrapped up well enough.

It does seem to me that in some ways it's a 'how dare you question my parenting, I'm middle class'.

I suspect if the mother was wearing a tracksuit, had a Croydon facelift and a fag hanging out of her mouth people would be applauding the police being rung, not outraged that they did.

Obviously the mother knows her own child but I would have zipped a coat on my little one in the same circumstances, and I'm not a 'snow-suit, mittens, hat and ear muffs to go to Marks and Spencer's sort.

Surely though this photo was not taken at the time but was posed for the papers? So does it tell us anything?

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PIC AT THE BOTTOM?

Which ones are shopped? The ones with red cheeks or the ones with normal cheeks.

Surely the reason the police were called was not 'this baby looks cold' but 'this baby looks inappropriately dressed and therefore might have just been abducted?

It tells us that even after someone phoned the police because they were worried about her DD being cold she was prepared to do exactly the same again for long enough for her to be visibly freezing.

I thick calling the police was excessive but so was going to the press especially when IMO she is in the wrong and had twice failed to protect her dd from the cold.

DD1 didn't feel the cold anywhere near as much as I thought she should and was just plain miserable bundled up in lots of clothes.
I used to get a whole lot of catsbumfaces.

Although it was annoying on one level, I could understand that people were just concerned, though.

I must admit that it makes ME cold when I see parents this time of the year wearing coats etc...and toddlers in their buggies with BARE feet and their feet look red,raw from the cold.

But all these people whose children didn't feel the cold, I bet they didn't look as miserable as that little girl? I don't disbelieve you, I'm sure there are lots of children who hate being bundled up, but if yours had had that pinched expression on their little faces you'd have covered them up I'm sure.

I don't think she does look miserable -and I think at that age she'd soon be crying if she was!

Oh, the irony of the slogan on her top...

Perhaps that is why the mother thought it was suitable winter attire.

It's not cold at all here and hasn't been all winter yet.

If it were summer you could say that the baby looks too hot. If we didn't know the season we could guess the baby was teething from the pictures.

I thought that when I saw her! I think calling the police is a bit OTT but if it were my child, she'd have a coat on, proper winter shoes & possibly a hat.

I'm sure she's fine though...

I am not particularly judging as we don't know how long she'd been out of the car etc but I did think this mroning that baby looks fucking freezing.

Red cheeks, red nose, red hands = windswept and cold.

i clicked becuase it wsnt a daily mail linlk
then title said 'by daily mail reporter'

i read as far as " financier husband" ...presumably this is important becuase rich people can always look after their children

then i read "yobs at the back of the house"

and thought fuck it

i can't tell you how much this shit pisses me off

daily mail reporters should be shot

and i mean it

Pressed send too soon, I can imagine sleeping baby in car, watching your husband surf or whatever, baby wakes unexpectedly and gets bored, you decide to take them for a toddle, shit you've forgotten a coat, sod it, it's 10 degree out, she's got a vest, 10 mins will be fine. I know it is something I'd do.

Probably already been said but I think the picture has been tinkered with to make her look cold. She magically doesn't look cold in the last photo. It said in the Metro that she was wearing a fleece. I think that's ok if she briefly got out of the car. Different if they went on a long walk like that.

to be fair though unless you were a tad deranged you would only call the police if you were really worried.

so guess the passerby was worried this child was suffering.

think the police acted sensibly. no one would have known if the mother hadn't gone to the press.