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Psting in AIBU for traffic - Bristol mum and newborn have gone missing, please keep your eyes open if in bristol!

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KnitFastDieWarm · 03/12/2014 12:01

Apologies for posting here but the Avon and Somerset police are running an urgent appeal for the safe return of Bristol mum Charlotte Bevan and her four day old baby, who have gone missing from a central Bristol maternity unit and haven't been seen for over 12 hours. PLEASE keep an eye out for her and phone the police if you see her - she's white, around 5'8, dark hair, wearing a black top, black trousers and hospital slippers or flip flops. Her baby is wrapped in a stripey blanket.

Hoping and praying for a safe return sad

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/03/mother-baby-missing-bristol-maternity-hospital

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AnitaManeater · 03/12/2014 23:49

About 2 miles from the hospital to the suspension bridge

Nicknacky · 03/12/2014 23:50

Oh god it's not far at all. My baby is one today, I can't imagine this situation at all. Utterly heartbreaking.

Jsa1980 · 03/12/2014 23:50

It's not a huge distance, just over a mile or so I would guess

auntboggle · 03/12/2014 23:57

Oh no this is the worst possible news. :(

Whatsthewhatsthebody · 04/12/2014 00:03

Have been thinking about her all day. So so upsetting. Her mother and boyfriend looked so nice.

Heartbreaking just heartbreaking.

Thoughts for the family charlotte and her baby.

duplodon · 04/12/2014 00:09

What a horrible comment, Sharon. Be human. Someone has died tragically.

slithytove · 04/12/2014 00:30

My baby is 11 weeks old, this is so terribly sad.

heartisaspade · 04/12/2014 00:34

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Deedeecupcake · 04/12/2014 00:47

This is just so sad :( my heart goes out to her family and to her. So sad that she thought that was her only option.
I hope they find the baby alive somewhere

SmellyFartado · 04/12/2014 00:57

Awful news, can't sleep for thinking about them.

TaytoCrisp · 04/12/2014 01:01

Desperately sad.. Hard to believe this could happen and she could just leave the hospital in slippers with 4 day old.. My heart goes out to her partner and family.the poor poor woman must have been very troubled Hmm

TimelyNameChangey · 04/12/2014 01:05

How did nobody see her go there? To the edge I mean?

Bakeoffcakes · 04/12/2014 01:07

Poor woman and babySadshe must have been in a terrible state to do that.
My heart goes out to her and her family x

MrsRhettButler · 04/12/2014 01:12

Depends where she was Timely, the gorge is massive and mostly wooded. Sad so sad

MrsRhettButler · 04/12/2014 01:13

I want to know how she got out of the hospital

ASAS · 04/12/2014 01:20

This is also keeping me awake. So terribly sad. Without speculating on this specific case, my own mum was unwell post natally and thankfully received intensive and sensitive care which led to a full recovery. If anyone reading this is distressed please call the Samaritans, or an ambulance if you need it, or post here and talk to us.

With regards to this case, Charlotte's family must be devastated. I feel very strongly about the image of her walking, basically bare foot, past 3 nurses at a vending machine. I also cannot believe no one outside a busy hospital didn't notice her. It just makes me feel so sad that if no one looked at her or spoke to her she must have felt so alone.

Redglitter · 04/12/2014 01:25

MrsRhett. There's been clips on the news etc it's all on cctv that she got dressed and left. As the police said in an appeal to her it's not an offence to leave the hospital. She was free to discharge herself. It wasn't the fact she left but the fact she disappeared that caused the concern

AcrossthePond55 · 04/12/2014 01:27

She walked out MrsRhett, she wasn't in a locked facility. The security precautions are to stop abductions by strangers. I'm sure if the nurses felt that she was a threat to herself or to her child they would have been keeping a very close eye on her. But as the child's mother, all she had to do was go and ask for her child. That's all I (or my DH) had to do when we had ours (they checked ID bands of course). Most of the time the baby is with the mother anyway (at least here). There would have been no (apparent) reason for the nurse to tell her 'no'. PND (if that is what it was) can be all but invisible unless the mother reaches out for help.

Let's not rip holes in the nurses or the hospital unless or until it appears they were negligent. I'm sure the staff feels just terrible.

AcrossthePond55 · 04/12/2014 01:30

ASAS makes a good point.

Can someone post the phone number for the Samaritans in this thread just in case? I'm not in the UK. I would try to find it online but I'm afraid I'd get it wrong.

SilentAllTheseYears · 04/12/2014 01:31

Very sad news now :(

Redglitter · 04/12/2014 01:32

It doesn't look like the baby has been found with her. BBC says the police helicopter is up assisting officers on the ground with their search

MrsRhettButler · 04/12/2014 01:35

I wasn't really meaning to accuse the hospital, I was surprised at how she was allowed to leave wearing hospital slippers I thought? I haven't seen the news although I meant to watch it, dd2 was playing up

ASAS · 04/12/2014 01:40

The Samaritans are on 08457 90 90 90 or [email protected]

TimelyNameChangey · 04/12/2014 01:46

All the searching for her and no eyewitnesses saw her in that mile and a half walk between the hospital and the gorge? not one person noticed her?

I think it's a bit odd that.

Newlywed2013 · 04/12/2014 01:50

Tbh I'm confused with how she left with the baby. I just had a baby a few weeks ago at swindon which is the same trust, baby had an electronic tag on until about 5 mins before being discharged as a security feature and I thought Bristol did as well!