To pull over?

[pestov]

Just home from a pretty crap journey home from Granny's. I was driving with DH sitting in the back to keep DD 6 months company. We were delayed by over 90 mins by an accident on the motorway, stop start traffic. Baby not a happy camper and despite his best efforts with finger food, entertainment and the like, DH was happy to let her scream until we got to services after the accident for a breastfeed. Was I unreasonable to pull over into the hard shoulder to feed her there? He didn't think it was enough of an emergency. As an aside, her bum was filthy, but he couldn't smell it sitting next to her - I noticed as soon as I picked her up

What you posted was a nasty insinuation.

xh hit a deer crossing the motorway at 70mph (xh not the deer) in Essex some years ago....doesn't just happen in the US.

Never happened to me anywhere I have driven but I have only seen them running across the road in the US. Not that they're not likely to do it anywhere else of course.

A cyclist in a triathlon was hit by a deer recently in Dublin's Phoenix Park. The animal may have been trying to leap over the column of cyclists.

Timing is everything.

Hope your xh was ok.

m.independent.ie/irish-news/firsttime-mother-killed-in-motorway-crash-after-stopping-to-take-hospital-call-about-newborn-35025714.html

This happened this week in Ireland. Get out of the car and up the embankment or behind the barrier.

And don't breastfeed or have a baby in your arms while driving. In the event of a small tip from a car behind your air bags will go off and squash your baby to death.

www.familyfriendlyhq.ie/family-blog/tragedydublin-baby-being-held-in-mothers-arms-died-when-airbag-deployed

I think posters should just ignore GF.

They've derailed the thread enough.

There's no reason or excuse for the op to do what she did and I imagine she knows that now.

I don't think anyone has mentioned breastfeeding while actually driving.

There's quite a lot that went wrong in that particular incident:
'Baby Paddy Francis was in his car seat on the front passenger seat of the car however Theresa his mum took him in her arms as she drove the car.

“My three-month-old wouldn’t settle so I had to take him in my hands while I was driving,” she said in her deposition.

Her older son Peter was in his car-seat in the back of her Nissan Micra as she drove on the wrong side of the road while making a right-hand turn in a housing estate off St Margaret’s Road in Finglas. The mum was not wearing her own seatbelt when she collided with another vehicle- a VW Polo.'

Yes walter they have. Sure they'll accuse us all of being pals again simply for agreeing that they're being goady
Once again making stupid and irrelevant comparisons.

math i read your whole comment.
Vile.

handsfree phonecall to 101? Not breaking the law.

Fwiw, I am familiar with Irish driving regs because I am Irish and have driven a lot in Ireland

You seem to have driven in so many places, yet are so clueless about safety in all of them. Quite an achievement.

I mentioned driving while breastfeeding math - search and you will see. I know where the driver concerned was heading - to the outer limits of stupid.

I was the one who called 101. I was fortunate enough at the time to have a Bluetooth hands free set up.

However, I was in standstill back to back traffic at the time, so would have called anyway. It was a good thing I did, DS's head spot was severely dipped and his temperature was up.

It's a horrible position to be in.