I don't normally criticise the royals but...

[DorothyL]

... another day of Kate and William away from their tiny baby for a substantial amount of time.

I just don't understand it, when they were this small I couldn't bear to be apart from them.

Now getting my hard hat 👩‍🚒👷‍♀️😬

Guess the royals don't breastfeed. Or not exclusively anyway.

George was 8 months when they went to the Maldives

It doesn't matter who they are, royal or not. This is nobodies business but theirs.

Respect other people's parenting, as you would wish yours to be. Plenty of mothers on here are out working full time with their own children (and newborns) in daycare. Women work, vote, drive and even...dare I say it...go out and have a good time.

Guess the royals don't breastfeed.

No, but then I guess the benefits of breastfeeding are outweighed by being insanely rich and never having to work a day in your life (unless you want to - and it’s not exactly 8 hours hard labour).

one of mine breast fed until he was 4yo! (the others were 18m, 2y & 3y) ... if breastfeeding meant never being apart from them no way would I have done it for so long.

*Guess the royals don't breastfeed.
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How do you know? She might well do. Let's not turn this into a breastfeeding debate 🙄

A Girl on my Facebook has been looking after her Step Grandaughter every Saturday night since she was born 7 weeks ago

But anyway, I think Kate welcomes the break. She is lucky that she is able to have childcare to do other things.

Tbh George is a few months older than my youngest (ds), and I still find him a handfull! So it's hardly a complete break to be with a 4/5 year old plus a 2/3 yo!

More unreasonable is that I bought that dress last week and now will look like a copycat!

God forbid someone chooses to have time away from their baby and who cares whether she breastfeeds or not?! Her baby, her choice - there is no right or wrong as long as that baby is fed.

Do you honestly think those children go without?

I'm with the OP. I wouldn't have left my babies with anyone at that age unless it was absolutely necessary, and if I was out with my children then the baby would have been included.
Seriously I think it's because Kate doesn't want anyone seeing him until she releases another photo.

Does anyone actually know where Louis was? The photo's are probably taken over a few hours, probably with food and drink break in the middle. There was probably a Nanny tucked away somewhere with a nondescript baby squawking away who could be taken into the private area for mummy cuddles at a moments notice!

Precious parents make for precious children I find. Luckily I abandoned mine to my mother in a weekly basis. Mine have grown up well rounded unlike some others I know who had precious parents.

Don’t like the judgement. No didn’t think so.

Of course she could be breastfeeding. I'm far from royal but I was pumping and freezing surplus milk when my dc's were 2 weeks old and shooting up the weight charts. It would be easy for the DoC to pump enough for a few hours away at this stage.

Perhaps, she wanted to spend quality time with her older children - it's hard to run about while holding a baby. There's little point in dragging the baby out only to have the nanny take care of it. Also, the occasion didn't seem suitable for babies - full sun, raucous behaviour, etc. They are lucky to have dependable childcare so they make use of it.

My husband and I went to Thorpe Park on Friday while a close relative watched our 6 week old baby, guess that makes us shit parents too OP.

I’m curious as to why people wouldn’t leave their babies with people they trust? I’d understand if it was a drop in crèche but I wonder why people don’t leave their babies with full time nannies who take rare if their needs.

In the US women return to work weeks after having babies. I’d be a lot more concerned about the women’s health. The babies will be fine as long as they are picked up, fed and changed when required.

I wouldn't but then I wasn't even home with him at 6 weeks so I full on admit to being prescious. They look like they had a lovely day, probably much needed release for the kids after the TOTC formality, who cares so long as he's looked after well?

If she'd had him she'd be criticised for holding him and not playing with the kids, letting the nanny hold him, leaving him in his pram, putting him on a blanket, breast feeding in public, not breast feeding in public, him crying, him not crying, the older ones ignoring him, the older ones pestering him. She knows she can't win so hopefully does what's best for the five of them. Also presumably William was ok with leaving his child behind whilst he played polo else he'd have got the nanny to bring him along

“Guess the royals don't breastfeed. Or not exclusively anyway.”

Whoever came out with that little gem would probably assume I didn’t either, because when dc1 was a month old, Dh and I had a long evening out at a concert (we’d booked tickets before I was pregnant)
Oh and then she was with a childminder 3 long days a week from 12 weeks because I returned to work.

They’d be wrong. Dc1 was exclusively bf, and then after weaning, continued to bf through choice for another 18 months.

If some people want to make this into a competition, how about: I could express milk, my clever baby could drink directly from the breast, bottle, (or a sippy cup from 4/5 months) oh and I kept my career going too. Do I win?

Seriously, get a grip. For royals, W and K seem reasonably decent and I doubt their kids will grow up as delinquents.

Some posters are just trying to measure their own wonderful parenting against that of Kate and Wills. They are so very pleased to imagine they are superior because they never leave their baby with anyone. And they take it everywhere. Brilliant.

When I read the title I thought it was about George playing with toy guns. But no it was a bitter post about the DOC being a bad mother. She looks like a very normal mother to me.
Have a very mouldy and a cup of vinegar to wash it down.

6 week olds pretty much sleep all the time anyway don't they, I don't see the big deal! It was only a few hours.

I'm surprised more people aren't at the gun than at the baby not being at the park in the sun whilst the nanny chills

Yes I was waiting for some major pearl clutching at the toy guns.

Actually I hate seeing kids this age with guns so I might have had to go buy me some pearls