@TheLovleyChebbyMcGee
Its really not ok to take them. In a previous thread a woman had been given bad news regarding her scan then had to sit in the waiting room with a pregnant woman and her partner both cooing over their toddler. Its really insensitive!
Also, its an important medical appointment, its not a child friendly environment.
I think I'm quite in the position to comment on this.
2 years back, I had preterm labour around 35 weeks, lost my baby at birth (neonatal death) Because then other women were also in emergency they moved me out of the bereavement room and put me in a postpartum ward, with mothers who had visitors round, balloons everywhere, I couldn't sleep despite being exhausted from losing too much blood, and all I could hear was newborns screaming. The midwives were incredibly sorry, I would consider that as insensitive?
I lost another baby, and had to sit in a waiting room with mothers being wheeled past me with their newborns wheeled with them.
This is part of life, children and babies are all around us and we can't escape that no matter how sad we are.
I'm incredibly high risk this pregnancy, and my husband has already used his 2 days he was allowed off. The hospital book appointments for me last minute, and fortunately, I have been allowed my child with me, except while waiting we have to wait outside not in the waiting room.
If someone was silently begrudging me calling me insensitive I would be quite shocked because no-body knows what I've been through or what my situation is.
In an ideal world, you have family nearby who can come in last minute, and we shouldn't have to essentially book a stranger for a few hours whom our child has never met?
When I was pregnant with the child I lost, my toddler had to bloody sit on my stomach for a cervical examination because I didn't fancy leaving her with her grandfather who has a predatory past.
you don't know peoples situations why they need their children there.