that bloody Bounty telecanvassers just woke DD up

[Fibilou]

DD has just gone to sleep for her nap after half an hour of coaxing (despite being so tired she kept rubbing her eyes she just won't sleep). She is on a pillow on my lap. DH has been kept on at work to deal with a prisoner (he's a police officer)

Phone rang, I thought it was DH, it rang right by where I have baby and woke her up.

And it was bloody Bounty trying to do a sodding survey

Oh they are driving me bloody nuts. They keep ringing to sell me this crap book set - I have said no so many times and they have woken ds up repeatedly - just wish they would do one!

Cold callers are a pain but yabu to blame them for waking dd. Your DH's call (or any other call) would also have woken her up, surely?

Very annoying.

Thanks to Mumsnet I was prepared for the Bounty lady and sent her on her way without giving her any details, but not before I scored my little sudocream pot!

Oh, I know that Janeite - I am being totally U ! At least I wasn't rude to her, just said rather pointedly "you have just woken my baby up from her nap".

Look on the bright side - it might help her to be less sensitive to noise. When MIL brought dh home from the hospital, she put the phone under his cot, to get him used to sleeping through noise.

It worked too - he can still sleep through anything. I swear it would take the Band of the Coldstream Guards, playing full pelt in the bedroom, to wake him up, once he's asleep.

We're on that list you can sign up for, where any UK-based cold callers aren't allowed to contact you (sadly, it doesn't work for overseas ones). Occasionally, we do get a call, and I always make a point of saying 'I am NOT interested, and you have just woken my baby up'. (DS is 2 and alas, no longer naps for long periods of time!) Just on general principles.

Bounty aren't cold calling you if you have given them your details so TPS would not apply. You can however request to be taken off all of their dialling lists when they call you which will stop the calls.

That's really annoying, but YABabitU. What is Bounty?

Bounty pay hospitals so they are allowed on the postnatal awards where they approach you,hand you a plastic bag full of crap (apart from the sudocrem), and then try and get your details "for there records so the company knows they have been given out"

I too was prepared thanks to mumsnet and dis not give them my details.

The Bounty lady at my hospital was so insensitive and awful. I too had been prepared by MN but was in a bad way when she came in with her clipboard pretending to be someone official who just "needed some details from me" I told her I wasn't interested as my twins had just been admitted to NICU and I hadn't slept for 48 hrs and she said "well you won't be able to have a bag of free baby things then"
Short shrift from me, as you can imagine.

(Later, when the boys were out of NICU I took 2 Bounty bags from the bins in the hall, chucked all the guff away and took the freebies home anyway )

OMG this exact same thing happened to me when ds was about 8 weeks old. I was actually just heading to the phone to take it off the hook as well.

I am ashamed to say that I screamed down the phone at the caller that "No I don't want to answer any f*cking questions as I now have to go and be with my 8 week old ds that you have just selfishly woken up", yes I said selfishly as though she somehow knew he had fallen asleep and phoned just to piss me off .

Totally unreasonable of me I know but I was totally knackered and pretty much doing it all alone thanks to ar*ehole ex H. I also told her to NEVER CALL THIS NUMBER AGAIN!

Love it BBTS ! I ended up with 4 bounty bags for some bizarre reason - I have enjoyed the free conditioner, usually we buy "economy brands" so the lenor or whatever it was was a rare treat !

Ah OK. I thought Bounty was a chocolate bar I've never been in a maternity bit of a hospital. If I ever have to go in one (hopefully I never will!) I shall be prepared!

not just bounty. I ranted on here a while ago about an unnecessary phone call from HSBC about an issue that had been dealt with by email and by letter but they rang me as well, waking up DS. I do now tend to unplug the phone though most of the time it wouldn't wake him up probably