Bounty reps at hospital

[EmbarrassingMama]

Anyone know if those ghastly Bounty women are still allowed to harass you in your post-birth haze in hospital atm?

Hoping them being evicted might be the one good thing about Covid...

It's a long time since I gave birth but they were there then. The woman was absolutely flabbergasted when I refused to sign up.

I really bloody hope not.

My last baby was in 2018 and they were an absolute nuisance. They coerced the lady in the bed opposite to have a newborn photo shoot and were making such a racket the hearing screener couldn't get a reading from DS so he had to be referred to a clinic.

I find it absolutely astonishing they are allowed to just wander around hospitals.

My sister's first experience with a Bounty rep was so bad she actually included a ban on any of them approaching her while she was in the hospital when writing her second birth plan. The midwives and doctors were unsurprised and supportive. Her DH put a sign on her curtain and her bed. Another mum asked for it before they left. They should be banned permanently.

I liked getting the Bounty rep . I'm just a sucker for free stuff though and she wasn't pushy. That would have made all the difference if she had been. I'd be surprised if they were permitted at the moment and would be pissed off if they were.

I remember getting bounty bags but never saw the rep with my first born. They didn't work Christmas day. Saw them with my second, hut they didn't seem pushy.

I'm guessing people posting in this section are pregnant with their next baby and don't have recent/covid hospital experience :o

You might want to try asking in chat or somewhere more general?

None when I had my baby last August

I didn't get any photos, but the rep helped pass my daughter to me as I was stuck in the bed and the midwives couldn't be arsed.

My bounty rep wandered in, asked if I had a bag yet (no), saw I had no baby with me (she was in NICU) so put a bag down for me beside the bed and scuttled off.

So they were there but I didn't have a baby for them to hassle me about. She was polite though and didn't ask anything about where my baby was so not a bad experience at all. Not that there could have been an experience really.

I gave birth in January this year and heard a midwife say they didn't know how many free bags they had left as the company had gone under....

Forgot the pain, haven't forgotten the pushy, rude bounty woman giving me a hard sell and making me feel utterly inadequate. Who on any other day I would have had no issues in telling her where to go.
That particular day I just wasn't thinking straight.
They should not be anywhere near a maternity ward unless invited there by parents.

Sorry what is a Bounty Rep? This is my first child and I’m not from the UK. This is a woman who sales you baby pictures?

No bounty rep when I had my baby beginning of June, also no bags. Got the form for the Emma’s diary pack (from Boots/Argos) with birth cert

I really hope they're not there anymore

I had my dd in July and there weren’t any then. I’d be livid if there had have been when her dad and siblings weren’t allowed in!

I got a bar of much appreciated Lindt from mine, as well as some of those yummy strawberry flakes coated in yogurt. A polite but firm thanks for the stuff but no, I don't want to sign anything / buy anything, was all that was needed from me.

www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/hundreds-of-jobs-at-risk-as-parenting-club-bounty-heads-for-insolvency-12121749

Looks like they entered pre packaged administration at the end of 2020, but I can’t see anything further on the first page of search results

They haven’t set foot on the ward for maybe one year now due to covid. It’s been wonderful! But they will be back. They are awfully pushy with the women. I think it’s disgusting that they can be allowed in to your private space to try and sell you stuff after giving birth. Who invented this shit? I can’t believe they are allowed on the wards to be honest.

Many units had stopped working with them anyway, but through COVID they’ve definitely not been in.

My local hospital got rid of bounty reps back in 2013/2014 thanks in part to a Mumsnet poll that showed 80ish% of mums were against them. Can't believe they are still allowed in most wards during normal times!!

This is the notice on their website:
www.bountyweb.co.uk/orders/hospitalsearch.php
Personally never been bothered by them, they were only there after one birth and didn't bother me at all...

The Bounty lady at my hosp was fine, or at least I don’t remember her not being fine. Pretty much knocked on the door, popped in, gave us the bag and left IIRC.

I saw one at an antenatal clinic in 2015 and then never again

Why do hospitals let them in? They obviously upset a lot of women and surely they get in the way.

My manager told me that the ward gets money from them. So that’s why we have to keep a certain amount of storage space for the bounty packs and to allow them access to the ward. It always comes down to money. If they sell £1000’s worth of photos then it is beneficial to them and the hospital will get a cut of money.