Baby scald injury in hospital (sorry if already posted)

[Samantha71]

Hi, I'm Ben's mummy and I've just found the mumsnet website! I'm sorry if this has already been posted & if I'm repeating a message, but just posting to get support for my petition & Ben's website www.babybensfoot.cjb.net

Thank you all

kust read it all at the same time. how could they do that?

just not kust

Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor poor little man!!!!!!!!!!!

that this happened in this day and age.

Thank goodness he was too young to remember it.
Love & wishes to you & your family hun. x

Did this site crash anyone else's pc?

i got pop ups which shouldn't come up. it was trying to get me to get some software to help my computer with one of those virus detectors or something similiar.

the website

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i have just signed, i cant belive such a terrible thing could have happened, your poor little boy, i wish you all the health and happiness you deserve!

i have just signed, i cant belive such a terrible thing could have happened, your poor little boy, i wish you all the health and happiness you deserve!

have signed, cant believe this happened, i was a phlebotomist, and used to do heel pricks on babies, also used to put their heel in warm water to improve blood flow, but i just cant understand how water hot enough to scald could have been used, did the person taking the blood not think anything was odd when the baby started screaming? this has made me so angry, just glad little ben has recovered, and thankfully wont remember it.

just to add, that putting a sock on the babys foot or rubbing it between your hands has the same effect as the water, have sent this to friends that still take blood.

That is so so awful, your poor baby

And yes, made my pc go strange!

Thank you all for your support - sorry about the pop-ups but the website is hosted free of charge that way.

Hopefully by making as many mums aware of this as possible it will stop it happening to anyone else's little baby, I'm just so thankful that Ben's not scarred for life & that it was his foot and not a full bath that this guy gave

holy cow that's appalling

so sorry you all had to go through this

in our area .. midwives do the guthrie test at your home and I've never heard of warming the foot first

I'm in Edinburgh. They do the Guthrie test at home right in front of you. DD2 was about 8 days old.

omg I am horrified by that picture. How awful for him and you all. How is the injury now Samantha? Hope it's healing well. Honestly, I can't tell you how shocked am I by the picture. Poor darling.

POor thing I would have thought / hoped that the hospital would have chaged policy & procedures aleady without the need for a petition though ? Best of luck anyway

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what happened to the nurse? how could he not hear the baby screaming? are latex gloves really temp proof?

Gosh waht a terrible story. I was told by the mw when DS had the Guthrie test to put him in socks first. at mw who neglected to test the temp of the water.

Have signed btw.

Absolutely horrifying!
My DD's test was done at home - the midwife asked me to keep her feet warm beforehand
ie in bootees

twiglett - we use latex gloves at work and can feel the temp of water through them, perhaps a couple of degrees less but nothing significant.

I am confused by this as if it was scalding hot water how the hell could someone hold it under water for 3 mins? the baby would be seriously screaming by about 20secs! Also the foot looks rather big for a newborn?
Sorry if i am wrong.

I am obviously appalled at this and don't know how it could happen.
I've had all 3 of my children at this hospital and i can only praise it and its staff.
All their guthrie tests were done at home though by community MW. Why did they do this in hospital?

news story

The only one I could find on it.