40 stone woman's CS costs £200k...thank you NHS!

[Alexa808]

Reading quite a few threads lately where mums-to-be are denied the resources of the NHS to have the birth they wish for (water, home, etc) I'm flabbergasted to read this:

www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article14491.ece

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

I don't think te care of other women on that day would have sufferred - they'd have know about her way in advance and extra staff would have come on their day off - obviously they'd have claimed overtime.

I think its probably the cost of building a special hoist, etc that would have cost the money.

[Hecate]

crikey. You really are very very pretty.

Is it very wrong of me to be mightily impressed by your milky bosom?

[TwoIfBySea]

Sorry I just had to come on to this thread again and say - Mamazon there is no way you are 20 stone!

If so you look fantastic on it!!!

I, on the other hand, do look like a complete mare so therefore wouldn't dare put a profile on neverless pics. I would if I looked like you though!

[Mamazon]

I promise you i really am nudging 21st.

I will have to put on a less flattering pic....basicly every other pic i own! just to prove to you all that it must have been lighting or something.

[Aitch]

shut UUUUUUUUP. stop putting yourself down, you are a beauty, learn to live with that.

[ipanemagirl]

I just watched the film and to be fair to the mother - she sounds amazed that she could even conceive at all given her weight, it didn't sound like a planned conception at all.
Also she said her father left her mother when her m was pg so that's the norm for her.
There is something frustrating for the non-obese to accept the huge expense of this procedure to the NHS but I don't know what else, morally, her doctors could have done. Doctors have to treat the patients who present themselves in order of emergency (to some extent). Surely no one would defend them refusing to treat her at all; she might have died without treatment.
I really think we have to be more understanding about obesity in our culture. There are multiple social causes and if it were easy to be thin then everyone would be!

What about the expense to the tax payer of a drunk driver who injures and kills people? What about the cost of rescue services for the countless ill prepared walkers/mountaineers/ climbers/sailors/swimmers who get in trouble every year often through lack of preparation and making poor decisions...

I look at this woman and think, that might have been me if I'd been born into her shoes. She won't actually be able to care for those babies unless she gets support and loses some weight, maybe with support she will?

[ravenAK]

Mamazon, you're gorgeous.

Good luck to Leanne & the triplets. []

[Mamazon]

why will she be unable to care for her children?

being fat now makes you an unfit parent?

[ipanemagirl]

She's not just fat, she's morbidly obese, that will make it hard to look after three young children particularly when they are mobile.
Her doctors have implied that she will need to lose weight in order to manage and she herself has said she will need to lose weight.
Obviously being a little overweight is not going to stop anyone being an able parent, being morbidly obese is potentially a problem though, she's admitted as much.

[ReallyTired]

I think its a good use of tax payers' money. 200K saved four lives. I thought the video clip of her was lovely. When you consider the things that the governant does waste money on like the milenium dome.

Its not fair to compare the costs of her pregnancy to other mums. Each person is different.

For example my son needed hearing aids for 18 months. This cost the nhs £4000. Do you think that its unfair children with normal hearing that that they don't get 4K spent on them by the NHS.

Yes, she is over weight, but she is a human being as well. She needs help to lose weight rather than bitchy comments.

Congratulations Leanie, if you are reading this.

[MrsBick]

i think she overreacted in spliting up with her boyfriend over the suggestion of gastric surgery.
he was prob thinking of the babies and their quality of life.
who will support her now? other than her mum?

she obviously needs help loosing weight cos she said it bothered her at school but a decade later she is bigger than ever.

i'm glad the babys were ok but she really does need to get some help.

hopefully she will use the LOs as an incentive to improve her health, for their sake, both short and long term.