that poor little baby - WTF was the mother thinking???

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20% burns (sun) to his body and only 5 moths old here

Hurrah for the PCSO who intervened. I hope the baby makes a full recovery.

She was to busy trying to get a tan maybe.....

Hope the baby makes a speedy recovery, poor thing

Poor little thing must be in agony Hope he has a speedy recovery...

We used to live in a town with a specialist burns unit. In the winter, most of the children admitted had spilled hot drinks on themselves, and in the summer it was sunburn. These were serious burns enough that they couldn't just be managed in a normal hospital, but had to go to the third line referral, regional centre. And the childrens ward was pretty much full during the summer. Unbelievable really

poor little thing must have been in agony - I've just had a shower and the water on my slightly red arms stung like mad, 20% burns...>

Dear god some people are dumb.

I have spent the last week, applying sunscreen/covering pram etc etc etc.

OMG!!!
my 5 YEAR old has never caught the sun (slight colour to his face this year) But I use F50 on mine. DS2 (age 2) gets reactions off suncreams, but I still use the really mild ones if he's in the sun - rather get prickly heat rash than sunburn!

Poor baby - must be in agony.

surely that wee boy would have been crying with the heat on him.

this stuff should be taught in schools. clearly the message is notgetting out there.

I want to say we don't know the full story etc etc.

But tiny immobile babies are sooo easy to protect from the sun. Just get a sunshade/parason/sit in the shade. It's not like when they can run around or anything.

I saw photos on facebook of a friend's 3 month old baby on the beach, no hat, not in the shade. The baby has red hair and very fair skin too. Hopefully she was in the shade for most of the day.

Shocking! The mother is 29 years old, there is just no excuse for this!

i just read that

it's absolutely shocking

no excuse for it whatsoever! if 2 passing PCSO's could see he was clearly sunburnt then there is no reason why his mother couldn't

i really hope he is ok

No, there IS no excuse for this I agree. If you don't know the basics on how to care for your baby then you need some help.

Which I hope she gets. But by god I hope she gets read the riot act. Some people just don't think.

Surely everyone knows to use f50+ on their children nowadays? There really is no excuse.

Depraved indifference?

actually F25+ is fine according to Sunsafe. But regardless she obviously didn't bother with any, or pay any attention to how he was doing in the heat

Thoroughly agree with withorwithoutyou that we don't have the full story, but then as thisis says, two passing PCSOs could see that there was a problem.

But good grief, poor baby

Oh I missed this bit; "the baby's skin had already started to show signs of blistering"

Do they mean he was already blistering on the beach?

I'm not sure - it's been updated since I first saw it. It sounds like that doesn't it!

bloody hell - just realised the story has also been changed to say 40% of his body - not the initial 20%

was maybe one of the folk on here on thread yesterday who don't think that the UK is hot enough for sunscreen?????????

Really, lal? Where? (sorry, that sounds aggressive - I'm asking genuinely as I'm )

here

This baby was basically under a grill wasn't he? That's really horrible A child so young can't protect himself or move out of the sun at all. Thank God those PCSO's were passing and rescued him.

I don't think for a minute mum (or dad) meant to harm the baby but you do have to wonder about their total lack of common sense. Poor little mite

Thanks, lal.

I think the UK need to do something along the lines of what they do in Australia - Slip Slop Slap - I know its different as they have a massive hole in the Ozone above them, but seriously, us Brits need to be educated. I know people who don't use sunscreen on the DC's in the UK, as they're not on holiday. The amount of adults (and children) that I have seen sunburnt over the past few days have been beyond belief. Thankfully I haven't seen any babies, but parents are clearly not protecting their children.