So does no-one else leave their baby outside the shop in the buggy any more then?

[KathyMCMLXXII]

Just wondered because I am the only person I know in RL that does this!

I wouldn't leave him outside Sainsburys for an hour or anything, but when it's a little shop and either I'm only going to be a moment, or I can see out of the window, it doesn't bother me a bit.

Surely it's the easiest thing to do?

The very first time my mother took me out to the shops in my pram as a new baby she left me outside, went in and did the shopping then went home.......

Leaving me outside the shop!!!!!!!!!!!!

When she got home my Nana ask her where the baby was and mum said ....
what baby? Oh my god the baby! And ran all the way back to the shop.
Such a laugh we have all had over this aver the years

Oh your poor mum! Bless!

My mum has 3 children and she once had a nightmare that she had had a 4th but lost it (ie literally, left it somewhere). She says she still breaks out in a cold sweat just thinking about it.

I leave my DS outside the health food shop sometimes. It is nearly impossible to ger up the steps with the pushchair and the whole shop is smaller than my front room, with big windows. You'd have to be flippin quick to steal my DS, since I never take my eyes off him for a second.

I am aware that this does make me a Slack Mum though, in this as in so many ways...

I leave DD outside my local shop as I can't physically get her buggy inside it. I tend to leave her in the doorway and block the door open so no one else can get in, but I am never more than 2 metres away from her.

I also leave her in the car when getting petrol, if it's locked and I can see her through the window she is a hell of a lot safer in the car than on the forecourt IMO.

Don't know about you being slack, NineUnlikelyTales - it's a health food shop after all, not like it's a betting shop.

I left, and still leave ds1 (3 1/2) outside small local shops and do the same with ds2 (3 months).

Last week was in the corner shop choosing a treat with with ds1 and ds2 was in the double pushchair outside asleep. Then heard ds2 start to cry and seconds later an old (late 60s) lady came in to see if anyone in the shop (all 10m2 of it and rammed with stuff) had left a baby outside. Then had cheek to give me a lecture about how dangerous it was nowadays and how I simply shouldn't do it. Smiled meekly and took it but was seething (get tongue-tied when cross).

Would never have got the pram in the shop for a start (and getting ds2 out would have woken him), but really wanted to point out that the number of abductions etc hasn't changed for over 50 years and that on top of that this is a nice sleepy area of houses (not the centre of town or a retail park or some such place) where nothing ever happens anyway (crime almost non-existant). There are so many things worth worrying about and in this situation this isn't one of them. Grr!

True, Kathy. Plus the health-giving properties of all those organic rice cakes I'm buying DS probably cancels it out. Or something

My mum did exactly the same as Kimi's, left me outside the butchers and then came out and went home. Asked my dad where I was and he said you took her with you! When she got back there, I was gurgling away apparently, with a little old lady talking to me. You'd probably get arrested for that these days

If it makes any victims of old-lady lectures feel better, I was once on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing for leaving them at one end of the Post Office while I queued my way slooowly down to the other end to post a parcel!

I saw a couple of old biddies leaning over the pram and assumed they were admiring v v cute new baby DS2. Then I came back to them (DS1 howling by now -- doesn't/didn't like unfamiliar old biddies) and one old dear said I was an unfit mother to leave my children like that, and someone should 'call the social'.

Seven years later, I still haven't thought of a really, really good comeback!

I thought all the old dears used to leave them at the bottom of the garden

kimiTheEasterBunny, something similar happened to me. In the seventies, my mum took me in pushchair into a shop and parked me in the corner to shop, then left without me. When the shopkeeper rushed after her saying ' I think you've forgotten something' she counted her bags, found her purse and said no. She didn't realise until he apologised 'I'm sorry, I thought you came in with a baby'

Family legend has it that my MIL, who worked in the middle of Copenhagen, told my DH's two brothers, who were about 7, to wait for her outside the office. She then exited the office and went all the way home (suburb of Copenhagen) on the train. It was not until she was at home, cooking the dinner, that she realised the house was very quiet.

She raced back to the city centre and found the boys had amused themselves in the TWO HOURS they had been on their own by picking up lolly sticks all over the central square. She felt such guilt that she allowed them to bring two enormous sacks of lolly sticks and handwashed them all.

This is the woman who sulked when I refused to allow my seven year-old DS to come and stay with her for a week.

no!!!!!!!

I lef my baby outside a post office today!

Libra, my mum did this!

I was only about a week old and she wasn't used to haveing a baby. She left me outside a local co-op (was normal to do this in 1980) and came out and went home!

Kimi, my mum was left outside the shop by her sisters... she was the last of 9 though so... what is the opposite of perfect first baby syndrome?

I havnt read all of these threads but i could personally NEVER leave dd outside a shop, not even local shops.

Id be so worrid!!! If i cant get in the shop then its tough!!! lol

OK so how about leaving sleeping infants in the house while nipping out for a few minutes... ? Or indeed a night in the pub??

LMFAO madamez

This was why internet shopping was invented - so you can shop and bf at the same time.

My oldest brother was left outside the library by my mum - dashed back to get him, to be met by grim-faced MIL (who hated her) pushing the pram home. She was never allowed to forget it..

With DS1 I never took may hand of the pushchair incase he was abducted.I have left baby in locked car when paying for petrol, but now won't be able to thanks to HotXMum.
I was talking to my sister earlier today and she told me that when I was a baby my childminder, who lived opposite us, would leave me in the pram in her front garden and my brother and sisters ( then aged 9, 10 & 11) would collect me on the way home from school.

My FIL left DH in his pram, outside a shop and went home without him! It was in 1968 and DH was an exceptionally demanding baby, so family legend has it that it was deliberate.

How times have changed!

in 1983 my mum left my sister outside the post office and then went home without out her. got home and realised she had left her and ran all the way back to get her!

This is why we need more pay at the pump petrol stations. I know there are a few popping up, but in USA they are the norm. I hate having to actually go into the shop, queue and then pay when I visit the UK. That solves one of the problems!