Calling all those who suffered from PFB Syndrome......how would you have felt if -

[MamaG]

your SIL came to see you in hospital, when your baby was a day old, with a wriggling 8 week old PUPPY hidden in her coat

Yep. that was me. SIL didn't want the puppy to scratch her leather seats in the car

pmsl!

i guess thats her baby!

yes, it WAS her baby.

DH was horrified, had visions of MWs pouncing on her as she tried to leave the ward with a moving snuffly thing stuffed in her coat!

i'm sorry but this is making me roffle so much.

she should've put it in a sling

or a pram

I would have been horrified! I don't think I was overly precious or anything but bringing a dog into a hospital ward where babies could have had infections and mums recovering from c-sections etc. Has your sil never heard of MRSA? I want to laugh but I can't I am too busy shuddering.

dont think dogs spread MRSA.

my guinea-pig came into hospital when I was on the childrens ward - hidden in a holdall bag!

A mother at school bought a tiny puppy in yesterday - I nearly offered her BabyDragon's sling as she was struggling to contain it and her other children

No, but they are still germ-ridden.

I would have died!! Partly because I'd be v.anxious about upsetting authority and would have hated the fuss if the puppy was discovered and also because me strongest PFB fear was that dd would be savaged by a dog while she was strapped into her car seat.

I have a friend who brought her dog (who had hydrocephalus) in a baby borjn sling to a yummy mummy cafe and proceeded to feed it titbits from her plate until she was asked to take it out. Bleugh!

I have an intense hatred of dogs in hospital since my ex-boss brought one into the hospital where I used to work as he had read some article saying that pets were theraputic. The dog stank to high heaven, pissed on my suede shoes and shit in the interview room so I had to conduct interviews in the hospital canteen with bare feet!

...that is mad! Over here other peoples children (neices, nephews of the new baby etc.) aren't allowed on the maternity ward let alone dogs!....she is very naughty, couldn't she have left the puppy at home!!

Awwww poor you with a BRAND SPANKING new baby all fresh and lovely and you have a dog come to visit. Nothing against dogs...but def not for hospital IMO!

I was actually quite pleased to see teh dog - I heart dogs, lil spaniel puppy, she was gorgeous

a dog with hydrocephalus in a baby bjorn .. AM I the only one to snigger?

aww spaniels are lovely..the more puppyish the better....my 'germ' thing goes on overload in hospital....2 hrs after being home i'm like...whatever!...lol

(have to say i think she was very brave-m/w's scare me)

I did snigger actually, even though I don't know what hydrocephalus is

I'd love to take my dog to school in a sling, it would be so funny

However, he's a big black labrador so he might not fit

its water on the brain .. so big head

Twin, NOBODY scares my SIL

She's an amazing woman actually, extremely capable, high-flying, glamorous, but right there when you need her. Before she had children, she would spend every holiday from work in Romania, working in teh orphanages and fundraising at home.

I am in awe of her and quite scared of her TBH

ROAR at big headed dog in a sling !!!!!

roffle!!!

Am loving the idea of dogs carrying MRSA btw

It was a revolting yoke altogether. Hydrocephalus and cleft palate. Tongue used to stick out of the side of its mouth and its breath stank.
She has no children and this thing was her baby. She carried it in a sling everywhere for the last few weeks before it finally (thankfully) croaked it. Dd saw it once staring glassily out from the sling with its tongue sticking out and physically jumped she was so freaked out by it.

The woman in the bed next to me had 17 siblings - (yes you read that right)and over the course of the two days I was on the ward it was like Picadilly Circus as assorted siblings their partners and offspring and friends their partners (and offspring of friends) triapsed through. I would swap that for the brief appearance of one little dog.

When we took DD to hospital for her pre-op assessment, a police dog was visiting. Blardy great German Shepherd dog (ok, it was no doubt highly trained and it was on a lead with its handler) wandering all over the children's ward.

I once saw a dog being carried in a woman's arms. Its bottom teeth stuck out so much they touched its nose. It had white eyes and was mostly bald.

My mum spoke to the woman who said "oh, yes, he's blind, he's got arthritis, he cna't hear very well etc etc"

I was crying with silent laughter

when i ws a student nurse on the childrens ward there used to be a man who brought in his labrador to cheer the children up

it was the HIGHLIGHT of their week. ward sister swore it helped the children get better