I give you clear warning, this place is goiing to go NUTS when Channel Four airs Bringing Up Baby on the 25th Sept... Claire Verity!!!

[Aitch]

seriously. i'm watching it now for work and it is terribly upsetting. Claire Verity says 'i'm a bitch, i'm mean to them but it works', no touching, no eye contact, lots of talking about 'baby', presumably because she can't be arsed remembering the name... oh it's AWFUL.

but which parents actually look HAPPY?

i feel safe on here. i cannot watch this programme. i want to hold my 12mo close and never let him go! My 9yo dd too. She adores her little brother and cannot bear to hear him cry. Ignore instinct - cannot be done?!!!!!

see that's how i am can't even read properly! thanks lizzombie

www.channel4.com/health/microsites/B/bringing_up_baby/index.html

so now this fool is an expert on fox's?

I'd think a baby learning that people don't come, that its needs don't matter, is long term damage.

Relationships, and the basic stuff of them, start MUCH earlier than 2 or 3

Oh god, now she's an expert in f**king fox behavioural psychology...

Oi foxes

Ignore the babies and get the childless childcare 'expert' instead!

Its the people who pay this woman that worry me.

She, herself, is clearly blinkered (charitable) and/or mad.

Not defending the routine but StealthPolarBear - 21 weeks in I had that pragmatic view of sleep/no sleep - 3 years later I was rather less philosophical about it

Am glad I missed it, and am not watching it.

Bloody woman sounds a nightmare.
But then in the days of Truby King (??) around the war it was widelt thought that babies didn't know/do/understand anything before about 6 mths or more. So back then it was probably more acceptable to do stuff like that. it was also a safer world, re leaving in the garden, and I would presume that they didn't do this in winter.
A lot of babies were ignored pretty much when tiny as the mothers were so much busier without the mod cons we have to day.
Since this has been proven to be wrong tho, and that babies do thrive on stimulation, inc cuddling and being spoken to I would think someone would have objected strongly to these methods being used still.

binkle, yes, I can believe that, especially if I was going back to work after 6 months. You've got a point! But in the first few weeks

I would never work for a family who said they wanted their baby sleeping through the night by so many weeks/months!

i havent been so relieved to hear the credits roll since my first viewing of Silence of hte lambs?!

Stealth, maybe that is WHY Diana cuddled other people's babies???

Glad to see GF disowns her

"You can't let a thing that small control your life"

Maybe she says this to her boyfriends which is why she has never had children?

mmj - you are not alone in your views. she should be fecking slain

TheJen - if you have sky you can see it NOW on Channel 4 + 1 - number 135.

That poor little newborn baby, trembling upstairs with no-one coming to her when she cries

The worrying thing is that this programme puts this forward as though these are three "normal" options for baby-rearing

When actually CV is verging on the psychopathic

hey, even GF and I can agree on something...