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.

CV is letting something very tiny control her life though.

Her brain.

mornign paper - a small 'thing'. she is despicable. I actually feel hatred .

rofl at morningpaper

hunker - lol!

Ohh. I am watching this. Those techniques are just absolutely inhumane

(that was ever so carefully worded, I can tell you)

Hunker, PMSL.

But to little baby trembling with no one there. I am not watching, but can imagine the trembly cry and purple face, and little fists curled up and vibrating cos it's crying so hard.

Please tell me one of the parents went up to it????

Yes, what kind of cry do you ignore?
The grumpy cry? The I've-woken-up-and-still-tired-cry? The I'm-in-excrutiating-pain shriek?

lol hunker.

So glad that's over. I don't think I could take anymore. Don't suppose anyone knows who did it in Silent Witness?

ROFL Hunker

i could not give a flying fudge what CV makes of these comments she is am out and out cold bitch...........imho

so next week so advises the parents that foxes wont go near their baby.
she is not just a baby expert but now she is a wild life expert.
I hope the foxes do go near the baby, and take it away from the parents and bring it up to be a little wild fox baby like the Jungle Book.

Actually feel a bit sick at the trembling. Is such a good descriptive word for the way a distressed baby cries. I almost welled up at the thought.

BoM, not on camera they didn't. The mother just cried.

Bloody awful.

winestein I almost had my first ever MN swear
But then I deleted it because I remembered SWMNBN
But TBH I think MN will be quite a way down the list of forums slagging her off

I am so glad I never read any books when dts were born.

They slept from just after 10pm to around 6-7am from about 4 weeks onward because I let them sleep in the same cot, beside our bed.

No one told me to do that, I just did it. Why do so many sheeple trust someone else to tell them how to deal with their own baby?

Save your money and when advice is needed come onto this site that is what I tell anyone who asks me.

just feel so sad that the cv familys will never get the first 3 months of their baby's life back

She might have been crying but at least she could have a glass of wine
If she had a bottle or 2 she might pass out and not care any more

Not according to what we saw BandofMothers. The mother was upset listening to her cry, but CV was sitting there encouraging her not to go.

lol at sheeple

And what's the obsession with having a glass of wine?

If i wanted one i had one whether Ds had his angelic innocent little face pressed up against my niple or not! It is possible to drink and cuddle, bf etc!

I am really concerned that mums-to-be might see this programme and think that cv's methods are in some way ok.
It must be dangerous for a newborn to be left without food for 12 hours, to be left outside, and psychologically dangerous to leave them to cry. For channel 4 to give her airtime is wrong.

I'm now going to have a little cry that thanks to ex-h I won't have the chance to ever experience baby days again.