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  • Mupette
    Mupette Posts: 4,599 Forumite
    merlin68 wrote: »
    I never said I was fit too work, I have mental illness, osteoarthiritis, Emphysema, which they first said i hadn't got , but now decided i have. And also just been diagnosed with a pituatiry tumour. So no i am not fit for work. but Atos seem to think that if you can breathe and have two arms and legs that you can work. I do the job, but come home and sleep, for the rest of the day.
    Perhaps when you have your medical and they deem you fit for work. Like they have so many others, you might think again.


    They did, i appealed, they were given factual information. I won.
    this isnt one up manship of who's more disabled, And i am not getting into a conversation with you about that. This is about you and how you had got nasty about Twinkle, more so went on to have a go at Sinlge Parents.
    How come there's so many single parents. yet they all seem to be pregnant?
    Doesn't the job centre, think hang on, another one.
    They must be in a relationship. Someone I knew had 5 children by the same Dad, it was only when no 6 was born by a different one that they investigated.
    But because so many posters on there had a go at you about that you change your tune and say....
    I meant single parents who claim to be single, yet have partners that don't live with them
    .

    You sound so bitter, you make assumptions and assume us single mums are all the same. You are wrong, face up to it and move on.
    GNU
    Terry Pratchett
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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    darlyd wrote: »
    I was not allowed out of the hospital until someone fetched a car seat in for baby. (DD1 nearly 13 years ago).

    We didn't have a car seat when my DS was born (he's now 6) and OH walked home with him from the hospital!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    tiamai_d wrote: »
    Because you need one to get your baby out the hospital. Its part of their policy that the baby is strapped into a carseat and the nurse carries the car seat over the threshold of the hospital.

    That's a half-witted policy! What about new parents who don't use cars?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    delain wrote: »
    Yes they do insist you go home in a car with a car seat. If you don't drive they insist you take a taxi WITH A CAR SEAT!

    It clearly states in the hospital policy here that they don't allow newborns to go home by walking (ie in a buggy) or on public transport.

    I'd tell them to sod off, personally. Fortunately, my local hospital doesn't have such a stupid policy.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • puddy
    puddy Posts: 12,709 Forumite
    its interesting how many people think that because something is 'policy' it must be legally possible. as i said, hospitals do not aquire PR of children, that lies with the parent, the most they could do is call the police to ask for them to invoke police powers if the child is at risk. but walking home with your own parent or -horror of horrors- getting on the bus doesnt really make the mark unless there are some exceptional circs like health needs or disability, even then its questionable that there is risk
  • delain
    delain Posts: 7,700 Forumite
    My point on that would be that no one wants to be labelled as 'awkward' or 'obstructive' when your baby could be only hours old. The hospital will inform the HV who may then take it on herself to poke her nose... and who wants the powers that be on their back from day one over something so easily avoided!
    Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession :o:o
  • peachyprice
    peachyprice Posts: 22,346 Forumite
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    delain wrote: »
    My point on that would be that no one wants to be labelled as 'awkward' or 'obstructive' when your baby could be only hours old. The hospital will inform the HV who may then take it on herself to poke her nose... and who wants the powers that be on their back from day one over something so easily avoided!

    Ah, but contrary to popular belief you don't have to let a HV into you home to get the chance to poke her nose ;)
    Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear
  • delain
    delain Posts: 7,700 Forumite
    edited 19 August 2011 at 9:57AM
    peachyprice wrote: »
    Ah, but contrary to popular belief you don't have to let a HV into you home to get the chance to poke her nose ;)

    I know you don't have to... but it's another one of their red flags, they'll just make up some phony 'concern' and send SS round, especially if you kicked off about the car seat on the way home which is a rule they percieve to be for the child's safety and wellbeing.
    Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession :o:o
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    I'm not nearly scared enough of a midwife / HV / SS to cave in.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Caroline73_2
    Caroline73_2 Posts: 2,654 Forumite
    A phone rings
    "hello, social work dept"
    "hello midwife here. We had a patient leave here today and take her baby with her in a pushchair. Can you go around her house and ensure she isn't beating/neglecting/emotionally abusing her baby."
    "of course. It's a good job you have time to do this referral which would need to be filed on paper also. Wards must be quiet at the moment but I know you are over staffed anyway."
    "i will complete that referal once I get back from my lunch break. When will you visit?"
    "its not like I have lots of child welfare conferences or home visits to do so I'll go this afternoon, especially with the severity of your allegations of a child in a pushchair."

    Later at the mothers...
    "hello I'm from social services. I believe you just had a baby and walked your baby home in a pushchair."
    "yes I did. is their a problem?"


    Fill the rest in yourselves.
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