Would anyone else leave a sleeping baby home alone - or am I overreacting?

Anny_2

In one of my first jobs on leaving school I had the pleasure of working with a lovely young woman. When she was a baby her Mother left her sleeping on the settee and her two young brother aged about 2 and 3 playing while she 'nipped' to the shop a few doors down...they lived in one of the old two-up-two-downs and the Mother had left terry-towel nappies drying on a clothes horse in front of the fire..the nappies caught fire and the little boys in panic, threw the nappies onto the settee and set fire to the baby. My work friend had only one thumb on her right hand the rest was a stump and also had extensive burns to the right side of her body, including up her neck to her jaw.That memory of my workmate still lingers to this day!
No-one should leave a young child/children alone and anyone who does should be reported to the Police, Social Services.

jellyhead

Bluemeanie wrote: »

My Mum and my MIL always say that babies were always put outside in the garden for a few hours everyday. Unless it was foggy. Apparently this practise has disappeared. Unless someone can tell me to the contrary?

The old prams had D-rings (I think that's what they're called?) so the baby's reins were attached to those and the baby couldn't fall out of the pram.

My mum used to do it, and I've left my nephew in the back garden because he liked it, but my own kids were limpets who never left my hip.

jellyhead

p-pincher wrote: »

WhenI asked what the hell she was doing she said a baby monitor. I replied thats all well and good if he woke up but I didnt realise that a fire made much noise not to mention the fact as your getting drunk you wouldnt be taking much notice of the monitor anyway,she only stopped when she saw what everyones reaction was, she really couldnt see anything wrong in what she was doing

If there was a fire you'd hear the smoke alarm on the baby monitor though ... and people get drunk in their own homes, do you think they shouldn't?

jellyhead

OP do you know if she leaves a baby monitor with a neighbour?

Lotus-eater

jellyhead wrote: »

If there was a fire you'd hear the smoke alarm on the baby monitor though ... and people get drunk in their own homes, do you think they shouldn't?

Not when they are looking after kids.

jellyhead

Okay, just curious. It's not an issue for me because I don't drink. My boys never let go of me anyway, they were like koala bears permanently attached to my hip. People criticise that sort of parenting too.

daska

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Not when they are looking after kids.

In an ideal world you might be right, in real life things aren't so rosy. One of the reasons DSD was removed from her mother was because she got so drunk that she couldn't be woken and DSD was therefore having to be got ready for school and taken there by the hostel workers. On the day she was taken into care both the social workers and the police had struggled to wake her after breaking into the flat.

ska_lover

Its wrong to leave kids alone in the house for even a split second. The mother who does this is SO ignorant as to what could happen. The least of them if the child were to wake up and be upset would be enough to stop any sane person. But on the worse side, the house could burn down, the child could choke or something or think maddie mccann!!. no no no. I'd ring social services OP, shes not a fit mother, so is too ignorant, too lazy and far to selfish!!

Some people are making the excuse that because this woman is a single mother, and has no help, that it is excusable - what a joke!!

Being a single mother does not mean you have to be a neglectful mother!!

I was a single mother and managed shopping fine without abandoning my child and most people do - that is what trollys with child seats are for. This woman obvioulsy cannot be a*rsed with the hassle that comes with taking a child with her! disgusting. If it is too much like hard work, she coud do internet shopping

There is no excuse for this, none whatsoever.

POPPYOSCAR

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Not when they are looking after kids.

I quite agree.

alwaysskint96

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

. I didn't do a search on the numbers of parked cars hit by other vehicles, but there are plenty, I suppose it's how much you want to risk seeing your car getting hit, knowing your children are inside. They probably argued just as vehemently that locking the car is dangerous because you couldn't get the children out in an accident.

Whatever.

Hmmm. What if there are 2 adults plus kids in car. One gets out to pay for petrol- surely they wouldnt take kids wuith them? However there is just as much chance of being hit while parked even if an adult is in the car,


Hence why the carting across petrol station scenerio is extreme. Leaving an 11 month old alone in the house is not acceptable though