I was in a shop yesterday with my DCs and noticed a pram parked in the middle of the shop. The baby in the pram started to cry and from the "wah - wah" noise, you could tell that it was a newborn. The shop was a charity shop and so full of old ladies who promptly started to coo over the baby and jiggle the pram to try and calm the baby. The baby however, got more and more distressed to the point where I started feeling really uncomfortable.
After about 5 minutes of screaming, one of the old ladies called over to a woman who was browsing on the other side of the shop and said something about the baby wanting something or other. The woman looked really angry and said "for God's sake, he's crying, he cries all the time, so what?" By this time, I had gone over to the baby - he could only have been about 2 - 3 weeks old and there was a bottle of formula propped up against him and a load of sick coming out of his mouth. I said to the woman (really politely), "oh excuse me, your baby's been sick". She just tutted and ignored me and carried on rifling through the clothes. I then said "do you want me to hold him while you carry on with your shopping?" By this time, the baby's screaming was enough to break the shop windows. She said "no, he's crying, that's what babies do. Cry." After a bit, she left the shop with the pram and we were all just stood there a bit taken aback.
Anyway, I felt so bad for this baby - he was clearly uncomfortable/in distress and she so clearly didnt give a shit. I'm not judging her for having a baby that's cried in a public place - we've all been there - but to be totally unconcerned that your baby is in distress was awful.
This really upset me and upset DS1 as well. We were sorting out some old baby clothes last night and he asked me if we could give some of the old clothes to the baby in the shop.
I just couldn't understand this women's attitude - if you really cannot be arsed to look after a baby and are blatantly so unconcerned for it's happiness, then why have it in the first place?
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Tryharder · 22/04/2009 16:07
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TheHedgeWitchIsNAK ·
22/04/2009 16:59
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