Whatever happened to Call The Midwife?

All rather odd. I can't see a Daily Mail reporter hanging around Derriford Hospital in Plymouth on the off-chance of an interesting story!

Possibly. Or their child goes to his classes.

Posted before I finished!!

It just came across as an admiring advert for his franchise; perhaps someone he knows works for the paper and he alerted them.

Yes, janer, but how did they know in the first place? And the photos are all beautifully posed.

That's not his fault though, surely, what the DM choose to print?

And a free whole page advert in a national newspaper for his business!

I know, Ana, but his older sister who was mentioned in the article is also a swimmer - one of the photos shows the whole family, and the older sibling is the one I was referring to.

It was the hydrotherapy pool at Derriford Hospital, presumably chlorinated, but if it was as clean as the rest of the hospital last time I was there, I wouldn't care to put a newborn into the pool. Let 's hope it is lovely and sterile.

Sorry - that should have been Phoenix! Not to be confused etc...

phoenix is a boy, rosequartz, and it wasn't a public swimming pool.

Nothing wrong with introducing a newborn to water, but not in a public pool, especially one at a hospital. I would be worried about bacteria, and worried too if there was a certain level of chlorine in the water which surely would not be good for a newborn's skin? Perhaps the photo of the family is not a good one, but does the little girl look as if she has a touch of eczema on her cheeks?

Maybe nowadays - but back then us new mums were dumped in the learner pool straight after an infant class! The lady taking the course would say 'give the pool ten minutes to clear!' and she wasn't talking about the children...

It was in a hydrotherapy pool at the hospital. Presumably all precautions are taken regarding bacteria.

I think you're right, durhamjen but the risk assessment would be a nightmare if loads of newly delivered mums staggered in with their newborns.

I waited until six months for both mine, purely because I wouldn't have wanted to subject them to all those bacteria.

If it is that, it's not his ego, but his bank balance. He must want more customers.
The Water Babies instructor near me is a woman. I cannot imagine her being in the pool 36 hours after her baby was born.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771342/In-deep-end-baby-s-barely-day-old-Father-introduces-newborn-son-joys-baby-aquatics-trip-swimming-pool.html

Sorry, wrong link. I checked it as well so the gremlins must have snuck in overnight.

If you scroll down there is an article about a dad and baby. However I don't see that it's news worthy. Water births are not much different to this.

Wot you on about, merlot?

I don't get it either- wrong link?

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