Cooing at new-born babies banned
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 - 10:03 - Blogger
BBC NEWS England West Yorkshire Cooing at new-born babies banned: “Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager at the hospital’s special care baby unit, said: ‘Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me. “
And not a moment too soon. Not because the babies (at this time barely aware of their surroundings, never mind human rights) might object, but because it is generally a silly, twee practise.
Seriously though, why didn’t the specific hospital in question (I know it’s headline news in a national paper, but it’s only one hospital in West Yorkshire) just leave the reason at the increased risk of infection, as opposed to this ridiculous human rights angle?
Even the health and safety angle is frikkin tenuous… Heck if a baby doesn’t have a good enough immune system to handle someone talking near it – it’s going to struggle when it gets a cold.
More stupid nanny state bollocks