Admiring babies is wrong in one hospital… Don’t dare ask questions or stare at them…
A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients.
On one ward there is a doll featuring the message: “What makes you think I want to be looked at?”
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“We often get visitors wandering over to peer into cots but people sometimes touch or talk about the baby like they would if they were examining tins in a supermarket and that should not happen.”
A: People should not be touching any infants that aren’t their own anyway, so why are infants in an area accessible to the general public to begin with?
B: So what if they look!?
This is what pre-occupies people’s minds in hospitals in England.
Source: BBC via Tonguetied