Riding with baby strapped to chest

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Driving back this afternoon, and saw a couple of people out for a hack on a fairly busy local road. One of the women had a fairly small baby in a sling on her chest.
Purely out of interest, is it illegal to do that (child endangerment etc) or just wonderfully stupid?
 
Wonderfully stupid!! I admit to having my 10 month old passed up to me for a quick sit with mummy for all of a minute and that was enough to have other people hyper ventilating but to actually venture off with a baby on a hack! Mind boggles...
 
That image gives me shivers down my spine. How stupid.

No matter how safe you think your horse is, you just never know what could happen.
 
Jeepers. That's just beyond comprehension. Although (just pondering), a lot of women ride into late pregnancy - is that any better/ worse?
 
You can't teach stupid.

However, as Orca mentioned, I was riding when I was 8 months pregnant, and although I realise that a baby in utero is far more protected, I still, in a fashion, chose to risk her safety. So perhaps my starting comment could have also applied to me :(
 
Enfys said:
You can't teach stupid.

However, as Orca mentioned, I was riding when I was 8 months pregnant, and although I realise that a baby in utero is far more protected, I still, in a fashion, chose to risk her safety. So perhaps my starting comment could have also applied to me :(
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I'm definitely not calling anyone stupid for the choices they make. Having 'done' pregnancy four times over, I'm a little beyond other people telling me what I should and shouldn't do myself at this stage :D.

Our unborns are subjected to risk via our choices every single day (I was hit head on by another car at 70mph, at 34 wks, for example). Yes, babies have more protection in utero but I'm sure most of us have had accidents on (or rather, off) horse back and have suffered broken bones and/ internal injuries as a consequence. There is no reason why babies in utero would experience some kind of supernatural protection, so unfortunately, they are at risk but at what point do we draw the line when making choices regarding what is 'right or wrong' for other women and their babies, either in utero or out?
 
Riding while pregnant is risky, but the option is ride or not ride, risk or no risk. The baby is not an independent life. That, I understand.

In this case there are a dozen other options. Get a babysitter, pay a nursery, ride in an arena and leave the baby strapped into a seat by the side (outside the fence!), etc

Riding with a baby in a sling along a ROAD, words fail me.
 
Unless that baby was strapped to her chest to be galloped to the nearest A&E for emergency live saving treatment......erm, no.

This does not reach my level of approval.

Considering I have low standards, this is saying something.
 
Incredibly fool hardy, how could she live with herself if the unspeakable happened :(?

In an equally stupid move, I see a woman out on her horse with her dog attached by a long lead to her d ring.
 
I also rode when pregnant but I did make some compromises by not jumping and not going out on the road! To put a baby in a sling and ride along a road is terrible.
 
AmieeT said:
Pretty sure it's the law that under 14s have to wear a hat? So possibly actually illegal.

Even if it's not, no matter how safe the horse it it's a reckless, selfish and idiotic thing to do.
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Yes, it is!

I can only imagine what would happen if she fell on the baby from that height,let alone for stray hooves...
 
Very stupid thing imagine if they fell off and landed on the baby.

Think it actually beats the following for stupidity and that says something - saw on my fb at the weekend - 2 teenagers stood up on their ponies backs in socks with no hats on. The caption - "pony surfing" yeah really funny was so tempted to comment. ..
 
Joining in the overwhelming condemnation .... stupiditity beyond measure. I once saw someone with a very small baby in one of those backpack/baby's eat type things riding along a busy road near me. She was wearing a hard hat, but the baby wasn't!!

Just what do these people use for brains??? Unbelievable!!!
 
Falling is not the only thing. If a bird flew out and the horse threw his head up the baby could be squished. How can rider dismount safely? What if she got off and horse moved and she lost balance and fell? If she took baby off to hand to friend what if strap slipped?

You can what if any number of situations and as a risk rule them out - let's face it falling on the road is "quite" rare - but less dangerous things happen so much more often and those incidences could be fatal to such a small child.
 
Whaaaat!! When I bought our baby carrier it had a couple of symbols on the box of activities you shouldn't participate in whilst using it. Horse riding was one of those and i remember thinking ha ha yeah who would. I did ride through my pregnancies though which I know other people have their views on but, wtf!! Idiot!
 
sarcasm_queen said:
Driving back this afternoon, and saw a couple of people out for a hack on a fairly busy local road. One of the women had a fairly small baby in a sling on her chest.
Purely out of interest, is it illegal to do that (child endangerment etc) or just wonderfully stupid?
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Totally insane - dangerous - irresponsible - ludicrous.

NSPCC should be called - only takes one wrong move - and could get in fatality


I suppose will see saddle bags for babies next!!!!!!:D
 
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