Honestly, I'm currently working from home with my baby in my lap. If I was able to take her into work with me, the alternative to LM taking their babies on tour with them, best believe I would! I love my kids and I love keeping busy with work, it really doesn't need to be one or the other at all.
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Same as you kind of, my mother was an air hostess often in Hong Kong, my dad often travelled for his job too so I spent lots of time with my grandparents and aunties, uncles etc because my mum loved her job so much and I had such a great childhood but I’m so close with both my parents and always have been! I think it made me independently stronger as a person as I never needed to depend on someone as I wasn’t glued to their sides.... so as someone who grew up with a whole army of family the girls and babies will be fine!
Finally a sensible and balanced comment on this. I don’t doubt the girls will do the tour and their job does provide a degree of flexibility but it also has its drawbacks. Touring is hectic and exhausting (especially when you perform like LM does) so I think they’d need their mums/families with them for support and help with childcare. Having a baby is bloody hard work and takes a lot out of you physically and emotionally and I just think it’s slightly naive to think ‘oh they’ll have nannies’ or that leaving your new baby isn’t a big deal and they’ll carry on as normal. It’s just such a flippant and unrealistic attitude towards having children. Having said that, there’s no reason for them not to continue with their careers obviously and any suggestion that they will or should is way off the mark. Things will change for them though as they do for every other working mum and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I think the difference here is being a child Versus being a baby. Babies need stability in the first few years of their lives, they understand their environment and don’t like any change to it. Last year a friend came to visit us for one night, and another friend for two nights with her 9 month old baby ( born in lockdown ). They baby, even though constantly with her Mum was so upset and distressed during the nights and couldn’t sleep, as the change in environment deeply upset it. When back home, baby was fine once again.
So this isn’t really about right or wrong choices being made, its more about will the baby be ok with constant change in location, will Mum be ok if baby is not happy, will Mum be ok if she realises it’s not working out halfway through the tour ?
We can all speculate here, but this is more about what is the sensible thing to do, rather than “ I’m a strong empowering female, and can have it all “ narrative.
Totally agree
Absolutely! It's undeniable, as I said, that adjustments need to be made. Per example, they sometimes do four nights at the O2. They don't need to do four, they can do just one or two. Sometimes, they do an entire day of interviews. They don't need to do so many interviews, so they can go home earlier. But talking about the group ending just because they having babies it's ridiculous.
Just for the record, how many of you defending LM decisions to take Babies on tour are non Mums? Just saying.....
Define non mum?Just for the record, how many of you defending LM decisions to take Babies on tour are non Mums? Just saying.....
Not a Mum
So is someone who had a miscarriage not a mother? a still born?
I don‘t think this is an appropriate comment to make, as this takes the thread into a whole new subject.
Sorry for anyone who has had to experience such an awful thing
Ultimately they are grown women and entitled to parent or live their lives how they see fit. As any parent should be.
I agree. I think it's best to not ask/insinuate that people are non-mothers. People are entitled to their opinion whether they have children or not.I don‘t think this is an appropriate comment to make, as this takes the thread into a whole new subject.
Sorry for anyone who has had to experience such an awful thing
They knew what they are getting in too and they all have family round them it's there choice
They are contacted to do the tour and couldn’t afford to cancel. They will split after it done to look after their children.
Apologies if I offended anyone. It was purely to point out, that when you have a child it does effect your opinion on someone else’s decision to do something, as you can appreciate more what it entails.
Everything does change I agree there but they already said they wont split up and there is other options then just giving ho there jobs ans that's what we see trying to point out a woman can have a baby and a job at the same time why should they have to give it up because they had a baby
If we are going to maintain these prehistoric attitudes can we atleast have some equality and start expecting the men to stay home and give up their careers too? 
God you’d think we were back in the 1900s.
If they want to stop they can. If they don’t, they don’t have to. EITHER way is ok. Women are more than just mothers, say it louder for the people in the back.
God you’d think we were back in the 1900s.If they want to stop they can. If they don’t, they don’t have to. EITHER way is ok. Women are more than just mothers, say it louder for the people in the back.
No body is saying they HAVE to give up their job but what if they WANT to give it up or at least take a year or two off? It’s easy for them to say now they they won’t want to but they don’t know how they might feel. What if they want to take a year or so off and then there’s just no interest in them when they want to come back?
ETA, just as they shouldn’t have to give up their career just because they have a baby. They also shouldnt have to carry on if they dont want to just to show that they are empowering other women. Female empowerment is about having choice and making the right choice for you.
If they want to carry on with their career, they will and they will make it work and I’m sure they’ll do brilliantly but if they don’t want to, that’s ok too and it doesn’t mean we’ve gone back to the 1950’s.
ETA, just as they shouldn’t have to give up their career just because they have a baby. They also shouldnt have to carry on if they dont want to just to show that they are empowering other women. Female empowerment is about having choice and making the right choice for you.
If they want to carry on with their career, they will and they will make it work and I’m sure they’ll do brilliantly but if they don’t want to, that’s ok too and it doesn’t mean we’ve gone back to the 1950’s.
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