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Re the gallows humour there's a big difference when this is mentioned re elderly patients and new born babies. It is so against the natural order of things for a parent to lose a baby I just don't think I could make light of it. I'm not saying neonatal nurses should never have a laugh - I'm sure they have some right families they have to deal with and of course there's always humour in any job dealing with the general public. But if a baby has died I think that's off limits to joke about and I'd find it weird.
I agree. I think dead babies is going beyond dark humour, but I know there will be plenty who will disagree. Just not something I could ever make light of.
 
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What does this bit mean? This was said after Baby A sadly passed...

"Not having a great run of it" if this was said in relation to baby A then to me this means it was a string of events but were told this is the first incident?
They were originally investigating more deaths from March 2015, maybe these have something to do with it?
 
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Agree to disagree. I already said she may have thought she was doing something nice, however noone with any sense in their head would see a mother washing her dead baby and highlight the fact you gave them their first bath instead of them and also that they loved it - something the mum missed and will never experience again. Absolutely zero social skills or awareness. Worrying for a NICU nurse.
I agree although part of me wonders based on what else we have read about her if she was just really awkward and weird and didn’t think before she spoke . I know I have had situations like that at work and thought oh tit afterwards .
 
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I agree although part of me wonders based on what else we have read about her if she was just really awkward and weird and didn’t think before she spoke . I know I have had situations like that at work and thought oh tit afterwards .
I think for me, it keeps coming back to the discussion before. If it were any of these things on there own, I'd just put it down to things like that, being a bit social awkward, a bit nosey, a bit obsessive etc. But it's one thing after the next and after the next and when you put them all together, the picture seems very grim.
 
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Has to be doesn't it 😔. I think this was said before child B, I can't find a time stamp but in the way it's reported it sounds as though its in-between
“You’re not having a great run of it” could be in relation to things happening before Child A & B were even in the hospital. What if she was harming babies before the deaths in question happened but not killing them? Low level stuff that wouldn’t cause too much alarm but maybe a colleague noticed babies weren’t doing well in her care?
 
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I agree. I think dead babies is going beyond dark humour, but I know there will be plenty who will disagree. Just not something I could ever make light of.
It's why I could never work in a NICU or paeds I would fall to bits. Uni allocated me a placement in a children's hospice and I asked to switch. Horrendous massive respect to those who can, when I've had patients pass it's usually at the end of a long protracted illness at a good age and usually it's a relief as they are free from pain and at peace.
 
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Letby asked: "What do you mean? Odd that we lost three and in different circumstances?"

The colleague replied: "Were they that different? Ignore me, I'm speculating."

Letby said: "Well (Child C) was tiny, obviously compromised in utero. (Child D) septic. It's (Child A) I can't get my head round."

Wonder why this was omitted today from the reporting?
 
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It's why I could never work in a NICU or paeds I would fall to bits. Uni allocated me a placement in a children's hospice and I asked to switch. Horrendous massive respect to those who can, when I've had patients pass it's usually at the end of a long protracted illness at a good age and usually it's a relief as they are free from pain and at peace.
Agreed. Massive admiration for people who take on those roles, I couldn't do it. I was going to be a vet and couldn't in the end because I couldn't bare the sadness. Takes a certain strength of character that's for sure.
 
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Letby asked: "What do you mean? Odd that we lost three and in different circumstances?"

The colleague replied: "Were they that different? Ignore me, I'm speculating."

Letby said: "Well (Child C) was tiny, obviously compromised in utero. (Child D) septic. It's (Child A) I can't get my head round."

Wonder why this was omitted today from the reporting?
Did the BBC not report that?
 
“You’re not having a great run of it” could be in relation to things happening before Child A & B were even in the hospital. What if she was harming babies before the deaths in question happened but not killing them? Low level stuff that wouldn’t cause too much alarm but maybe a colleague noticed babies weren’t doing well in her care?
The fact she had two comments from two different colleagues that raise the weird pattern already 'something odd about that night' and another referring to her having 'a bad run of it'. We are only at child B. It is making me lean closer to guilty.
 
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I agree although part of me wonders based on what else we have read about her if she was just really awkward and weird and didn’t think before she spoke . I know I have had situations like that at work and thought oh tit afterwards .
Part of me wonders if she was (undiagnosed?) neurodiverse, as seen in girls as be perfectionists, high achieving etc And masked a lot. Then the pressures of the job, lack of sleep support etc it got too hard to mask and these odd social “mishaps” (for want of a better word) started occurring. Even things like the weird phrasing in texts… does she simply speak very logically?
Just thinking out loud by the way. I don’t know what to think really, especially as each newspaper seems to report everything slightly differently.
The thought of a neurodiverse person having their behaviour used as evidence against them being WEIRD and creepy and a murderer when it’s just how their brain works send shivers down my spine as much as a baby killer loose on the ward does. It’s just awful all round. Neither outcome is good
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Does what she said really even count as gallows humour? Like tbf all she said haha I’m not taking another one of your shifts, no direct reference to any deceased patients or anything like that.
 
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Part of me wonders if she was (undiagnosed?) neurodiverse, as seen in girls as be perfectionists, high achieving etc And masked a lot. Then the pressures of the job, lack of sleep support etc it got too hard to mask and these odd social “mishaps” (for want of a better word) started occurring. Even things like the weird phrasing in texts… does she simply speak very logically?
Just thinking out loud by the way. I don’t know what to think really, especially as each newspaper seems to report everything slightly differently.
The thought of a neurodiverse person having their behaviour used as evidence against them being WEIRD and creepy and a murderer when it’s just how their brain works send shivers down my spine as much as a baby killer loose on the ward does. It’s just awful all round. Neither outcome is good
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I do think in an attempt to understand people we can't, the neurodiverse card always comes out. Sometimes people are just dickheads. I mean don't get me wrong, she very well could be, but on Tattle especially it seems to frequent every thread when someone is a bit 'out there' as almost a form of justification for crappy behaviour.
 
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They were originally investigating more deaths from March 2015, maybe these have something to do with it?
Could be wrong but was this not June 30 in relation to the 3 deaths and collapse of child b?
I’m sure we saw a text in relation to child a something along the lines of “it’s terrible, luckily it doesn’t happen here very often” which contradicts the “bad run” text again I might be misremembering
 
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I cant see the correlation with watching the programme and her injecting air into the babies tummies. As an experienced NICU nurse she would have known this surely and during training it would have being instilled into them that this is what can happen.

i don’t think anything much of the Facebook searches only her being nosy and like someone said before maybe the mum had an open profile So checking for updates. I’m still on the fence.
 
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Does what she said even really even count as gallows humour? Like tbf all she said haha I’m not taking another one of your shifts, no direct reference to any deceased patients or anything like that.
Yea that’s all I had seen so I was confused seeing comments about jokes about dead babies. I’d say “ha ha” is added in so it doesn’t sound like a dicky message “I’m not taking another one of your shifts again” sounds harsh compared to “I’m not taking another one of your shifts again ha ha” ?!
 
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