Ok, I was just watching the BBC news. They were running this story about a mother who has abandoned her newborn twins out in the cold.They were hours old when they were found, but are now ok, but motherless.

They ran all sorts of emotive shots of sleeping babies etc and then ran a short interview with some woman (I think they mentioned she was part of some women’s union, not sure, wasn’t paying attention).

Anyway, during this interview she said the mother should come straight in because they think she may have an infection. Fair enough, but its what she said next that confused me. She went on to say “and we really want to reunite her with her twins”.

Now stop me if I’m wrong, but if you are a mother who has abandoned her two babies in near freezing temperatures and are wavering over the prospect of coming into hospital to find out about this infection is the thought of getting the little buggers back really going to spur you on. You don’t think so either…hmm, perhaps I’m not nuts after all.