Would You Complain About Paying?

[ck1]

Somebody has to pay the bill, surely it's right that she does?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425342/Mother-given-40-valeting-giving-birth-seat-taxi.html

[ummmm]

Factor - you don't get CB instantly.

[pixie373]

I would expect to pay, too. I would also have avoided having a baby at all if i didn't have £40 to my name.

[Prudie]

If you cant find £40 perhaps you shouldn't be having a baby. There will be a lot more extra costs to come. Third baby at 22 on benefits is far more worrying than who should foot the bill (which the mother should IMO).

[factor-fiction]

Yes ummmm you have to claim CB but as she's already in the system it should be pretty quick, and then it's backdated isn't it?

[ummmm]

Yes, but you have to register the baby first.

She could pay it in maybe 8 weeks time.

[factor-fiction]

If she had been in the ambulance she wouldn't have had to pay though, so maybe we need to know why she was in a taxi. If the hospital said she had to use a taxi as there was no ambulance available then I can see the NHS should pay

[B00]

No hospital (unless there's a medical concern) will send an ambulance for the onset of labour, you have to make your own way there.

[factor-fiction]

I agree ummmm. We all have to juggle our finances at times. I sometimes don't get paid for work until several weeks later and occasionally much longer, and last time I went on JSA it took 2 months for them to approve my claim, so I had to use savings, juggle bills, cut back etc until the money came through.

[ummmm]

Labour is different for every woman.

I was born in a wheelchair, I was born 20 minutes after my mum went into labour.. My cousin gave birth to her first child in a car (a Civic, her middle name is Vicci) Her next child was born in her bathroom. We seem to have quick labours...

[DrFilth]

could she not offer to name the baby J&P Larkin if they wave the bill, they will get free publcity for life

[IggyB]

Taxi companies don't really need good PR do they? Surely nobody really considers which taxi company they use; I just go with whatever number I know / can find. And as the drivers are self employed (I think) they are making decisions on their own needs not the business needs.

Yes she should pay - chalk it up to one of the many cost of having children

[Svejk]

You're lucky they called you Ummmm and not Wee Charlie.

[Baldric]

Why stop at £40?
There were two days loss of earnings involved as well!

[gina32]

My mam took herself to hospital in a taxi as she wasn't feeling well as she arrived there she had a heart attack and died, the taxi driver still asked my dad for the fare!

[boxtops]

Gina - that's awful, but I see his point - and yes, this family should pay.