Baby Monitor as Baby Sitter: Child Endangerment or Cry for Help?
EmailBeing a mom is a tough job, especially when you’re a new mom with little or no help. “What Would You Do?” tested what would happen if customers at a New Jersey pastry shop ran into a new mom going bonkers over her baby’s nonstop crying.
Here’s the twist: The “mom” – actually an actress hired by “What Would You Do?” — didn’t have her baby with her but rather was listening to the infant through a baby monitor. The newborn, as she would later explain, was by herself in an apartment a few floors above our location, Bovella’s Pastry Shoppe in Westfield, N.J.
Will anyone intervene? Watch a web-exclusive video below of two customers’ passionate reactions, and then vote to tell us what you would do. See the whole scenario unfold on “What Would You Do?” Friday at 9 p.m. ET.
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I thought this segment on this week’s episode about the stressed out mom with the baby monitor was irresponsible and completel in the wrong. That mother did the right thing – only she should have turned the baby monitor off. There’s nothing dangerous about a stressed out mom leaving baby in a safe place and taking a thirty minute break – her only fault was not shutting off the monitor.
What is dangerous, is the advice given by the out-of-touch social worker to march back upstairs and tend to the baby. That is how babies get shaken, hurt, and abused. Moms need to be told they’re allowed to take a break and get away – everybody wins, especially baby. Last night’s episode was dangerous and wrong – “What Would You Do” may very well end up having blood on their hands when this is all said and done.
Posted by: Ben | February 11, 2012, 9:48 am 9:48 am
i think that this was well done episode. i think having the same sort thing but have a mom that is in a coffee shop ect sitting there with the baby that is overwhelmed. i don’t know how many times i could of used the help when my son had his days when the crying never stopped thank goodness for my neighbour stepping in and giving me a hand and save my sanity.
Posted by: bonnie | February 11, 2012, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm