Hang on, isn't it illegal to leave a child under the age of 11 unattended even in your own home? I'm sure that's the case here in the UK, although I'm not happy to be corrected - if it isn't, it should be.

People in the UK don't seem to realise how hot cars get, because we are simply not used to hot weather - we still have no idea how to cope. We jump into icy cold lakes and rivers, causing heart attacks and shock, we leave pets in locked cars, we put children in hot stuffy classrooms with windows facing the sun and expect them to concentrate on exams.....

It is easy to forget you have a child if that child is with a childminder all day, whilst you work. However, it's not always logistically possible for mothers to not work, so a childminder is a necessity. You switch into the wrong mode for a moment or two and that's it, suffocated, boiled baby.

And as for breastfeeding whilst driving... I'd call that 'driving without due care and attention' because unless the brat latches on like a leech and doesn't move or breathe, there ain't no way the driver can concentrate on the road. One nipped nipple at the wrong moment as as said above, baby is mushed up between mother and the wheel, and people are hurt. To pass a law granting immunity for breastfeeding mothers driving, is just plain stupid.

LTS