A two day old baby girl has been snatched from a hospital in the UK, she is one of a set of identical twins.

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The baby has been found alive and well, three people have been arrested, two women and a man.

Didn't you, like me, want to know why they stole the infant? This story sort of died a death. I'm a nosey sort of person and I hate mysteries.(Does this make me a bad person?)

You're right, it did go quiet didn't it? How very strange.

I have to admit, my first time around I used to worry about that possibility! It's not terribly rational but it does happen, and the Americans put a bracelet on the mother and the child to match you up! I suppose her hair stuck up so I'd have recognize her in a crowd. The little one was born outside a hospital so there was little doubt!

Sometimes I think we aren't getting the whole picture in these stories, as a matter of fact I happened to be reading the Telegraph (no comments as it's all I can get here in France) and found that about half of the stories in the first section seemed to have missing details and in fact, reminded me distinctly of the Sun, or even the National Enquirer.
I'm starting to suspect that no matter how they report it, some of these stories are played up to sell ink and paper.

I do read them of course! But I always think, the big British papers are getting just as bad as the tabloids these days.

Do we have any idea of the motives of someone stealing a baby?

In the city where I had my daughter, little clamps are put on the baby's umbilical cord stump. Then, if a baby is taken within 20 feet of the doors leading out of the maternity ward and the clamp is still on, the doors automatically lock and a siren sounds. The only time the clamp is taken off is when the mother is taking the baby home, and she has to show matching ID bracelets to the nurse or doctor.

My friend's husband was taking the baby for a walk and did not know about the clamp. He got too close to the doors, and the siren went off. He was pretty embarrassed, but my friend quickly explained that he was the baby's father and not a kidnapper.

My goodness! The poor fellow, it's already hard enough for the new father to pick up the baby, but an alarm? Must have traumatized him for a while.

It sounds as though this protection is getting to be a fact of life now! What a sad pronouncement on our societies.
We did have a little card in the crib and if people wished to check out the baby, you gave them a card to wave at the nurses who'd point to the infant.
They were very careful it seemed like to me.
The only problem is that once our kid, who had hair like Little Richard was in that nursery, she'd cry her lungs out. You couldn't mistake her!

I remember going home from the hospital and forgetting to take off my bracelet, and I was so sick of air conditioning that I put the baby on my shoulder and we walked around the block. The neighbors all called out, "Had that baby yet?" and then they stopped short when they saw her on my shoulder and I pointed to my tags!
They were appalled as I guess in their day (I lived in a fairly senior neighborhood that loved any young couples) you didn't go out for a month!

Now what happens with the belly button cleaning and stuff with that tag? It's bad enough doing it when you don't have a tag!

The clamp comes off when before you leave the hospital, so is only on there for one to three days. I didn't have to clean the baby's umbilical stump, at least not with rubbing alcohol. The doctor advised me to just leave it alone. She was born on Wednesday, and the stump fell off on Sunday.