Why has Chrissy Teigen's post-baby date night caused such a rumpus?

As soon as the pics of their trip appeared online, the Twittersphere went all social services on them, totally calling them out on their parenting prowess.

'Wow who do u really trust with your week old baby. Ain’t nothing that important that u have to go out,' asked one commenter, while another chipped in with a sarcastic: 'The spotlight pull be strong. One week. Who wants to leave a one week old baby to go to a bar?'

As you'd expect from our Chrissy, she didn't take the criticism lying down, and was quick to respond to her detractors the following morning, tweeting: 'I went to dinner, people are pissed. Good morning!'

And she had one very pithy reply for a fan who tweeted asking how Luna was doing the following day:

'I dunno, I can’t find her'.

While we know a dinner date wouldn't be on everyone's agenda so soon after having a baby (to be fair, we were still at the leaky, tearful, tearing-our-hair out stage 10 days post-partum) we can't help but think that Chrissy has been a bit picked on over all this.

Surely she and John are the best people to make the call on what's best for Luna? And popping out for a bite to eat while your newborn is with a sitter is hardly parenting crime of the century, is it? What do you think?

Pictures: Chrissy Teigen/Instagram

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