what is the betting he has never heard of it?
TheCappster
Wed 18-Nov-09 09:16:54
also if you use cloth nappies they just go 'oh you're okay then'
they don't say right, we'll give you a small grant for the next size up
Sidge
Wed 18-Nov-09 09:18:30
We only get 3 nappies a day here from 4 years old. That's 3 nappies for a doubly incontinent child who can poo 4-5 times a day due to her hypotonic bowel 
And they have to be Pampers until she goes beyond size 6 despite the fact that they are a really poor fit for her and leak most nights.
Yeah, tell DC about that!
r3dh3d
Wed 18-Nov-09 09:19:01
Three here.
Why am I supposed to be telling DC tho? And how? Is there a Thing that I am missing?
glittery
Wed 18-Nov-09 09:40:09
In Scotland we get 5 from age 3
r3dh3d
Wed 18-Nov-09 09:59:41
Oh I see. I'm not brave enough to venture outside this forum so miss this stuff. He might struggle with the concept a bit tho. As an old etonian he presumably thinks the lower orders use (stolen) newspapers.
Davros
Wed 18-Nov-09 10:38:29
I don't know the "rules" here but just wanted to remind people that you can (in theory!) get pull ups or bed pads as your child gets older. My DS wets the bed a LOT and we get bed pads as I refused to put him back into pull ups and just accept the washing of the bedding. Many of you will know that my DS is now at residential school so our day-to-day needs have massively reduced, but when he's here its a wet bed at least one a night, sometimes twice.
good point Davros, we used to get the matress protectors, and pull ups, although the pull ups were a bit rubish they were better than nappies
Davros
Wed 18-Nov-09 12:22:29
I had nappies years ago, just when DS was toilet trained and didn't wet the bed then. It was quite a performance to get something later on and I eventually went to the Enuerisis Nurse at the local hospital and got the bed pads. He is 14 so his "piss tank" as we politely call it, is massive!
I bet if DC doesn't know his wife does!
Ah! Yes! We're about to be in receipt of 4 size 6 pampers a day for DS2. At least it's from 3.5, ghere
you go into the adult size,
we got lost in the system, as dd'd school is "out of the area" I would be told.
"go to the school nurse."
we don't have one(have nurses bit they are proper nurses iynwim.)
"go to your HV"
don't have one as dd is 12
" ring this HV"
would ring the HV who would say that dd was to old for her and send me back to the non existant school nurse.
in the end I rang the adult incontinece nurse and she dealt with it, then someone at dd's school started to do it.
anonandlikeit
Wed 18-Nov-09 17:42:33
Its not a rule or law, just local policy.
Here the incont nurse or HV comes, measures the child fills in a form working out how many required for 24 hr period & then you need to build an extension because the get delivered every 8 weeks or so.
The challenge should be to stop local HA imposing limits.
Ask the HA to produce the policy that states a person can only have 4 nappies, I bet its not so much as a policy & more internal dept budgetary restrictions. In which case they can easily be changed.
anonandlikeit
Wed 18-Nov-09 17:50:50
IME If its not in a policy following carefully considered government or NICE guidlines then with constant nagging & a little noise it can be changed.
Soemtimes they just hope we won't challenge in order to protect their budgets.
I bet nobody tells them how often to pee or crap!
glittery
Wed 18-Nov-09 21:08:01
on another front....does anyone know what the name of the foamy stuff is that you get to use with dry wipes instead of spending a fortune on baby wipes?
just before i approach the HV, i like to know what im asking for! 
hairyclaireyfairy
Wed 18-Nov-09 21:47:25
We get 6 nappies per day from continence service. Initially got 3 but school were using three a day alone so the school nurses got involved and I threatened to go to the MP who has a disabled dd and is very good.
We very quickly gotthe 6 then, don't know whether we have just been lucky, but that was back in the days when I had fight left in me
