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AIBU?

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to be cross with the health visitors?

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PartialToACupOfMilo · 14/12/2010 15:41

My dh has my dd on a Monday and a Tuesday as I'm at work - although today I'm home sick Sad. Anyway dd was due her 1 year check today - which has been a huge fuss to organise as they can only 'do' Wednesdays at the surgery and it's been impossible for myself and dh to get time off for it. After a lot of huffing and puffing they decided that they would be able to tag her onto the end of a Tuesday baby clinic at the health centre. Same day as her injections, but never mind at least one of us can make the appointment. Am giving this background as I think maybe I was already a bit cross with the HV team for taking about a week to organise a convenient appointment and that's why IABU.

Dh took her off to the doc's this morning, she had her injection without a problem - no fussing, very few tears and off to the health centre for the check, again no problems, all the usual questions etc, came home and I picked up the red book to have a look and what they'd written down. On the 1 year check page the box for no longer BF has been ticked, so I asked dh whether he told them she's no longer BF, but apparently they didn't ask, just ticked the box. He thinks they may have seen him giving her a bottle before they went in for the appointment.

Is this really how it works? HVs see something happening and out it into notes as a record? She is bottle fed during the day during the week when I;m at work, but BF in the morning and before she goes to bed and throughout the day at weekends too. Where does the information go? Is it used for anything important? And will it make a difference that it's just plain wrong? And more importantly AIBU to be really cross that my efforts are not being recorded?!!

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trixie123 · 15/12/2010 08:33

yes YAB abit U for all the reasons others have said but inaccurate records bug me too. when I came home from hospital with DS I noticed that n the SCBU notes it had it down that I was a smoker. I got onto them pretty quick about that one and was adamant it needed to be changed. I think what annoys me is that they put so much emphasis on record keeping (to the detriment of actually DOING)that they might as well get it right!

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