aibu to sack my hv.....

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during our first meeting last week she suggested I join netmums . Aibu to request a different hv?

Evil woman. I bet she suggested weaning your baby onto Gregg's sausage rolls and fruit shoots at 6 weeks

My MW, who I had when expecting DS, recommend MN, she said it would be right up my street

I never saw a health visitor for my second child, as the one I had for my first child was shit. Don't believe in health visitors at all. Raising children is trial and error you don't need someone to tell you how to do it.

LOL - we have a glut of "Netmums" flyers in our office - they were even sent out in New Birth packs for a while.
Ah but Fab - I don't tell anyone "how to raise children" all I do is various development checks and child protection stuff.

Fuck me - that's disgraceful!! Write to her supervisor and complain!

All the hv who arrived at my building this morning seemed shocked o knew they were hv before they said why they were there.

get rid and quick!

YANBU

I can't imagine why any HV would recommend any kind of chat forums to new mothers.

There are far too many different opinions and wildly different advice...talk about confusing for them

Then there's the My way is the only way merchants..quite frankly that'd be like having 1000 MILS on your back

Yeah but nobody gets away with spouting shite on Mumsnet. I reckon it would be a great thing if HVs gave out MN flyers. I mentioned this place to my (pretty on the ball) HV in the wake of rivengate and she knew all about it. I thought to myself she should have been telling me about it, now that would be useful!

I think anyone can get away with spouting shite on Mumsnet due to all the name changing. It's not like anyone can pull you up on something you said the other day if you suddenly start saying the opposite, if you've name changed to say it.

lol everyone spouts shit on mn thats the point
the pleasure and indignation of reading someone else post and thinking you do whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.........?

point being it is verbose,pointed and funny. not mammies being all hugs and hun

Exactly Scottishmummy Lol. I'd hate to think of a new Mother coming here for advice and getting a total flaming by people who do things differently...and god help her if she doesn't BF because she doesn't actually want to!

the feeding zealots are all getting carted off to scottish craggy island. i have recommended it,and got some ayes

so that's the place for those blethers

I think they should be carted off to a distant dairy farm and milked

tittter,that's controversial

I don't think my hv even knows the internet exists...

Can you complain in writing to your NHS trust? Shocking .

"thousands of MIL's on your back".....

I think it is quite unbuaual advice, after all if you mention anything that you have read online to HP you get told off for not knowing what you are talking about.

I told my HV there had been a printing error when she gave me that leaflet.

Mind you she also told me as it was my third child that I wouldn't need to contact them . She was my 4th different HV. I don't understand why you're not given the same hv after each child because that had happened she would have known I had mild pnd after my 2 dd's.

I ALWAYS tell new Mums about MN when I visit them. I am an MNHV and the MNHVs are fabulous, up to date and respectful.

Should have added an after my post. MNHVs are cool though.

DILLY YOU'RE COOL, FABULOUS AND RESPECTFUL!

There, feel better now?

Dilly

What I meant about people not getting away with spouting shite is that if someone turns up and starts going on about how their 8 week old has been sleeping 12 hours since they started feeding it MacDonalds and putting brandy in the bottle then within ten minutes a raft of other posters will have turned up to quote guidelines and give references. Shite doesn't go unchallenged. Which is more than you can say for some HVs going by some people's experience. Sorry Dilly!