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school nurse letter

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devonshiredumpling · 14/02/2015 18:42

got a letter this morning rom the schoolnurse service to say that after being weighed my dd has been catergorised as severely overweight. we also got a leaflet saying that her diet could be better (she has at least seven portion of friut and veg) we also need to increase her activity level but since moving to the country we cannot get her out of the garden and off her bike ,she is tall for her age at 122.8 cm and she weighs 29.9kg but you cannot see any fat on her she is five .any help would be good aibu to feel peeved about this (she is five and half)

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anothernumberone · 16/02/2015 18:16

I miss Jane from this thread. It would be the perfect opportunity for her to return so we could all realise why it is important that education and medical interventions should not mix. I wonder if she has read the update.

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sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 16/02/2015 18:31

Oh how very curious

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 16/02/2015 18:43

I miss Jane too. Her repeated posts about education and health not mixing were comedy gold

fattymcfatfat · 16/02/2015 18:45

judgerinder Grin

Pipbin · 16/02/2015 18:47

Well that was a stupid mistake to make!

I'm guessing it was a typo. Y'know like we make all the time. Good that they recognised it after it was queried. I imagine that they feed the details into a computer and any that get flagged up get a letter. Very little human input other that the initial numbers.

TheRealAmandaClarke · 16/02/2015 18:55

Im confused. You got a letter on saturday morning and queried it over the weekend with an apology/ acknowledgement of the mistake on monday morning?
How did they know it was a mistake?
How did they do such a fast turnaround for a service that isnt open at weekends?
Why didnt you weigh your dd at home?

Anyway, that's good. Nothing to worry about then. Hurrah.

TheRealAmandaClarke · 16/02/2015 18:57

Oh you did weigh her at home then? Why didnt you say that? You knew the information in the letter was wrong.
I dont get it.

TalkinPeace · 16/02/2015 19:43

significant backtracking going on methinks

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Only1scoop · 16/02/2015 20:23

How very strange why didn't you state in your Op that you knew it was incorrect. I'm a little confused.

Apologies if I've missed something.

Glad all ok though.

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EdSheeran · 16/02/2015 21:38

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brokencrayons · 16/02/2015 21:43

She is overweight. I was 46kg at 9 months pregnant. It actually makes me a bit angry to see overweight children. It shouldn't happen.

Pico2 · 16/02/2015 21:44

When I asked on Saturday whether you had checked the measurements, why didn't you say you had?

Instead your next post said "Just a quick update. Yesterday my dd had bran flakes for breakfast and left around half of what I gave her she had some party food which she had three small sandwiches ,carrot sticks ,cucumber sticks grapes and a few sausages followed by ice cream for her main meal she had homemade pizza with peppers, sweet corn ,tomatoes ,mushrooms and tomato purée on the cheese was half fat and for afters she had her birthday cake from the party. Her activity level for the day was two hours in the soft play centre and an hours running around the wood near us Any ideas of what I am doing wrong"

You knew then that there was no problem. Is that drip feeding or something else?

TalkinPeace · 16/02/2015 21:47

OP posted on AIBU
we said she was BU
she then decided to backtrack by changing a digit

it does not take away from the fact that she massively over feeds her child