school nurse letter

[devonshiredumpling]

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)

I think OP and Jane are doing a double act to discredit school nurses < taps side of nose knowingly >

those blasted nurses...I knew they were up to no good

It's a joke

So this was all utter bollocks then?

Was that a confession?

Hi Jane. We missed you. Glad you are back. MNHQ have deleted left, right and centre so clearly this is all above board .

At 19.9kg and 122.8cm the girl would be on the 3rd centile for BMI. No parent is going to believe a letter that says their rake thin child is overweight.

That sounds feasable Callooh

A sane thread title would have been "AIBU that - due to a typo - I received a letter stating my DC was overweight ?"
Imstead, the OP just worried that she received a letter about DD being overweight and ended with "any help would be good"

YABU for such a ridiculously misleading OP and later posts

It would be nice to see the apology letter (with names blanked out)

It would also be nice to see the OP back and apologising for wasting everyone's time.

But I don't think that going to happen.

Op please could you clarify

1. whether you received the letter last Saturday, as stated in your Op or the previous Saturday as staed in subsequent posts.

2. When you weighed your DD on your own scales.I am assuming you got the letter, weighed your child realised there was a maistake,and then raised the query? ifind it hard to believe you would have made a query without even checking her weight yourself, given you have a set of scales.
   In which case you would have known her true weight before you began this thread in which case rendering teh whole thng a pointless exercise and wasting the time of dozens of MNers

All just a big, misleading wind-up then. Well done OP, you're a prize twat (and your views are still completely ridiculous anyway).

Aah - this has just reaffirmed by decision to give up Mumsnet for Lent

What really confuses me is that the op is a nurse / works in a hospital. She should understand that nurses are only human.

I am a school nurse. Whilst doing the NCMP (National Child Measurement Programme) staff input directly into a department of health interface on a laptop at the school, or input written figures back at the office. If a significantly overweight figure is put in a pop up will say this, and ask confirmation / recommend a re-measure, so surely they would have looked closer at the "2" then or arranged to re-measure?

For what it's worth, school nurses don't run the NCMP, they are commissioned by public health to collect the data.

Blimey Op works in healthcare

Very reassuring

For what it's worth, school nurses don't run the NCMP, they are commissioned by public health to collect the data.

Jane will tell you that it is our lizard overlords that want the data.

In view of rhinosarus's post, her being a school nurse and all, do we think MNHQ may now reverse their decision to delete posts that cast doubt on the OP's story, or does that not happen once posts are deleted?

IMHO OP never got the second letter.
THey just do not like being told their daughter is overweight due to being fed too much.

Looks like Jane was right- maybe school and healthcare SHOULDN'T mix