Having a child when I didn't know....

[sirmione16]

... how repeat prescriptions work? I had to ring my mum the other day and ask. I was far too embarrassed to admit to the receptionist and be overheard by everyone in the waiting room. I'm mid twenties with a fiancé mortgage and pregnant. I just feel I should know these things! 

I'm also the user who posted whether to heat leftover spag Bol before making a lasagne or not.

Please someone tell me it's not just me with these issues?! Tell me the most trivial thing you've rang your mum for as an adult!

Isn’t this why we have google?
I phoned my mum for advice on my child as my younger brother was similar as a child though.

Lol my five year old was the person that informed me that the sun will die though...

I'm rather glad I am not a mummy's girl.

It means I am a grown up.

My GP won't take prescription requests over the phone, so I pop into the pharmacy we always use with the request. They phone/fax/email (not sure which) it through to the surgery, and get an electronic prescription back.

If you have never had to have a medication on a repeat prescription, how would you know what they are? At some stage these conversations become adult-to-adult ones not parent-to-child ones, although they might take place between parents and children.

I have no idea how repeat prescriptions work, because I've never needed one.

Now you mention it, I'm not 100% sure about the spag bol question either. I think I'd reheat it but I'm not sure if that's right, iyswim. I'm 38 with 3 children and a pretty good cook, in case you're wondering.

What have any of these things got to do with having a baby? It reads to me like someone has put you down and made you feel insecure about yourself.

Being an adult doesn't mean knowing everything, it means having the means to find out...whether that's through googling, ringing someone who you think might know, or asking the doctors receptionist.

I'm actually shocked at the lack of emotional intelligence on this thread... people jumping to put you down further...wow.

And as for the poster who used the phrase "mummy's girl"...she sounds about 13.

To be fair I have repeat prescriptions and I don't do anything. No one seems bothered about how long in taking anything and haven't seen the doctors since last year...!

You lucky fuckers not needing to know how repeat prescriptions work I've been on repeats since I was 18 god dam you epilepsy

You can google this stuff.

I'm 27 and I made my first ever successful omelette the other day. I can cook (not brilliantly) but for some reason all the omelettes I have ever attempted just turned into scrambled eggs.....until yesterday. I'm very proud of myself

I don’t know how repeat prescriptions work because thankfully I’ve never needed one. When I left home I used to phone my mum or my gran a lot to ask how things worked. And then some years ago I moved to another country and things are different again.

And as for the poster who used the phrase "mummy's girl"...she sounds about 13.

Unfortunately I don't look anything like it. After last night's sleep it's more like 83.

Shame there's no tongue in cheek emoticon on MN, isn't it?

I have called my mum about 6 times in the past asking how to make buttercream. I could google it but I want the recipe she uses because otherwise it's not the same.

And I do write it down and then forget where I've written it. I think it's on a word document now though.

I know many things my parents don't, but they still like it when I ask them things!

My mother doesn't even know what buttercream is.

I once asked my mother what a smear test was ( I was 16 and this is in the days before the internet)

She said "they put a thing like a fold up umbrella into your womb, open it up and scrape the inside of your womb with it".

Thanks Mum.

I can't remember asking for my mother's help pr advice on anything in my adult life.

Well I'm so glad to see I'm in the same boat here!!

1. I'm sorry for those who point out some people don't have parents to call, I didn't factor that into the original post. I hope everyone has at least a friend they would ring for advice and help though I know sadly it's not the case. Perhaps a pro of sites like this?

1. Google didn't find me an answer to the bolognese/lasagne reheating conundrum!! I called her after searching and coming up empty!

1. I respect a lot of people commenting that actually being able to ask for help or being able to admit you don't know is the most grown up approach. I take comfort in that. But mother will know receive twice as many phone calls probably. 

Will now**

I ask my mum stuff all the time. I'm mid thirties. Often cooking related or health. Ds bumped his head, what do I look out for? Best way to clean a cut on his leg that has dirt in it? How many days can I keep this meat for once it's opened? How do I defrost this?
I can't sew either . Every time she comes over the wee one is asking 'granny can you fix this teddy please? Mummy can't do it'.

@Happygummibear maybe it's just the microwave that hates you? 😁 How does the hob feel??

@speakout I'm with you. I love my Mum but she's hopeless at grown up stuff.

I remember the look of shock on her face one day when she overheard girls taking about their lady bits and she said "but aren't they all the same??!"... no Mum... they're not 😂

I still don't quite know where I learned everything I have picked up along the way now I think about it maybe I had a friendly ghost guiding me 😬

I phoned my parents twice last week for advice. Once for how long to cook a pie from the butchers (I usually make my own so the recipe would have times) and the second time on how to free my DH from a bedroom as the wee metal thingy wouldn’t move and he was stuck!

Yes I could have Googled instead but asking a person for advice instead of google isn’t a failing! Google wouldn’t have laughed with me at stuck DH. And google would have burned my pie if I’d taken the advice of the top link.

OP, I can work out repeat prescriptions as I been getting them for 15 years but I still don’t know how to set it up so Lloyds or Boots picks it up and has it ready for you. Don’t feel embarrassed!

26 and single mum to a 3 year old.

Still regularly call my mum to ask silly things, like how to clean a fridge...

I wouldn't be able to tell you the answer to either of those things. I am 38 with a DH, DD and a mortgage!

Google 'can I reheat cooked beef mince?' I found out about google because I can't ask my parents as they hate me because they're abusive.

I'm 51, and have had to have a repeat prescription for the first time a few months ago. I hadn't got a clue and also had to ask my mum how these things work!