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!

I’m 29 with two kids and I ring my mum for everything. I mean not everything but I trust my mum implicitly and I love having her second opinion on important things he.

Well I thought I got the hang of repeat prescriptions for disabled ds - but once he turned 16 I as parent was not allowed to request it ( ds has severe learning disability so cannot read or write) Fortunately the local pharmacist was able to set up a regular request!
I did once ring my mum ( about age 20) asking where I lived! It was an unusually named road and I just could not recall the name to fill in a form! I knew Mum had it written down.

DS, 24, works away and shares a house with 3 other guys, all older than him(40’s - 50’s). They’d ordered a fruit & veg box and there was a ‘mystery’ item that no-one could identify. He messaged me with a description of ‘it looks like a pear had sex with a crocodile’. Once I stopped laughing, I explained what an 🥑 was and passed on a few recipe suggestions. Asked him a couple of days later what they had done with it, to be told one of the other guys thought it ‘looked off’ so they chucked it out. Next message was a picture of a bird that had wandered into their kitchen and could I identify it? Told him to google it....

I have been getting repeat prescriptions for DS1 for 8 years and didnt know that you could ask to be prescribed 3 months worth in one go if you have a good reason. Usually you are only allowed enough medication for one month at our surgery.

I guess there are lots of things you dont know unless you need to. I needed glasses recently and didnt know the process of choosing the frames, whether any lenses go in any frames, what different types of lenses are available, how long it takes for the glasses to be made, what I have to do when I collect them etc. The receptionist in the opticians made me feel really stupid but I have never done it before!

I am 63 and I phoned my Mum (83) to ask her how to boil an egg. It sounds unbelievable but it's true I can never get a boiled egg perfect. There seems to be so many different ways all I want is a boiled egg that the egg is runny and the white is cooked, not so difficult for some but for me it's a disaster.

Oh I’m 31 and still ask my mother questions. Blessed to still have wonderful parents around still to guide me

My sister and her partner, both successful and intelligent people lived in their first home for around a year before they realized that their oven was gas and you had to light it. She kept complaining to our mum that the oven was broken as it didn't get hot

My attitude is that the only daft question is the unasked question.

Somebody has just stopped me and asked me how to put a stamp on a letter as it would not stay on. It’s one you have to lick.

As he went away I checked that I had not misinformed him.

I Bfed my eldest 3 DC. DC4 had health problems, stress dried my milk up and while we were in hospital (8 weeks) I used ready made milk. I had to phone my mum and ask how to make DC4 a bottle using powdered milk.

I'm 47 and still phone my mum to ask things I don't know. We're all learning and if you've never done something before, no matter what your age, how would you know? (apart from Google!)

Poppyinagreenfield

My attitude is that the only daft question is the unasked question.

That's brilliant! Please may I copy it and put it on my wall?

LoveBeingAMum555.

didnt know that you could ask to be prescribed 3 month

Thanks so much!
I didn't know that! & I've had repeat scrips for over 20 yrs!

I’m slightly older than you, pregnant with DC4, have a degree and mortgage but also don’t know how they work. I’ve never had one so don’t see why I would know.