That the HV checked DS’s balls had dropped at 1 year check?

[Hairdryerbouncer]

DS 3 was a lockdown baby so we never had a year check in person, it was just over the phone. But I’m sure I don’t remember DS 1& 2 being checked over to ( e.g. squeezed and poked) see if their balls had descended in their one year check?
The HV seemed like a lovely lady, but I have come away from the appointment just wondering if that was really necessary and if it is, is it at this check up?
Quite willing to be told it’s a normal part of the one year check ( tbh- am hoping to be told it is a normal part of the one year check), but I’m convinced that it didn’t happen to the other two lads…..hoping I just have a shit memory ( which I do!)

i vaguely remember my ds having that done but it was by the doctor rather than the health visitor as thats who did the 1yr checks at my surgery. it is only a vague memory though so i dont know if they still do them these days as it was soem time ago given my boy is 18 now!

It didn't happen in my son's 1 year check a month ago. There was no poking at all?

Google is probably your best bet for this.

My Ds had his 1 year review with the HV a few days ago and no, she didn't do that. I remember the GP checking when ds was a month old or so. No one has mentioned it since then. Is it possible that the gp or a previous health visitor mentioned this as a concern to be followed up at the 1 year review? Call your local health visiting team and ask if you are concerned. Or check the red book. What has the HV written in his red book? Maybe she's put a reason in there?

She checked my son couldn't find one so had to have a doctor and a hospital check to make sure all was ok. Apparently the surgery to correct this is better done by age 1 for the health of the Testicle so I checked at that check up

As PP, DS did have this, but it was the GP rather than the HV who did the one year check. As it happens, one of his testicles hadn’t descended and he needed an operation so it’s a good job they did check!

I seem to remember the Dr checking at the 6 week check? Maybe your DS’s weren’t fully descended then so there was a follow up check? Better safe than sorry, I guess?

If the surgery had no record of it being already checked it would be very important that the HV did so at the next check.

My DS was checked much earlier than 1 year old. It's a perfectly normal check to have. Timing probably just out because of covid. Would you prefer he didn't have a health professional check at all?

It's is part of our procedure for the one year HV review.

Normal OP, but always worth a check when something makes you uncomfortable :)

I remember the GP doing this check at 6 weeks, and everything being fine. Certainly no follow up notes/ appointments that I was aware of.
i did have a Google before posting here, but there doesn’t seem to be a definitive list of things that happen.
it was a different lady today, maybe she was just being thorough? I’m glad it seems in the realm of normal.

Thanks - that’s good to know

It shows how out of it I was for months afterwards that I literally don’t remember. I’m assuming they did, but for the life of me I can’t remember.

Can you not just trust your HV to do their job properly?!

Do you really think your hv wanted to cop a feel of your baby's testicles? Fuck me that's something else

Yes it’s part of the check. She didn’t poke my DS but after he’d been weighed without his nappy on she said something along the lines of “I could see his testicles clearly so I didn’t have to examine him”.

So the ones that don’t remember it being part of the check, they probably just saw them and didn’t need to physically examine. Apparently they can “come and go” whatever that means?!

That’s an interesting question- I suppose it’s not about her, it’s about how I feel as a mother and if my experiences today stack up with my experiences with my other three boys and it didn’t.

I think it’s good to question, and healthy. In that way you learn whatever the answer is. Im not sure we should just accept ‘things’. However, I’ve not just gone storming in accusing her of anything. I’ve tried to adopt a bit of a middle ground.

@pd339 nah thats how professionals get away with doing shitty things, bad practice etc. When it comes to your kids and your own health you're always allowed to and should ask why.
I am a health professional too 🙂

Did I write that? Or was it you?

I’m just asking if it’s a normal part of a one year check, as in my experience, it’s not been.

@Hairdryerbouncer you must have thought it because instead of asking her with your words when it happened you've posted on Mumsnet so you can get all whipped up and no doubt accuse a health professional of being inappropriate with your baby

Same as @GiltEdges here. DS has his checked at his 1 year check. I distinctly remember him being laid on the dining room floor when she said she couldn't find them! I realised it had never occurred to me to check and was glad she had!

I mean yes it is normal, but if you have another child tell them you don't want their testicles checked so their undiagnosed undescended testicles can go unchecked and your child grows up infertile.

Seem like a better option?

I recall this at check up small baby and again when older not sure if 1 or 2.
Nurse also explained what and how to do it not that I'd remember or do it myself.
Vague memory of her saying even if they have dropped when small could be an issue when older so needs checked again at check ups.

Honestly, no.