To find it a bit scary that my health visitor, who is also a trained nurse, didn't know how to take my babys temperature today?

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I took my 8 week old ds to get his jabs done today. After he was wieghed etc my health visitor noticed he felt hot. I thought he was warm but didn't think he had a temperture.

Anyway, she said she wanted to do his temperture to check he was ok then asked me if i knew what the normal temperture was? I said i think it's 37 degrees and then it took her an age to work out how to use the machine to take his temperture in his ear. She was trying to read the instructions but in the end gave up and gave me another appointment for his jabs.

Now i realise she is a health visitor now and not a nurse anymore but surely she would know what a normal body temperture is and would be able to take a temperture? Even me, who is thick when it comes to anything medical, can take a temperture.

It's a bit crap not being able to use an ear thermometer really - you just put them in the ear and press the 'go' button......!

I would be a bit .

If she did mean to ask for his normal body temperature (but got mixed up in what she was saying due to tiredness or whatever) then that would have been a fair point. Dd's body temperature has always been a long way below 37C; 37 fo her is actually a low fever.

Babyignoramus -My ear thermometer isn't that straightforward . Also they seem to go on teh blink really easily so that was maybe the problem.Also some people's temperature is normally higher than others so i think that is what she meant.