I've just been reading a thread about a poor mother who has had terrible support in hospital with her TT'd baby, and it's making me so cross that none of the baby "experts" check for TT, or even recognise it when it's pointed out to them.
My DS has a TT. It was eventually snipped after 11 weeks, following weeks of battles with mw's, hv's and gp's. If he had been my first baby, I'd have stopped bfing him before he was a week old. It's a disgrace.
Realistically, is there any way that a TT check could be introduced to new baby checks?
How would someone go about starting a campaign to raise awareness of this, and does anyone else think it would be worthwhile trying to do this?
I know I'm rambling here, and probably not making much sense, but this makes me so cross, and I wouldn't know the first thing to start a campaign like this, but I know so many people who tried but couldn't bf, and feel like failures and feel guilty because they couldn't feed their baby, when a simple check could have stopped these problems in their tracks.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this?