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health visitors.do you love them or hate them?

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mum28 · 28/08/2003 11:18

after a spell of mental illness,i was put under the microscope and baby was checked up on all the time.they were more of a pain than a help.how do you get on with yours?.

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SamboM · 28/08/2003 11:21

Mine is a halfwit who talks to me as if I were a halfwit too. I've only seen her twice since dd was born a year ago cos I can't bear her!

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Northerner · 28/08/2003 11:23

Personally I get on really well with my health visitor. She is really nice and approachable. Not at all patronising or condaceding (sp?) She has 3 kids herself so I think this helps. My Mum always says that there's noth worse than a health visitor who is not a parent herself.

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ThomCat · 28/08/2003 11:23

Mine smelt of cat wee, had a really hairy chin and stains on her jumper!

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oliveoil · 28/08/2003 11:27

Mine was fantastic, 'mumsy' type with sensible, sound advice and laid back. Made me feel very confident when dd was born and hadn't a CLUE what to do. And most sweet of all, remembered dd's name whenever I took her to the clinic to be weighed etc. and hunted out sample creams for her ezcema.

Sorry to hear others don't have such a positive experience

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Angeliz · 28/08/2003 11:32

mine is an older lady who i think thinks i'm a pain in the ass! Agter reading alot on Vaccines i realised she hadn't written the names or batch numbers in my dd's health book. I rang to question her but she wasn't in. The next day i got a message on my phone with the names but i dont think she'd recorded the batch numbers as no referance was made to it. That really annoys me as i should have all the info on whats been injected into my daughter..........

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mum28 · 28/08/2003 11:32

we had a problem with ours once as we were giving dd bottles of milk made up using imperial,but she insisted`you must do it in imperial instead of metric'to ensure they get the right amounts.move with the times lady!

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mum28 · 28/08/2003 11:35

i meant we were making her milk up in metric not imperial.

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Jenie · 28/08/2003 11:35

I love mine when I don't have to see her. Although must say that she is a halfwit when I do have to see her and after ds bumped his head and she was forced to visit me at home, she was less than understanding about his head banging until she got a demonstration of it even then only said "he does have a nasty temper" and didn't offer any guidance as to how to stop it.

I want free ezcema creams!! My hv has never handed out anything free that I know of.

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oliveoil · 28/08/2003 11:36

Jenie - move ooop north

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Jenie · 28/08/2003 11:42

Isn't it colder ooop North?

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SamboM · 28/08/2003 11:42

Oh I've just remembered that I like her a bit more now because she wrote "lovely baby" under the comments bit at dd's 8 month check which made me glow with pride!

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oliveoil · 28/08/2003 11:44

Not with your flat cap on

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Northerner · 28/08/2003 11:45

Jenie - Eye, it's very cold oop North! Only 11 degrees on my way to work this morning. I could see my breath!

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tabitha · 28/08/2003 12:01

I hardly saw any of mine. When dd1 was born, I was a young, inexperienced mum living alone (husband working away for 3 months practically from dd's birth) in a strange town where I practically knew no-one. The hv visited once then told me she wouldn't be back because she found it too difficult to turn right onto the main road at the bottom of our street. I thought that was really helpful (not)!

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Jenie · 28/08/2003 12:08

Can you get toddler sized flat caps? If I were to move ooop north then I would want us all to look the part.

Oh and what do the women wear, flat caps or headscarfs?

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janh · 28/08/2003 12:24

headscarfs, with curlers underneath of course! (Oh, and slippers).

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Dannie · 28/08/2003 12:26

Mine doesn't approve of breastfeeding.

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Northerner · 28/08/2003 12:33

Jenie - headscarf over rollers is a common look for the ladies!

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mands1 · 28/08/2003 12:37

I loved mine. I had/have PND and my h/v was brill she used to come visit once a week for just over 2mths! and she finally got me to get the help I need. In fact if it wasn't for her I might not have been here today.

Drama queen that I am

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DaddyCool · 28/08/2003 12:52

I guess ours was OK. She was young and understanding. The only thing is, she insists on stripping ds down completely before weighing him, then surprise, surprise - he wees all over the front room carpet and up her arm. As well, why don't health visitors, midwives ever take off their shoes when they come in. Maybe I'm just a clean-freak.

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mears · 28/08/2003 12:54

You should see some of the places they have to go to. There is no way I would want to take my shoes off in a stranger's house!

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janinlondon · 28/08/2003 12:59

Health visitor? What health visitor?

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DaddyCool · 28/08/2003 13:03

Good point mears. I didn't really think of that.

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SamboM · 28/08/2003 13:04

DaddyCool do you make people take their shoes off when they come to your house?!

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DaddyCool · 28/08/2003 13:12

Yeah, I do. It looks as though other people don't though. I feel a bit silly now.

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