health visitors.do you love them or hate them?

[mum28]

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?.

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!

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.

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

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

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..........

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!

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

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.

Jenie - move ooop north

Isn't it colder ooop North?

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!

Not with your flat cap on

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

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)!

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?

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

Mine doesn't approve of breastfeeding.

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

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

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.

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!

Health visitor? What health visitor?

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

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

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