I had my dd's 9 month review yesterday. I know health visitors get a bad rep but I've always had an OK experience with them, mostly their visits have been brief and the last one i saw was genuinely lovely and made me feel better about dd's sleeping (or lack thereof).
Yesterday though I didn't have a great experience, firstly the appointment was in the same room as another mum & baby and we could overhear eachother's conversations across the room, I thought this was a bit shit seeing as it's a small town and lots of people go to the same baby groups, not sure anyone would find it easy to say they weren't coping, or had pnd or whatever in front of other mums.
Then the HV said from my questionnaire that my dd had scored a bit low on communication as she doesn't clap when I ask her to or copy sounds. She does babble consonants and will hand toys to me when I ask etc.
She just told me to sing nursery rhymes and read books with her (both of which we do anyway).
Then she asked me if she was using cutlery yet! Which I thought was a bit weird.
I came away feeling like my dd is behind on stuff when my gut instinct is that she's fine.
Oh and she also told me to only bf morning and night so that she ups her solids and sleeps better. Now my instinct tells me that's not right either but am happy for someone to tell me otherwise!
What would you think if you had this appointment? Would you feel happy with the experience? Not sure if I'm just being sensitive!