my hv advised my to leave my 4 week old baby girl to cry for upto 2 and a half hours

[kittenbaby]

just in a reflective mood and didnt want to gate crash someone elses thread
dd is now 5 months and doing great

but ive just been thinking about when she was a newborn when she was v small she was a v frequent feeder
the hv advised me just to leave her to cry at 4 weeks
she said just put her upstairs in the mb and come downstairs and put your earplugs in and go back 2 - 2 and a half hours later
am i wrong to think she is totally out of order for saying this
i know she has given me terrible advice about bf but that is another super long story about what seems to be the hv from hell
oh yeah and now shes spouting crap about weaning too

dd weighed 8 4 and a half at birth and at day 23 she weighed 7 11
so at just 4 weeks old she was gaining weight terribly well
am i think she was cry as she just wanted feeding and cuddling
do you think she was out of line saying this as i seem to have seen on mumsnet leaving them to cry can actually be harmful to them

luckily i ignored her advice and carried on bf on demand much to her annoyance but it seems so harsh to say this about a 4 week old newborn

ive only just begun to venture out onto other boards as ive spent most or really all of my time reading the feeding boards so far

good point hunker, i nned to directly say why does the doh say this but hv says x

Wow, she is barking.

kb, if I were you I'd point out in the letter that WHO advice (also endorsed by the govt) is to wean after 6 months. I would then say that I was disappointed to see her giving out information which has now been discredited, and ask what steps will be taken to ensure that her knowledge is brought up to date.

There's evidence against a number of the other points you mention - if you need to write a further letter in more detail, I'm happy to point you to the research papers.

LOL at having cross posted with hunker

she is OFF HER FECKING HEAD

and what she says about leaving a 4 week old baby to cry on it's own contravenes the FSID advice on cot death and is neglect, frankly

(don't even get me started on CV, I will start frothing at the mouth)

you are a star for taking this further.

look I am so cross I abused an apostrophe

its, not it's [shame]

She needs to be struck off!!!! How old is the HV? for christ's sake. Sounds like the sort of advice our grandmother's would have been given!

Kb, I think you should add "And she made MrsJC so cross that she abused an apostrophe" to your list of complaints....