What is a prenatal health visitor appointment about then?!

[Thehedgehogsong]

Didn't have one last time. Is she expecting a cot ready and a clean house? Because my house might make her faint if that's the case... We are moving soon, it's chaos! And baby has 1 vest. That's it

Mine turned out to be a customer who comes into where I work. She ended up talking about her dog and the holidays she was going on. Then, as she left gave me the red book in a 'oh, by the way' kind of attitude and told me it would be like having a toddler & a newborn with my big bouncy dog (the dog being the 'toddler').

Didn't go out the living room. For all she knew, DD could have been sleeping in a box under the bed.

Thanks I'm ok with that! Although seems a pain to come home early from work for a pointless chat.

A lot of people don't like meeting a stranger for the first time when they knock on your door 10 days after giving birth while you are a soggy, hormonal, bloody mess.
At least if you've met in advance you'll be able to recognise the face and have had a normal conversation with them.

I think a lot of it is so that they know you a little bit better so would be able to spot post natal depression easier. That and so you're not filling out paperwork in a post baby hormonal state. Mine never left the lounge either

Mine said what MrsCakes said. At 10 days post partum the last thing most women want is a total stranger turning up when you may be feeling vulnerable so they just have a pop in visit so you know the face and who they are when they turn up after the midwives hand you over.

Thanks ladies!
I will not bother cleaning or setting up a fake cot then!

You could really freak her out by borrowing a baby (or a convincing doll) and installing it in the fake cot.

I could! I expect that chatting about full term breastfeeding, home birth, and co-sleeping will freak her right out anyway
I might also ask about eating the placenta, just for the giggles!

I had mine at a health centre so didn't even have to worry about the state of the house. Was just to introduce the HV service and give me various leaflets.

Just curiosity for-can you refuse to meet HV at your home before giving birth?
I have two older DD's and at that time it was not common (at least to my knowledge) and I really don't want anyone to be coming before me having the baby...Thank you

I think you could lupo. The woman I spoke to certainly wasn't falling over herself to make an appointment, she just said she'd like to come over in the next week and I said i could just about fit her in after work one day. I think if I had said I can't fit her in se wouldn't have cared :)