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Patronising Health Visitors
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Is it part of the training for Health Visitors that they have to be patronising? Just had two round to do the 3 1/4 development checks on the 'twins' and I just wanted to tell them to get out. And they've thrown my routine all out whack!
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They obviously haven't changed since my daughter was little then and that was 40 years ago. I was told not to let her cry as her weight would go down so we had 10 months of no sleep! In the end, after my husband fell asleep at work twice I took her to the doctors who said put her down and leave her! He said if the health visitors say you mustn't leave her at night then phone them up at 2am, 4am etc when the baby was screaming, he said that they would soon tell me the same thing to let her cry for a while!
When I had my son a health visitor said that one side of his face was fatter than the other and it was serious - again it was nothing wrong!
When I had my son a health visitor said that one side of his face was fatter than the other and it was serious - again it was nothing wrong!
It always amazes me that all the health visitors I've ever seen have never had children.
The first health visitor I had told me off for using talc, then told me off for swaddling my son in a blanket, made me feel awful for bottle feeding... etc, etc. We can all open a text book, just wait until you have children yourself, before you start with the patronising!
The first health visitor I had told me off for using talc, then told me off for swaddling my son in a blanket, made me feel awful for bottle feeding... etc, etc. We can all open a text book, just wait until you have children yourself, before you start with the patronising!
I have five children and a brain - they just wind me up, with their stupid, sing-songy way of speaking. Daughter wouldn't do the eye test and she didn't even try with my son, in fact, she didn't even speak to him. Felt more like a check-up on my parenting skills than on the twins' development. I also want a referral for my son in case he needs a statement when he starts school and the HV with 'special knowledge' was as much use as a chocolate bloody tea pot!
Sherr, I'm sitting here with my jaw dropping. The GP said what ?!!!!?!!!?!!
GP = grealy pretentious...
First HV was great, second one was hopeless. My son was doing tasks usinig his left hand 'you'll need to discourage that' 'Being left-handed is no use'
Ahem, couch, You're s[eaking to a left-hander (stupid witch) another test he refused to do so she put him down as un-cooperative. I told her he's not a performing seal. (She had no children either)
GP = grealy pretentious...
First HV was great, second one was hopeless. My son was doing tasks usinig his left hand 'you'll need to discourage that' 'Being left-handed is no use'
Ahem, couch, You're s[eaking to a left-hander (stupid witch) another test he refused to do so she put him down as un-cooperative. I told her he's not a performing seal. (She had no children either)
Hi Alba - I was gobsmacked when she said it (although I thought of loads of witty responses afterwards).
When I had my second child I felt a bit 'sad' and I explained to the HV how I was worried that I wouldn't be able to love both of my child enough and she said 'What's wrong, do you think we are going to take them into care?' - note to self, never listen to a HV!
When I had my second child I felt a bit 'sad' and I explained to the HV how I was worried that I wouldn't be able to love both of my child enough and she said 'What's wrong, do you think we are going to take them into care?' - note to self, never listen to a HV!
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