I hope things have changed (NHS Services For Children)

Member Name: Elsiemay

Product:	NHS Services For Children
Date:	16/08/01 (59 review reads)
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Advantages: they come to the house and weigh the baby

Disadvantages: below

When I gave birth to my children and you were allowed out of hospital for the first couple of months you had a Health Visitor come to your home just to check that you and your child were bonding and both doing well. Then after a while it was every couple of months they came to do tests on the children to make sure that they were doing what they should be at their age.

I have no arguments with this and think that it is a great idea. Yes there is a "but".

In the first couple of weeks I was told all about what I should be eating and exercising to get my figure back. I did as I was told and got my figure back but I must admit to resentment at being told this when my health visitor must at the least weigh in at 18 stone.

Next came the tests.

Because of genes running in the family and if any of you are colour blind you will know that a Father passes it on through his daughter to her son. So, when I had my Son I knew he would be colour blind. With the degree of colourblindness that my Dad had, and it lessens each generation I knew my son would be very very colourblind.

Out came the bricks. "put the yellow with the yellow" etc etc she said. By fluke my son did it. Pure guess work and I explained to her. No there was no way my son was colour blind! Not even worth getting another opinion. By this time I gave up with Health visitors.

It would be nice to have fit, preferably woman that have given birth and will listen health visitors.

I hope that they have now improved. By the way my son is colourblind and only just up from mono vision which means he sees colours but looking at a green tree, brown trunk and red apples they all look the same to him. He has learnt to live with it. I hope his daughters (if he has them) their sons will be just red and green!

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