9 month check?
We had a slip in the post yesterday with an appt for this tuesday (ta for the notice!) for DS. It just says '9 months'.
Is it normal to have a check? I don't remember DD having one, but she was seeing the neonatologist regularly until 18mo so maybe they didn't bother. I know he isn't due any routine jabs. I'm not consenting to the swine flu vaccine so if I drag him down there and that's what they want I shall be unamused.
Any ideas before I ring them tomorrow?
Is it normal to have a check? I don't remember DD having one, but she was seeing the neonatologist regularly until 18mo so maybe they didn't bother. I know he isn't due any routine jabs. I'm not consenting to the swine flu vaccine so if I drag him down there and that's what they want I shall be unamused.
Any ideas before I ring them tomorrow?
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Also in our area they aren't offering the flu or swine flu jab to unless the child has other medical conditions which could lead to complications like Pneumonia (although I find this funny too because I had Flu about 2 weeks before Christmas and I developed Pneumonia and ended up in hospital for a week and I have no other medical conditions).
Sorry about the essay! Hope this helps.
Kim xx
Also in our area they aren't offering the flu or swine flu jab to unless the child has other medical conditions which could lead to complications like Pneumonia (although I find this funny too because I had Flu about 2 weeks before Christmas and I developed Pneumonia and ended up in hospital for a week and I have no other medical conditions).
Sorry about the essay! Hope this helps.
Kim xx
DS1 (nearly 2.5) hasn't been seen officially since the 6 week check other than for injections. When he was born we were told he'd get an 8 month check but they then changed the policy.
At DS2's (8.5 months) 6 week check I was told that we should have a 'family health check' when he turns 1 but that it would probably change before then!!
As far as I know they will just check general development, ask if you have any concerns etc. Flu jab isn't being routinely offered to under 5's so it certainly shouldn't be for that.
Charlie's red book has a page for a "1 year" check so I assume that is what they will do even though Abby didn't have one. However he is only having his official 6 week check tomorrow and he is 17 weeks old. And he will probably be seen by health professionals every couple of weeks anyway. Like your dd he's not the best example.
H xx
What a complete effing waste of my precious time.
We went, we stripped*, we weighed (20lb, 75th centile) we head measured (45cm, 75th centile), we measured (75cm, 99.8th centile). HV said "do you have any concerns?". I said no. We were sent back into the waiting room. Dr calls us.
Dr gets me to remove nappy. Dr checks baby's hip movement, thigh creases and that testes are descended (all of this done by the other Dr in the practice at 16 week jabs). Dr says all is fine, we can go.
Seriously? I drove all that way (they hold baby clinic at other practice in the group, not my own, a 20 minute drive away) to find out that my baby is averagely heavy with an average size head and is really tall. I could have just bloody looked at him and phoned to tell them this!
SASSENFRASSENRASSEN!
*DS, not me. Because me getting nekkid at baby clinic would be...weird.