Grr (and a bit of a laugh) at Plunket

Sally wrote: Kazper wrote:    Small town and they talk to other mum's about other mums - even give there names. And that's why I don't use plunket any more. After two visits I really really didn't want to hear about the "family who lived_____ with x number of children and X number of adults in the house who smoked and have intellectual disabilities...ra-de-rah...." Not professional. Not confidential. Not cool. *disclaimer* - I can only talk about the one plunket nurse that saw us...I'm hoping she's not representative of the bunch.....

Not cool is it. We have one karitane nurse and one plunket nurse. The karitane nurse has had complaints against her, but nothing done. She let slip the name of a woman who has post natal depression. Soooooo unprofessional. Worst thing is she will gossip about you to other mum's who are friends of yours and make out your doing a bad job or at least not the way she would parent.

You could try (I would recommend but up to you) resettling after the 45min waking to aim for the 1.5-2hr sleeps rather than naps if you know what I mean. That would be the solution IMO..

Kazper wrote: Sally wrote: Kazper wrote:    Small town and they talk to other mum's about other mums - even give there names. And that's why I don't use plunket any more. After two visits I really really didn't want to hear about the "family who lived_____ with x number of children and X number of adults in the house who smoked and have intellectual disabilities...ra-de-rah...." Not professional. Not confidential. Not cool. *disclaimer* - I can only talk about the one plunket nurse that saw us...I'm hoping she's not representative of the bunch..... Not cool is it. We have one karitane nurse and one plunket nurse. The karitane nurse has had complaints against her, but nothing done. She let slip the name of a woman who has post natal depression. Soooooo unprofessional. Worst thing is she will gossip about you to other mum's who are friends of yours and make out your doing a bad job or at least not the way she would parent.

wow it is common it seams.

When we moved back to the city with DS2 who was 6mths I got a new Plunket nurse (been through a few) & she wrote in DS2 well child book the address, ph# of the lady down the road who had just had a baby.. I was like WTF. I hated to think what information she gave of me to other mums...as I said I did not use Plunket for long with DS3

The first time we meet our plunket nurse, i had DS on the change table with no nappy on (i was bout to change him when she arrived) She comes over and says "what a beautiful girl you have" I told he to look down a bit more because he definatly a boy (she hadnt read her notes properly so obviously goes by whats written down without actually looking at things)

also when he started to cat nap and not really sleeping much during the day i asked her how to get him to sleep longer than 20 mins at a time, she said there was nothing i could do.. (i went to the sleepstore and got some USEFUL advice there) so i havent listened to her since she called DS a girl

nathansmummy wrote: You could try (I would recommend but up to you) resettling after the 45min waking to aim for the 1.5-2hr sleeps rather than naps if you know what I mean. That would be the solution IMO..

Hahaha... sadly for us, that's one of those comments where at the time "yea right" was the appropriate response. There just wasn't anything you could do to get him back to sleep. I'm pleased to report that now he's a little older (I started this thread a while ago) he's learning to sleep through more than one sleep cycle, and has reasonable day sleeps.

I had an interesting experience yesterday with my 6 month old....had to answer questions about how I thought he was getting prepared for SCHOOL! And then she asked if he could understand when I told him no...I told her that I hadn't really told my 6 month old 'no' yet.

Then she measured him, couldn't be bothered doing it properly (so why do it at all??) and now it looks as if he has dropped from the 98th percentile down to the 25th.

In my own experience, plunket are terrible. I really don't know why i go