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Lucky apple 
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 Posted: 24 May 2011 at 4:15pm |
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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.....
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 6:13pm |
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.
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 6:56pm |
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That is shocking, she needs to be reported to someone! We must be quite lucky here as I have seen three plunket nurses and they are all very laid back, let me do my own thing but always ask if I want more info about stuff. One of them is a bit old school, but she will listen if you tell her about 'new ideas'.
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 7:21pm |
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.. 
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 8:24pm |
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I've got a good PN - only seen her twice though. After the first visit I was fully prepared to get a lecture on safe sleeping (sleeps on her tummy) but the PN basically said that her role was to make sure I was aware of the risks and to make an informed decision. I think if I got a lecture on how to raise my child I'd probably just tell them what they wanted to hear too!!
My DD was like that with sleeping too. Would wake after about 45 mins to an hour. I used to get her up but now I try to resettle her with varying degrees of success!!!
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Posted: 25 May 2011 at 10:17am |
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Kazper
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Posted: 25 May 2011 at 11:54am |
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OMG jazzy!! I hate the different advice.
Karitane nurse tells me 150ml a day of milk is more than sufficient for DD and then Plunket Nurse says no she is wrong I must give minimum of 400ml. For goodness sake they work in the same office, you would think they could work together on their advice. Other than that I take what they say with a grain of salt. Every baby and family is different and they really should be there to support and offer advice if it is asked for or needed.
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Posted: 25 May 2011 at 1:39pm |
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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
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Posted: 25 May 2011 at 2:05pm |
OMG that is useless. Only think I like them for now is the weigh in and even then I might as well do it myself. To me it feels like just having another mum come in to your home and tell you what to do. Everyone parents differently.
Oh and don't you just love the sleep store. They have so many different ideas on sleeping so you can chose one that suits your baby and you 
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Posted: 25 May 2011 at 3:50pm |
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.
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Lucky apple
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Posted: 25 May 2011 at 9:30pm |
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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  |
OMG!!
Seems that some health professionals don't know about the Privacy Act! I mean, I can totally see where she's coming from putting the ladies name in your book, but it's actually just not allowed!
I was all set to write a letter about my interactions with our PN as I was so riled up about it at the time. In fact, i did write one...but then chickened out and never sent it. I should have. They need a reminder about limits of confidentiality. That is so Sh**.
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Posted: 26 May 2011 at 8:30am |
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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
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