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My PLunket nurse is inherently sensible, she even told me off at the last visit for comparing the babies ("they're different people, and different people develop at different rates" *yes boss*).

You can push for a second home visit if you want one BS, they get funding for it, and they are supposed to do them at 5 and 9 weeks - sounds like they're trying to do a combo deal for you at 7 weeks
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote fattartsrock Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 May 2007 at 2:08pm
what happened about the breathing thing?
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Bombshell, as a new mum, you are entitled to MORE than the usual amount of Plunket visits, and you don't HAVE to go to the clinic. My Plunket nurse in Mt Roskill came to see me for every visit until we moved over to Botany when Em was just over 8 months old. At the time, we only had one car and it was too hard for me to organise to have the car in order to get to the clinic, so my nurse said, "No problem, we will visit you at home." And she did. I just looked in Em's Plunket book and she came to our place four times -- at 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 5 months. At 8 months, we went to the clinic as we had another car by then.

Like I said, you are also entitled to extra visits as a first-time mum -- so we had a 12-month Plunket visit (because there's a big gap between the 8-10 month visit and the 15-month visit) and when we go for Em's 15-month visit this week, I'll make sure to schedule her for an 18-month visit, even though the next one isn't "supposed" to be until 21-24 months.

I'm not sure if you're going to the Pakuranga Clinic or the Howick rooms -- Em had her 12-month visit at the Pakuranga one, and I was really disappointed in the difference between it and the Mt Roskill one. The Pakuranga clinic is in the mall, upstairs, in a quite run-down suite of rooms. I couldn't imagine going to a coffee group there, to be honest. But the nurse we saw (Fleur) was lovely and spent heaps of time with us at the visit, and I didn't feel rushed or degraded at all. But I think it depends on who you get. My former Plunket nurse in Mt Roskill was awesome too, so I was worried about meeting the new one over here -- but I think we got lucky.

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The number of visits is also worked out on a decile scale. Because we live in an area with a high number of pensioners on fixed income, we are rated quite low on the decile scale so get extra visits. So far we've had home visits at 5 and 7 weeks, were offered one at 9 weeks but I'd been at Family Centre that week so said don't bother, plus 3 and 5 mth ones, and the next one is booked for 7 mths.
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