spitting tacks....

grrrr plunket make me so mad

I rang them in regards to feeding and solids etc,

and i was told that if she should be on 4 bottles a day of 200mls and if she wasnt that i need to drop a feed.

Rhiannon drinks 5 feeds of 180mls, and wont drink any more than that (well its actually 4 feeds at 180mls, and 1 feed of 100mls)

and that her last feed should be 7pm and that she should be sleeping through the night

she then said to me that if that wasnt happening then i was doing something wrong.

Well i can tell you i saw red


Rhiannon is happy, healthy, settled, contented so i cant be doing anything wrong....who the bloody hell does this women think she is.

Okay sorry for the rant but i had to vent

Vent away honey, like I said to you earlier on MSN, you're doing a fantastic job and absolutely NOTHING wrong !!

Thanks guys, its funny how we know we are doing a good job but all it takes is one person to say...."you are doing it wrong" and then all the self doubt starts.

Well im not going to let that happen.

yeah, I even saw her for real on Saturday and she looked PERFECT to me Such a cutie!

Grrrrrr plunket make's me so angry was it your nurse or the plunketline? If it was you local plunket you know you don't have to use plunket for your well child check's you can use your GP or another local healthcare provider. I refuse to have anything to do with plunket after a conversation that went very similar to your's. It sound's to me that your wee girl is doing just fine and you are doing a great job. If I was you I would complain if we don't make formal complaint's about people like this they just keep getting away with treating us hard working good Mum's so bably.

My mum hates plunket. when I was six months old, her nurse told her I was too fat, and needed to be drinking SKIM MILK not breast milk!!!!, and that the rattle was just a cold - turned out to be pneumonia and i nearly died. anyway, she hates them. I've been lucky and only had nice ones, but so mnay stories about nasty ones are around.

It sounds like you are doinga agreat job Kaz. And hey, how can every baby be the same? those are GUIDELINES only as shouldn't be treated as gospel.

oh, and Taine has onl;y JUST started sleeping through the night at 6 months. and he is a happy, chubby bubba.

its very sad that so many of us have such bad experiences, yet they want us to save there plunket line...its a shame there isnt really anywhere else for us to go.

I have decided that i am just going to keep doing what i am doing, and follow what Rhiannon wants

Thanks everyone, sending big hugs all your way

Everyone on this site is a wonderful mother, (and father), and no matter what plunket or anybody else (who wants to be negative) has to say, we are all doing wonderful jobs, our kids are happy, healthy, thriving, ppl seem to forget that MOTHERS KNOW WHAT IS BEST.

I rang the plunket lady back late yesterday afternoon, and i said to her that i did not appreciate the way she spoke or treated me and that she needed to change her attitude because it was ppl like her that made new mothers and even second and third time mothers feel useless, i also pointed out to her, that if i had been suffering from pnd then those sorts of comments could have a very devastating effect on the mother.

The women was very quiet on the other end, and then apologised. so alls well that ends well i suppose

Good on you Kaz!!! YAY!!!

BTW Joey didn't start sleeping through until he was over 8 months old!!

my plunket nurse with Kobe told me he was too fat and then i heard she was talking to other mothers about the "poor baby who was born with a cleft" I was really annoyed to say the least cos I dont think they should be talking about you to other people, one of whom I only knew threw a friend of a friend. I stopped using her but now have moved so had first meeting with the new one last week and she is lovely.