Thursday, 18 January 2007

Clinic round 2

Monday was clinic day again and I was feeling really good, had caught up on loads of sleep on weekend and it was my 30th birthday so all was well. That is until I got to damn clinic, I got there early after last weeks episode to find already 6 people in front of me! yet again Martha was hungry so needed feeding but its one of those shall i start or not as you don't know when you are going to be called through. So she was in a bit of a pickle before we even went in. Got in the room and stripped her off to be weighed- lots of tears and to my surprise she had gained hardly anything. So had to see Health Visitor who directed the nurse she wanted marthas head circumference and length done, so I had to strip her off again! Went into the room with health visitor and she quized me about the feeding and how often, didn't see the long nights as a problem. Then she wanted her weighed again to check! By this time I was in a right state as was Martha. The health visitor said I needed to see the doc but instead she went and got some advice and suggested I give Martha a 4oz top up of formula a day. Up to me when I wanted to do and it and just to see how it goes! Great help then! By this time I had asked if I could feed there which I did, even though I really wanted to get out of there as quick as possible. In between all this going on it was also suggested that I speak to another parent who had the same problem, it turned out she had a completely different problem and then to top it off she started giving me advice!!!
So I am not impressed with the clinic at all at the moment and was totally confused about what to do for the best, give top up, wake her in the night, go for formula all the time. So much advice and everyone had a different opinion and I don't mean friends and family I mean the medical profession!
As I mentioned it was my 30th birthday on Monday and sarah was coming round to babysit, however after everything that had gone on I was really reluctant to go out. We did go out to a lovely little italian restaurant in Twickers. It was lovely and really nice to get out and chill after the days events.

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