1year health visitor

I have never heard that before! Please share the rest!

I knew about the milk and enamel. I think it’s if a baby is always rocked fully to sleep, they can develop a sleep association with rocking. When they naturally wake briefly during the night — which all babies do — they may look for the same conditions they had when they fell asleep. But the same can be said with anything. Your baby can create strong associations to any repeated behaviour. Rocking isn’t bad if it works for you and you don’t mind waking up but it does make sense what you were told. The same can be said with playing white noise at bedtimes, babies may become dependant on wanting to hear what’s familiar if always they are used to white noise. With bathing I think you know your baby best. For my baby, bath time isn’t a wind down method before bedtime, it’s a play time fun activity so I would stimulate my baby before bedtime if I have her a bath right before bed. I also breastfeed my baby to sleep because this works for me

Yeah I felt like my 10 month HV meet was a bit unlike I imagined.

I said she has food from pouches and I was immediately told to stop doing that and feed her my home cooking because it's better for her (I take on 100% of looking after her and hardly eat anything myself because I don't have time to do it) she also took this as meaning it's all I feed her so she was surprised when I explained that she happily eats things I do have a chance to make and is doing fine with BLW.

I was told I could change it so she just has two bottles a day and could go down to 400ml total. I asked then what the threshold is for then needing to give vitamins, to which she informed me it's 500ml. So she told me to make a change without explaining what I'd also need to do. Completely ignoring the fact that my daughter is still drinking the milk and very much wants it.

I was told it's better to make her scream and cry when trying to brush her teeth than not. Which really didn't sit well with me.

I left hating the appointment

I’m in shock (but also sadly not surprised…) Some of this advice is wild!!!!! God forbid your *literal* baby gets used to being in your arms and rocked to sleep! Then the bath timings?! Live a little 🤣 Don’t get me started on the “child abuse is fine if it means clean teeth” who are these 1950s health visitors?! Just awful!