Health visitors and discrimination?

Hey ladies, hope everyone's okay. For context, my husband and I are of brown heritage with visibly brown names.

We're expecting a baby in November and had our first health visitor call in August. I've built a lovely community of mums on this app who are mostly white, and asked around to know whether they had had / were having health visitor calls as well. Strangely they didn't /hadn't had any contact from a HV. I've just heard from a non-white mum-to-be that they were having a HV call as well.

I may be paranoid but do HVs target non-white parents in particular as we've had different upbringings abroad? Trying to make sure we know how to bring babies up the right way? Perhaps they think we'll beat and gaslight them the way foreign parents born in the 60s did (of course we won't!!)

Sorry for the rant but I'd like to know if anyone else has suspected or experienced this from HVs (or is it just my paranoia?) thank you x

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in our community

What is it

Me and my hubby aren’t agreeing is it positive or negative

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No way?

Ladies, did I finally get my positive after a year of trying?! 😭😭😭

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Tested positive but now having a period!?

I was about 4 days late to atart my period and tested about a week before as we are acticely trying and saw the pregnant lines! However my period literally came on three days later than my “expected” due date.. why is this has this happened to anybody?

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How did you know you were ready for baby #2?

Me and husband are going back and forth on baby #2.

I always thought we’d be one and done, however my husband is desperate for another baby.

I would like another baby, but I just don’t know when the right time is. One half thinks to start trying soon, have the smaller gap and just go for it.

But then the other half thinks do I wait until my toddler is starting school? But then that’s a long time away really.

I just don’t know! How did you know it was the right time?

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Help! Is this a positive test???

Are these positive? Been TTC for 4 years on and off, had a hycosy test last cycle. I don’t want to get my hopes up

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How can I help my son understand who he is more?

Im a mama to a 7 yr old biracial (black/white) boy. His dad (or dad’s family) isn’t in his life. Im trying to get my son to understand that he is black also and that it’s ok to be both white and black. He doesn’t like it when we bring it up (we don’t push it). I asked him if it’s because his family (that he knows) is white. He said yes. I’m planning on getting him more age appropriate books for him with characters that look like him. Some black history shirts and books. What else can I do? Help this mama out!!

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