Health visitor appt before birth

Has anyone else received an appointment for a health visitor to come to their home? With my first pregnancy nobody from the health visiting team came to my home until after my son had been born, but this time I’ve received an appointment for over a month before my due date.

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I had my health visitor appointment before birth and honestly it has helped me.

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I have one coming up in October! I’m not really sure what to expect from it?

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Yes I had one recently, it was really just to introduce themselves, make sure I knew what to expect in terms of visits after baby is born, what they are there for and to give me some leaflets etc. Also gave us the opportunity to ask any questions!

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I’ve had one at home and one at local doctors, it’s all the same info, they give your red book for baby and go over all the same information and check that everything is okay with you. It’s not a long appointment, I think it just varies between health visitor as to where the appointment is x

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I’ve had one too already and I’m due in November, they just like to give you as much advice as possible and just get to know you and let you know who they are. It does help as they make sure you know of all the benefits that you can get, but don’t check everything around the house yet so I wouldn’t worry about that until they come after the baby is born again x

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Yeah I’ve got mine next week not sure what to expect

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I had my health visitor appointment via teams last week. With my first baby, they came to my home. X

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I just had mine today, I'm due 10th November. Found it really useful, lasted around 1hr30.

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I was supposed to be they cancelled due to sickness, they haven’t called me back. Not expecting they will get back in contact before he’s here now tbh!

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I've had an appointment through for when I am 33 weeks 🤰. I thought the same as you!

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