Mummy State: Midwife Intervention
Since becoming a parent I have been quite surprised how much intervention there has been from health professionals.
So far it has gone something like this;
Midwife help in hospital, midwife visits for up to ten days after hospital, several health visits, several weigh-ins, 6 week check with doctor and health visitor, more weigh ins, three lots of jabs, a depression questionnaire carried out in my home and I have another visit to my home next week regarding weaning. Not to mention the monitoring of feeding, pooing, sleeping and everythingelse she does….
I suppose a lot of people may like this hand holding approach, but personally one of the reasons we had Erin was to provide new challenges, different experiences and the requirement to learn, master and make mistakes (within reason of course).
Is it just me or do other people feel that the level of intervention detracts from the enjoyment and challenge of parenting?
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