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The first probably three weeks were the hardest, during the day I would
have been alone at home and it has been very useful
to have actually a place to go to, and people that actually listen, but also
just spending some time and is just relaxing, it breaks the day, it makes a difference.
To have a professional say to you he's
fine, he's doing well, he's putting weight on, he's doing great, that just
puts your mind at rest, and you feel at ease and yes, I can do this and I'm getting
on with it and he's doing well.
The health visitors were absolutely fantastic and very reassuring, very nice.
He was born with glaucoma. From coming
here and seeing the health visitor here, I was referred to the specialist
that he needed to see.
You know one of the most common things in pregnancy is depression, the
postnatal depression, and to call and ask for help is not always the easiest to do
so for someone to come to you and say is everything ok often opens up
that channel for someone to say well actually not, I'm not ok.
Especially with my first child, me and
my partner, I.d say that we panicked a lot, I would say that we were in a state
of high anxiety, mainly to keep him alive, mainly that he was fed, and mainly
that he, when he got, you know, to about three or four, that he did
not do himself any injury. We've seen our health visitor a lot because
we didn't know anything about breast feeding, we didn't know anything
about all that sort of stuff, so she was vitality important then; but I remember her
coming around a lot, I remember a machine she used to weigh him on, and it was
like, you know when your baby gets delivered and they carry the baby,
it looks like a pelican, it looked a bit like that.