"Very lucky to have two excellent health visitors"

We were very lucky to have two excellent health visitors who supported our family postnatally. 

We required additional support with breast feeding/ jaundice for my son and we were referred for additional blood tests and to the feeding team at Ninewells (who were also excellent) as well as receiving additional visits at home to monitor his weight. 

Claire was very supportive of my feeding journey and understood my desire to continue breastfeeding despite the challenges this was causing for me. 

My family was then transferred to another health visitor, Shirley, who has also been excellent with us with my daughter’s routine visits and supported us to seek additional advice from the GP surrounding some health concerns. She had also been very helpful when we needed some advice about speech and language. 

Shirley always makes sure we know she’s contactable and if we see her at the GP surgery she always comes to say hello. I imagine there are lots of children on the health visiting case loads and I think it’s such a lovely thing that she remembers their names if we bump into her in the town. 

My experience of health visiting has been amazing and our family has felt so supported.