I don't lie but I don't go there looking for info, I just say things are going great (which they are) and if I want to find out something look on here. Mine is just bonkers or deaf I am not sure which, she asks the same question over and over and never seems to take in any answer, and at the last appointment they are now doing this new thing where they ask you questions and follow different pathways and she was reading the ones for 2 year olds, my daughter was 4 months and I had to point it out to her. All the girls in our mothers group have similar stories. I only go to get DD weighed and measured, she is nice enough but just not useful at all and is off in a world of her own - and I can never be sure that she is giving the right info for the age DD is at.

I prefer her to the other stand in's though, one insisted should be waking DD at night despite ok weight gains, that was after I had to point out to her that DD was 12 weeks not 12 months. The other one who did the home visit - first question was who would look after DD if I was sick and was like an interrogation (she really made me feel like because neither DH or I have any family here in Melbourne that we shouldn't have had a baby not what you need on day 4), then she said no mothers group for ages and I shouldn't be disappointed because shouldn't be out socialising till at least 12 weeks, no lansinoh on nipples because softens them up and what need is fresh air and sunshine (it was middle of winter in Melbourne) and also she put me off taking DD for early ultrasound because she said that normally they want to rescan at 6 weeks anyway, DD's hip was so bad it would have shown up at early ultrasound and they would have started treatment straight away. (Anyway is all good now as got treatment started at 6 weeks and has responded really well brace only for sleeping in now - but I really think she should have been saying go get the ultrasound done). I do know people from different councils who really like theirs and find them very useful so is the luck of the draw really depending on where you live.