Losing straight hair to stray scissors is one thing, losing fine, curly hair is just not trivial! It's monstrous! I feel the pain, Mel. Anyway, yes, we can carpool, although I was thinking that it might not be far from the train station...then we can have bubbly whilst we're there...
Nic, I dunno, I think I'd be pushing it a bit further with her - it's clear that for a birth with intervention, she'd really want to earn her pay, wouldn't she? Like, I thought it would be obvious that a debrief was part of her toolbox for her clients??? You could tell her that you are in contact with A LOT of birthing women and if anyone should happen to email or PM or ask you about her services, you can only recommend against hiring her. Great about the MCHN! Call around different GP clinics (I know that this is normally frowned upon), because there ARE GP's who will do this in the clinic for you...at this age it isn't necessary to send them off to a paed because the frenulum is so thin. When you leave it and need to do it later, the kid needs a paed, sedation or anaesthetic. I called one clinic that I was referred to and the appointment was too long away, so on a whim, I called my local GP and asked if she did it and voila! She did, so I slotted myself in. But I would have called around till I found one. There are no real disadvantages to getting it cut - there are no nerve endings there and the babies object more to being held down with mouth open than to what happens to their tongue! Oh, and the sooner the better, because it will take a bit for him to learn to feed properly. In more ways than one, it couldn't hurt to get it done!
Well done, Verity!
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