And that's why I don't go to the Health Visitors anymore...

For crying out loud! No offence to this health professional, but she has not got kids of her own and is working purely from her text-book training. Surely a hungry two year old is okay to have one and a half Weetabix? If I announce that the Kid's been on a two Weetabix a day habbit for months, will he end up in care?

Every Brummie Mum I know returns from their visits feeling they've failed as parent; their kids are either too short, tall, thin, fat, don't talk enough, don't walk enough, walk too much, eat too much. The list goes on and on.

I thought about the last time I went.. and, eh hem.. it was in 2008. And? The Kid is fine. I know he's fine because I look at him and well, I can see that he's fine. He's a decent size, he gets about and has his fair share of temper tantrums. He sleeps well, eats well and is starting to develop a good vocabulary of words.

Okay, I have got an older child so I've done my time as a first time mum, attending clinic religiously, eagerly waiting to see how much weight he'd put on. I've been through the toddler years and I know what a healthy child looks like and does. What I've also learned is most mothers kind of just know whether their child is about the right weight, and don't need to see it on a graph.

I know it's important for moms to have support and to know where to get advice. What isn't helpful is parents being worried half to death because their baby is above a certain line on a piece of paper, when in real life they're perfect.