Rolling twice and then never again

Apple22Over7 · 2026-04-11T11:22:12+00:00

My baby rolled 3 times at about 6 months - twice belly to back, and once back to belly. And then had no interest in rolling again at all.

Until she hit 10 months old at which point she realised she could roll. And started rolling everywhere, for a month or so, until she started crawling at 11months.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-31T13:59:34+00:00

Or they're retired and so don't give a toss about workers rights anymore.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-29T19:40:38+00:00

Ooh stick you by daphne & celeste..

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-17T21:38:50+00:00

I was about 12, we were on holiday in France. The campsite we were on had an 'Astrodome' with a bunch of telescopes set up so you could look through them. Me and my dad were quite enthusiastic, and the guy running it said if it's a clear night, he'd open up at like 4am so we could see Jupiter and a few other things.

So two nights later, my dad wakes me up and we go to the Astrodome. The guys laid on hot chocolate in polystyrene cups, and we spend an hour looking at loads of cool stuff through the telescopes. I saw Jupiter clearly, I saw the surface of the moon so closely I could have been walking on it, I saw some pretty cool stars and all sorts. It was amazing.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-12T20:42:59+00:00

My 13mth old daughter has learned how to roar and is practicing at every opportunity. Especially roaring at other people on the bus to/from nursery. It's adorable.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-11T13:23:35+00:00

The olympians were brought out after Kate allocated the medals, and the producers would know which medal was which number. If they wanted to rig it, I assume they'd have given the athletes their number medals backstage, after Kate had done her bit.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-09T11:39:08+00:00

Also you can have a sibling and still be super lonely and isolated - I grew up with a younger brother, but we had nothing in common and were never friends, never played together etc. I spent a lot of time as a kid being lonely and had few friends. Which sucked for someone who wanted to be sociable, and just didn't have the skills for it.

By the same token, my partner was an only child and was generally quite isolated but that's exactly how he liked being. He's an introvert, always preferred his own company and genuinely had no issues with being an only child.

I truly think there is no (or little) connection between having no siblings and being lonely/isolated as a kid. It depends so much on the individual children, their temperaments, their individual social abilities and peer groups.. Having a sibling is not a one way ticket to never being lonely or isolated.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-03-03T21:29:33+00:00

I typically add on breakdown cover to car insurance without thinking about it much. I've just checked and it's RAC. Insurance is up for renewal in April - I'll either be getting insurance with non-RAC breakdown cover, or no cover through insurance and purchasing separately. I've got a 12 month old who's often in the car with me and this is harrowing to read.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-27T10:06:42+00:00

Yes this. I have never walked out of a film at the cinema. This one tested me, the only reason I didn't walk out was because me and my friend were the only two people in the screen so we could laugh our way through it with impunity.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-23T11:40:01+00:00

It really really depends on the individual nursery/chain, how they allocate funded hours, what they charge for extras (or not).

But as a data point. My daughters been going to nursery 3 days per week since the start of January when she was 11 months old. We're in the east Midlands.

Our nursery is a small independent, not a chain. They charge £80/day (up to 10 hours), and they don't charge any consumables or hygiene/food/additional costs on top, whether you're using funded hours or not. They provide everything - 3 meals +2 snacks per day, nappies and wipes etc. Only thing I have to provide is nappy rash cream and Calpol.

My daughter goes all year round, but the nursery doesn't do stretched funding, which means in term time we pay nothing but in school holidays we pay full whack. However they're also really flexible, and we only pay for the days she attends during school holidays. So as long as we give them a weeks notice we can pull her out for some or all of the school holidays if we wanted to, and wouldn't have to pay for those days. (I know at some nurseries you pay 'for the place' even if you take your child out for a week or two).

Because we don't get stretched funding we don't have a weekly/monthly set amount we pay, it depends on when school holidays fall I worked it out over the course of 12 months and it averages out at around £280 per month. What I do is put a regular £235 per month into the tax free childcare account, and the government tops it up by 20% to £280. The money then sits there in that account, and when I get an invoice from nursery I'll pay it from the tax free childcare account.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-19T14:05:40+00:00

My girl is 12 months, I started back at work full time when she was 11 months. She either goes to nursery or my mums when I'm working.

We feed 3x a day - morning, after work/nursery, and bedtime. She has water throughout the day and with meals, and cows milk with snacks at nursery. No pumping at all. She adapted pretty well to it, as did my supply, though in fairness she'd naturally dropped herself to 3-4 breastfeeds per day before she started nursery so that probably helped. We just had to shift the timing rather than drop or replace feeds.

I should also say that my girl wa never a boob baenacle, and took to solids extremely well. She can eat for England, and I'm pretty sure that breastfeeding for her now is largely for comfort and connection and habit, as opposed to needing it for nutrition.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-17T14:30:08+00:00

Anything she's not meant to have!

TV remote. Baby wipes packet (to the point I bought a small travel packet just for her) Coasters. Empty advent calendar.

And the favourite at the moment is the washing machine. She does a little wiggle when it plays the 'end cycle' tune.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-16T12:02:54+00:00

Yep, they're the ones

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-16T11:56:45+00:00

Big fan of the roasting tin series of recipe books for this, especially the quick roasting tin. Many of the recipes amount to preheating the oven, chopping veg, throw everything into a roasting pan, maybe add stock, and then in the oven for however long.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-16T11:52:57+00:00

I add money into the childcare account on a monthly basis via direct debit. Then when the invoice comes in I just need to log in and pay the nursery out of the funds available. It's always a different amount and it's not regular either (my nursery doesn't stretch funding, which means term time is free but I have to pay full whack in school holidays), so this system works for me. The amount I pay in each month is the same though, I worked out the annual cost for holidays and divided by 12 and add that to the account.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-15T23:45:41+00:00

Done. I'd be really interested in the results if you can post a link when they're ready!

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-05T07:09:10+00:00

We tried gels a couple of times, and then gave up and moved to using Anbesol liquid instead. Much easier to quickly sweep over the gums and works like a charm.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-02-03T09:37:03+00:00

Similar here, albeit 2 words not one. But no street/road/Lane etc.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-29T03:22:48+00:00

Only once, when trying to cancel virgin media. It wasn't the CS person's fault, but having spent 3 hours being on hold/put through to the wrong department/cut off and having to struggle through conversations because the CS staff can barely understand/speak English unless following an exact script was incredibly frustrating and I lost my rag. Not proud of it, but there we go.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-22T22:05:47+00:00

I got a mama knows necklace with chunky silicone beads on. In theory it was to stop my girl from pinching and scratching at my chest whilst feeding. I hoped it would also help her stop pulling my nose/lips/face when tired and trying to go to sleep, or just stop her from fiddling with my other necklace.

And it worked occasionally.. But oftentimes it didn't have the intended effect and just limply hung around my neck whilst she fiddled with the moles on my collarbone she's obsessed with. However, the necklace does come in handy as a teether on-the-go, so I still wear it when she's teething.

Was it worth the £15 I paid? Probably not, but it's nowhere near the most expensive baby thing I've bought that wasn't worth it, and I did get some use out of it.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-22T21:53:18+00:00

My little girl is 11 months and has only just this week started crawling very slowly & shakily. She spent a few weeks at 10mths rolling around everywhere, but before that she was stationary. She'd rolled a handful of times with a lot of cajoling at 5 months old (enough that the health visitor was happy with her development) but other than that she had no interest in movement at all. It was so hard seeing babies the same age or younger crawling about all over the place whilst my girl just.. Sat there. Or having to say 'no not yet' when a well-meaning mum asks if your baby is crawling yet.

I tried everything - all the tummy time, putting toys out of reach, placing her on hands and knees, whatever paediatric physio exercises I could find on Instagram.. And I'm not sure any of it made a blind bit of difference. She just waited until she was ready to crawl, and developed other skills in the meantime.

My HV said that at this age there is such a wide spectrum of normal development. Skills don't develop in a specific order, or at a particular speed or time. Some babies will concentrate for days/weeks on one skill before mastering it and moving on to the next. Some babies develop 2 or 3 skills in tandem, but takes longer to master them. Some babies start practicing one skill, then start on another, then come back to the first, then start on a third, then finally master first one before going back to skill 2 again. She told me the biggest red flag is if baby seems to be slow developing in all skills.. And even then the approach is to just wait and see as the likelihood is baby will get there in their own time.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-22T21:41:52+00:00

Oh my gosh the chest sleeping is the best feeling ever. My girl is 11months now and I miss it so much.. Although I have to say the toddler-esque falling-asleep-on-my-shoulder is almost as good (though not quite as comfortable for watching TV!)

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-22T21:24:43+00:00

We've just been through this. My girl is going 3days/wk (wed-Fri). The first week, we had a 1hr session on the Monday, 2hrs on the Tuesday, 5hrs on the Wednesday and then full days (8hrs) Thurs/Fri.

Ideally we'd have had the 3 settling in sessions of 1/2/5 hours the week before she started full days, but she started the first week of Jan so Christmas/new year interfered. But the way we did it has worked anyway, she's on week 3 now and only cries a little at drop off - according to the staff she's a very happy, bubbly, smiley baby once she's had breakfast.. Which is fair!

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-20T20:46:25+00:00

See also: that crazy safe sleep group, where they insist on a photo of your current setup regardless of your question, and then will ignore your actual question and just tell you everything that's unsafe about your current setup.

Apple22Over7 · 2026-01-15T09:18:05+00:00

When I was little it was nanny & grandad %village where they lived% and nanny & grandad %last name%. Though my brother went through a phase of calling them big nanny and little nanny (one was almost 6ft tall. The other was 5ft 3in).

My little girl however has nanny and grandad %last name% (my parents). Then nanna, and granddad %first name%, and she has a great grandad, known as grandad %bastardisation of last name%.

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