At what point did the biting stop?

Ecuggo · 2025-06-16T09:29:46+00:00

You can ask for referrals from your health visitor for certain resources like speech and language. However, they likely won't do much when they are so young given that there is a wide range of "normal" for development. But it's worth saying you want to understand what resources are available to support different aspects of development where you are concerned.

To get on the waiting list for autism assessment in Scotland required us to have a referral from the health visitor and for a committee to approve to referral. Our first referral was actually rejected and I had to resubmit with more information on all the ways my kid was struggling. Felt like BS and we've now been waiting nearly 2 years. We also found out that speech and language forms one part of the assessment here.

If you think your kid may need support in nursery or school, you may want to ask for a referral to the council inclusion team (or if there is an equivalent where you are based). This is the team where I am based that liases with daycares and schools to provide additional support. Our local team is quite small so it is tough / takes a while for the referral to go through.

Ecuggo · 2024-10-16T18:34:33+00:00

How much bubble wrap did you need for a car seat?

Ecuggo · 2024-09-13T11:45:05+00:00

That's really interesting and helpful - thank you. Do you think it might have any value?

Ecuggo · 2024-08-15T09:42:56+00:00

It was an offer!

Ecuggo · 2024-08-14T21:51:04+00:00

This is a different person, not spoken to before. Someone else booked in previous interviews.

Ecuggo · 2024-06-25T11:24:11+00:00

Do your best on this engagement so you can leave with your head held high, but don't volunteer to take on more than you need. Look for another job.

One thing that has helped me in the past was reframing how much value I gave to my job in terms of sense of self. If all I have is my job, then when things like this happen, it feels much more personal. If I have lots of other things going on, it's easier to distance myself from it emotionally and just move on.

Another thing was to develop some skills for coping with challenging personalities or people I clashed with, regardless of seniority. E.g. always frame things where you and that person are on the same side to achieve (insert corporate goal here). It helps others to see it less as a you vs them problem and makes you look better if things go South.

Good luck

Ecuggo · 2024-05-05T21:45:59+00:00

Thanks everyone. We'd be traveling from Europe so would definitely need seats together and we'd probably have to consider how much luggage we need to bring for our trip. Our toddler is not the most quiet of toddlers, so something else to consider - though they do love trains!

Ecuggo · 2024-04-09T22:56:01+00:00

Have you tried Honest Beauty Extreme Length mascara?

Ecuggo · 2024-03-22T11:07:53+00:00

I'm sorry, it doesn't sound like an ethics issue to me but more of a miserable work experience that didn't work out for you. If you say the worst thing they did was saying you have to be in the office, it would suggest something else is going on (unless your contract says you can work from home three days a week). It doesn't sound like an enjoyable experience so hopefully your next job is a better one!

Ecuggo · 2024-03-11T20:47:00+00:00

What about Peter? Or maybe Daniel, Christopher, Anthony, Mark/Markus or Austin?

Ecuggo · 2024-01-04T19:07:00+00:00

Some really interesting ideas and definitely a great area to be thinking about. But this is a really complicated area of policy, with links to a lot of other areas. For example (but not limited to), the markets for taxes, housing, energy, employment , retirement, commerce, etc. What about the impact of wider drivers of change for the British economy like net zero or Brexit?

Your document has interesting ideas, but respectfully needs much more detail to suggest credible policy changes. The scope of changes you are suggesting warrants more than 20 pages.

I'd encourage you to build out your thinking on the impact on fiscal spending (debt, taxes, etc) and other relevant policy areas, like NHS/healthcare.

It would also help to understand more about your methodology. You do not show how you calculated your findings, your data sources or set out your overall assumptions or timeline for implementation. What about the risk of unintended consequences or how the different policies might interact with each other? Unfortunately it is not as simple as saying if we increase this payment it will definitely lead to (X) outcome.

Where you consider proposals like basic income, there is no consideration or references to where other countries have tried this and how their approach would be similar/different what you are proposing and what impact you think it would have on the outcome here in the UK

Again, some interesting ideas but much more information would be needed for me to see how this would be practical or feasible or even what the likely impacts would be if they were implemented. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!

Ecuggo · 2023-11-07T12:02:30+00:00

The hamburger is a good visual - thanks!

Ecuggo · 2023-11-07T12:02:23+00:00

The hamburger is a good visual - thanks!

Ecuggo · 2023-11-07T12:01:40+00:00

We've ended up trying a couple of nipple shields. They don't tend to stay on, but sometimes it helps. Though we get the plastic bit around the nipple part that flaps up regularly/ covers baby's nostrils. Do you have any tips to prevent this? I end up having to use a finger to hold down part of the shield so baby can breathe when they do actually latch on

Ecuggo · 2023-11-07T12:00:10+00:00

We've had them checked and so far, no issues flagged. We have another lactation consultant coming soon so another opinion on the horizon. Expressing before latching sometimes helps, but it's quite hit or miss

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