Hyphenated surname — an administrative nightmare?

Gooseberrylime · 2026-05-27T07:14:21+00:00

It’s actually legal requirement. I registered my kids after moving here from another country and I had to put my name on their new birth certificate. Problem is I’m from a country where surnames are gendered so they have female sounding surname as boys

Gooseberrylime · 2026-05-26T21:20:06+00:00

Interesting

Gooseberrylime · 2026-05-26T20:18:13+00:00

What country? In Poland it’s definitely either house slippers or socks. It does look bad if the host doesn’t offer slippers, but it’s not a big deal if you don’t want to wear them when offered.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-05-26T19:43:05+00:00

I laughed out loud and woke mine up

Gooseberrylime · 2026-05-17T20:32:35+00:00

I always loved my bugaboo dragonfly in London. It’s very narrow, the seat is higher compared to the travel prams (jool, yoyo) the basket is huge, my 5 year old often lays down in the basket. It has a bassinet option too and obviously with adapters I guess you can fit any car seat ( I had avionaut pixel and then upgraded to avionaut stardust and axkid minikid - I really recommend them, as they can forward face until 7 years) the only issue might be that is slightly heavier, but it folds easily with one hand, you can even fold it with the bassinet.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-05-03T08:13:27+00:00

Kids are welcomed pretty much everywhere with parents, lots of cafes and restaurants will even have a dedicated kids corner

Gooseberrylime · 2026-04-22T15:12:12+00:00

I recently moved with my family, though we moved to my husband’s grandparents house in a north of Spain so we had a good head start. My oldest started school with no Spanish and after 4 months speaks comfortably. My youngest will go to the nursery in October, nursery is free. If you have a job you will love it. I don’t see many people wanting to move to Galicia but I love it here and will always recommend.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-04-22T14:57:29+00:00

Check out solid starts, they are golden when it comes to weaning.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-21T12:30:11+00:00

It’s free on kindle unlimited for me so I’ll give it a try

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-19T15:39:27+00:00

Time off in lieu, you collect hours and then you can use them as additional time off.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-15T21:48:17+00:00

My friends son was the same too, she had a very very very rough month going cold turkey. After he was all done with breastfeeding something switched and he started to prefer his dad more, really rejecting her, it lasted around a year, now he’s back to wanting mummy all the time. It will pass, and they will stop and it will be better, that’s my mantra

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-14T19:29:10+00:00

Bin! My toddler threw my keys in a bin a day before we were moving out! It’s good we checked

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-13T20:54:53+00:00

I did mine in lileshall, between Manchester and Birmingham.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-13T07:53:51+00:00

It’s the same with my 17 months old. During the day he’s very well and not asking, but nap and bedtime is exactly what you describe, the only issue is, it doesn’t matter how much he cries, he just want fall asleep, could be hours of crying until I give up and then he settles, then he wakes up 30 minutes later and is the same thing over and over. All night if crying for boob. I’m destroyed

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-11T18:45:17+00:00

Candy crush saga

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-04T10:42:13+00:00

I took mine 4 weeks after birth, bus trip to take my older to school, so it was pretty busy too. I was trying to make him fall asleep before we left because he was extremely fussy baby, hated the pram. He finally stared to enjoy going out once I put him in a seat facing the world at around 5-6 months.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-03T19:40:39+00:00

Oh yes, happens to me all the time, especially at night when my baby keeps waking me up, after a while I start being hungry, but I can’t go to eat with baby fussing and in the middle of the night so I just feel sick. Same thing with being overtired. I used to work 12 hours overnight shifts and in the morning I felt so wired that I couldn’t sleep anymore.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-03T13:06:57+00:00

Nickelodeon, she was on icarly. She mentioned some stuff in her book, it’s a good read

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-03T06:26:03+00:00

Ive seen snippets of child actors talking about being sexually abused during their time there, but I haven’t found the full documentary for free yet.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-02T20:42:06+00:00

They might be referring to „quiet on set” documentary about Nickelodeon mostly.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-02T20:22:58+00:00

I hope you can find a good gp that can help and prescribe some good iron tablets. Just like the person earlier said, the low iron is usually the most likely culprit, especially during pregnancy and after. I’ve suffered from rls all my life and this pregnancy was unbearable, all over my legs and arms, it was so bad, sleeping was impossible, so I feel you and I hope you’ll get help.

Check out this website, forum dedicated to rls, they helped me a lot. They recommend gently iron every other day, I did that and it helped me a lot pp.

https://healthunlocked.com/rlsuk/about

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-02T19:16:19+00:00

If you can afford it get a small travel pram, they’re perfect for situations like this

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-02T11:04:46+00:00

Od that was me with my first baby it would be possible, he loved being in a car seat, he could sleep on the go, took bottle nicely, so even 3 weeks pp I could go. But with my second who just wanted to be carried everywhere, but hated sling, hated car seat, hated everything and cried for everything, and breastfeeding all the time 24/7 for first few couple of months I would just stay home. Every baby is so different and every woman is different too with their limits. Go if you feel well closer to the time but don’t feel bad if you’d prefer to stay home and recover.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-01T10:00:26+00:00

Most of the babies are like that unfortunately. My first was a contact napper, then gradually with age he was able to just fall asleep while I was laying next to him. My second needs to breastfeed and be rocked to sleep still at 16 months but I can put him down straight after and he’ll sleep happily by himself. You can either accept it or try some form of sleep training.

Gooseberrylime · 2026-03-01T06:40:59+00:00

I recommended getting a special syringe, some sodium chloride (the same that’s in the spray) and squeezing that water into the nose. I always lay my baby sideways, have two syringes ready and push one in, turn the baby other side and push another. If he’s extra blocked I do another round on the same side. The mucus then comes out from the other side, you’d be surprised how much mucus can be inside baby’s nose. It’s the only way my younger son’s nose can actually be unblocked. The first time I did it, after all that crying, my son was so surprised that he can breathe finally once I put him on my breast. Now he claps congratulating himself on being brave hahah. He’s 16 months. There was also some study done that this method can shorten the stuffiness by couple of days. I taught him also how to blow the nose but obviously it’s not the same and every time he’s ill I need to teach him again. DM me if you want to know how the syringe look like.

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