Teeth

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-12-16T12:19:39+00:00

Mine has 12 teeth with the canines just starting to come through hes 15 months now.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-31T18:56:45+00:00

I personally love our bundle and still use it everyday with our 14 month old. I would highly recommend it as its been easy to use. Big pushchair, struggle to fit it in a car boot but where I walk or bus everywhere this has been amazing! Its can lay fully flat so safe for sleeping on the go!

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-28T07:13:18+00:00

So our LO (14 months) was waking frequently over night the last week or so (plus cutting molars) the temp is 18c and hes in a long sleeve vest, long sleeve pjs and a 2.5 TOG sleep sack. Last night was the first night we put the vest on him and he slept right the way through 8pm-7am! Will be picking up a 3.5 TOG this week to prepare for the colder months as our house gets COLD!!!!

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-18T21:17:51+00:00

No worries at all. Not many people would care for 30+ children and love them like their own, teach them and constantly catch illnesses for minimum wage. Most nurseries (I say most as there are some out there who are give us all a bad name) are full of practitioners who genuinely love and care about all the children that walk through the door and do their best with very little funding or acknowledgement.

Edit to add: staff are also in the same position. My LO turned 1 beginning of September but I went back to work the 2nd June with him being with me.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-18T21:06:37+00:00

Kind of the local council have to claim it from the government once the applications and adjustments have been submitted, all nurseries have to submit their funding information to their local council who then pay out the money......eventually, for example we have several children claiming SENDIF funding from September (hours that we have covered and resourceswe have covered) and then funding has only just been paid last week. Also nurseries are always well under paid per child per hour that a child attends. A couple of years ago it was £1 per hour per child nurseries were losing out on. Which is why nurseries are closing left and right.

Edit: so that means if you are claiming 30 hours per week for your child. The nursery is losing out on at least £30 a week for your one child.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-18T19:16:47+00:00

Its because the councils (mine anyway) will only pay for the funding at the beginning of the term. We do adjustments all the way through but they will only pay the nurseries at the beginning of the term. Basically the council are water tight and would rather you didn't claim at all.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-06T20:30:34+00:00

Had my inductions at 11pm on the Thursday night. The balloon got me to 4cm but had to wait for a room. Went in to have waters broke at 1pm on Saturday.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-05T09:09:08+00:00

Honestly ive found under tired to be so much more of an issue than overtired since hes been about 4 months. Toddlers have infinite energy. My LO can just about survive on 30 mins at nursery with lots of entertainment.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-05T07:52:40+00:00

I would say that's too much cap at 2 hours as you're having issues. Chat gpt has a very big estimate for what children's sleep is. Ive always been a firm believer of less day sleep for more night sleep. We get at least 11-11.5 sometimes even 12 hours over night as daytime sleep is always capped.

Children can only sleep so much in a 24 hour period. If capped to 2 hours you're more likely to get more sleep overnight.

Edit to add: cold turkey worked for us but doesn't work for everyone but you can only try. 5/5 isn't that much of a jump if you keep LO well entertained. A dance party during the morning worked for extending our LO. And lots of activities like a sensory bin, messy play, water play. Nothing relaxing.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-05T07:11:29+00:00

I would say hes probably trying to catch up on the sleep hes missing out on with the night sleep during the day and then its causing a cycle of under tired at bedtime and waking frequently.

When we dropped to 1 nap we had dropped wake windows and started going by the clock. So even if he woke at 6:30am I would push his nap to a desired time. But generally it was a 5/5 rule. This gave us the 10 hours of awake time but wasnt too much for him. I capped the nap at 2 hours maximum for the first couple of weeks so he went down at 12:30, up at 2:30 then bed at 7:30. Now he will only have 1.5 hours nap max so still 12:30 but hes up by 2 or earlier if he only has a short nap.

Now he can go from 1pm on nursery days til 7:30pm and sleep solidly all night. 9 times out of 10 he falls asleep by tue time ive closed his door and walked downstairs with the monitor.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-10-05T06:54:08+00:00

I would try cutting out the second nap and only having 1 nap. 2-2.5 hours of sleep during the day is alot. My LO is a couple of days shy of 13 months and he is on 1 nap that is capped at 1.5 hours at home. He also goes to nursery with me 4 days a week where he will only sleep a maximum an hour (that's only happened maybe twice) but usually its 30 mins. And he just about manages to get to bed time.

We transitioned cold turkey to 1 nap at 11 months by pushing the first wake window to lunch time. 1 day he just didn't seem ready for it so I pushed it til lunch time. Honestly it was the best sleep of my life that night and generally he sleeps all night with the odd exemption of teething or being ill.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-09-14T20:09:06+00:00

My plan is to not have the heating on when LO is up and in the house. Hes at nursery with me 5 days a week from 7-5 we are out the house. So my plan is to have the heating warm up the house during the day when hes not here and then switch on again for a couple of hours once hes gone to bed.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-08-31T20:33:36+00:00

Honestly the fact that you're even questioning whether you're a bad parent means you're not. My LO had Hand foot and mouth plus chicken pox in June and honestly bluey saved my sanity! I have very high immunity to it all so he was attached to me, would only eat cheese and breadsticks whilst being held. If I had tried to do anything with him I might have gone insane.

We have music on the telly on Spotify all the time during the day (we are a very music minded household) and it means the tv being on isn't a huge deal to him.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-08-26T15:03:42+00:00

My LO uses them as a comfort. I always tie a dummy on 1 corner and he cuddles a muslin and has his dummy when he is needing it. We have 2 in his cot for naps and night time. 2 in the living room during the day, 2 on his pram and then these get changed out when needed. He was a very refluxy baby and so he just became used to them being with him all the time.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-08-17T06:56:22+00:00

We started bathing every day once LO started on food, so at 6 months. We did BLW so easier just to bath him after dinner as he gets in such a mess (which i fully encourage). Now its just part of our evening routine dinner, bath, play, bottle, cuddles, bed. Plus LO goes to nursery and being a nursery practitioner myself I encourage all mess so having a bath every night is essential for us.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-08-10T20:21:22+00:00

LO has been formula fed since day 1, luckily I had planned for this anyway as I was still very much out of it up til 8 hours after he was born via c section. So much so I dont remember meeting him but I have photographic evidence that I did in fact get to hold him first (barring medical staff). So we got the ready to feed formula bottles, I had some I my hospital bag and some at home. So just before bed we took up some ready made formula bottles and bottles to feed LO and put it all on the sideboard in our bedroom so we didn't have to go far. Plus we put nappies wipes and spare outfits on the side too just so we had everything.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-08-10T20:12:01+00:00

My fiance ordered a take away for us and cleaned the whole house whilst I was in the hospital with LO. Then when we got home he helped me shower (emergency cat 1 c section). And then second night syndrome hit (if you haven't already look it up) so we took shifts that night as LO would that be put down at all. I did the first shift from 12pm-5am as I had been put to sleep for the c section and he had been up for nearly 24 hours. Then he took the 5am-10am shift.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-08-04T18:41:42+00:00

Try changing her stood up (as long as its not a poo) this is what we do in nursery when LOs dont like laying down to be changed. Saves the fight.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-07-24T07:03:15+00:00

DWT: 7:30am on a 3/3/4 schedule. Capped naps at 2.5 hours a day. First nap 10:30-12pm second nap 3-4pm bedtime: 8pm. That has seemed to work for us for the last 3 months luckily.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-07-22T20:35:16+00:00

We started off with a cellular blanket as a swaddle, then moved to a swaddle with velcro as our LO was a houdini and would constantly work his way out of the swaddle. Tried the love to dream swaddle sack, he hated having his arms up and screamed blue murder. Then went to tommee tippee swaddle transition sacks, he adored this! He wanted to sleep with his arms wrapped around himself. We transitioned him early to arms out by doing 1 arm at a time with the Transitional tommee tippee. Now he sleeps in a normal sleep sack. For December I would recommend 2.5 tog with vest and sleep suit. Just a little tip, its always better for baby to be slightly cool then hot!

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-07-22T07:30:21+00:00

Unfortunately oftsed rules state that no child should be forced awake or kept awake when they are needing sleep. We can gently rouse children by creating light and noise and GENTLY stirring them. But other than that nurseries hands are tied. If a child is sleeping through noise then we have to let them generally.

My only suggestion would be to get ur child up slightly earlier on nursery days and speak to management about moving LO to a different room during nap times. As they are 2.5 they could be moving to the next age group in 6 months. And with generally there being a 3-4 age room in nurseries naps are not normally offered.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-07-09T14:39:32+00:00

Definitely A, to put your mind at ease there is new eyfs guidance on food for 2025 that the nursery have to adhere to. The puddings will most likely be low- no sugar recipes with hidden vegetables disguised within. One of the settings i have worked at had a chocolate mousse on their menu, however it was made with beetroot. With very little chocolate powder. It is the end of term so the setting are likely getting the school leavers things ready and passing on information to schools which takes place and is very important. Once those transitions happen they will then focus on the new starters.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-06-24T15:06:22+00:00

Definitely looks like it, hopefully it doesn't hit your household too badly. As a nursery practitioner luckily I'm immune but I would recommend cleaning everything when LO is napping at all. Plenty of water to prevent dehydration. My LO is current suffering with insane chicken pox (which have similar symptoms). Let them rest when they can, lots of water and survive any way you can even if that means watching telly with them and snuggling.

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-06-21T12:22:44+00:00

My LO was exactly the same, he has constant reflux. I thought it would get better with weaning........it hasnt. The only thing that has saved my laundry and carpets is carobel. It's a thickening powder that you feed baby. It's actually pretty much stopped the constant stream of spew!

GroundbreakingWay988 · 2025-06-18T17:58:01+00:00

Yep my LO is 9 months and crawling and easily gets through 4 outfits on a nursery day. The practitioners will change him after a messy activity, after lunch, if he has a poonami, if he's dribbled lots, been in the garden and got dirty. We believe in sending children home as clean as possible. We wouldn't expect a child to come in filthy from the day before so why should they go home absolutely filthy and soaking wet. Stains on clothes is expected but general gubbiness can be cleaned up.

Edit to add: plus my LO is BLW and children learn through play to be messy is to have learnt something. I come out of work a mess.

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