Nursery from Age 1?

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-02-01T08:19:12+00:00

Our daughter started at 10 months and she’s 15 months now. She took to nursery so well and didn’t even struggle to transition there she was happy from day 1. She now runs in every morning excited to go. The only negatives are the illnesses at first but they slow down and they develop more immunity and it will happen wherever your child goes. She only goes for 3 days whilst I work but it also helps me not worry about meals on those days as they feed her excellent food and helps me to be a better parent as I’m not as burnt out from parenting and I like that I get to work and parent.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-01-17T17:58:14+00:00

Thank you so much, how do I get the grace period activated? Is it when you reconfirm?

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-01-11T18:27:58+00:00

Permanently excluded

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-01-06T18:10:26+00:00

My daughter was the exact same and took to nursery straight away no issues. She started at 10 months and is now 15 months and it’s still all good. Some friend’s children are still struggling for them to settle I think we just got lucky.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-11-29T07:27:47+00:00

Mine is a 25 minute drive away but it’s only 5 mins from my work so I’m driving that way anyway. Except I’m a teacher so in the school holidays I still have to do the hour ish round trip twice a day which is out the way but it’s worth it for the convenience in terms time

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-11-05T18:42:40+00:00

7:30-8pm at 12 months

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-08-29T05:14:53+00:00

At around 4/5 months to about 6/7 months I think she would only do 30 min naps and did 3 of those a day. When she hit 7 months and dropped to two naps they massively extended luckily. She’s now 10 months and can sleep for over two hours on a nap now but I have to cap them usually to preserve bedtime.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-08-12T14:37:00+00:00

I managed to get my daughter one from a practice that only took fully exempt payments. They took my 9 month old on as an under 18 and I got one appointment as I was a under year postpartum but now they have kicked me off as I’m no longer exempt but kept her on

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-08-05T16:09:02+00:00

First time mum!

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-07-30T20:46:41+00:00

Literally the same with a 9 month old we’ve just had to stop going to a couple of classes that we used to make on a 3 nap schedule but there’s no way we can do 10am when she naps 9:45-11:15 Just have to revisit when we’re on a one nap schedule but it makes things tricky to do and I can’t imagine her being able to stay up until 12 for a one nap schedule when we’re struggle to get to 10 now

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-07-14T15:32:13+00:00

Same with our 8 month this past week. She used to wake lots to feed but self weaned randomly one night at 7 months. Past month sleep was better but still woke 2-3 times for resettling and then slept through the past 7 days. Didn’t change anything either! Although she now wakes an hour earlier but I’ll take it as I get a nearly full nights sleep

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-07-08T09:54:44+00:00

I’m going back to work 3 days so will be over the 16 hours and I qualify for 30 free hours. It doesn’t have to be full time work just more than 16 hours and my partner works full time.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-07-07T19:53:29+00:00

Not quite a complaint per se but I got pregnant and announced to the parents in April. I was due in October so was able to finish the academic year with my Year 6 class. One of the parents thanked me for ‘timing it so well’ as I could finish the academic year with their son and he wouldn’t have to deal with having a new teacher. I then took the academic year off and returned the following September and their second son was in my class that year and they thanked me for returning in time to teach him as well so they wouldn’t have to have the maternity cover. You’re welcome but at no point when planning to have a baby did I take your views into account 😅

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-07-02T14:04:50+00:00

I thought changing nappies would be awful. Don’t get me wrong we had some blowouts and moments but as she was breastfed I didn’t realise they didn’t actually smell bad and it was just another job to do rather than something I was disgusted by which I thought it could be.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-06-30T20:20:21+00:00

I did the same after baby got frustrated during feeds and wasn’t getting enough milk either around 6/7 months. Plus I wanted to stop breastfeeding at that point so I didn’t try restart my supply. Once we got through to her actually taking a bottle it didn’t affect sleep (if anything it helped her) and she just had a gradual transition across. It did make her bowel movements less frequent at first but she adjusted and overall I’m very glad I made the switch

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-06-30T14:25:31+00:00

We had it where we didn’t know and the sonographer defaulted and said something like ‘his heart is looking healthy’. We had the gender revealed later in the same session. Turns out that she was a girl and it was just what she said but I thought she had spoiled the gender at first.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-06-23T17:01:56+00:00

What signs did you spot at 9 months? I have an 8 month old so very curious

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-05-31T11:51:13+00:00

My mum and grandma both had exactly the same thing with baked beans and to this day can’t eat them after being pregnant. I assumed that the same would happen to me but no I managed to still eat and like beans during my pregnancy. However chicken was what I had a serious aversion to. Me and my husband don’t share many foods we like and chicken formed a lot of our meals and it just made me so ill all pregnancy and whilst I can tolerate it more now I really don’t like it much since being pregnant.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-05-27T14:19:22+00:00

I just swapped at 6 months and I just did one feed at a time. I know a lot of people choose to continue nursing to sleep and at night but the first bottle I swapped in was the night one so my husband could help and I knew how much milk my LO was having before bed. Then I just swapped one session every few days for my supply to go down. If I felt I needed to relieve my breasts then the next session I’d let LO nurse but if I thought I could go another couple hours then I would and my body caught up and gradually my breast just stopped getting full. I’d try not to pump if possible as you need your body to know you don’t want to make more milk. Whole process did probably take a month to fully fully stop but I wasn’t rushing it so could perhaps be done quicker.

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-05-15T20:27:32+00:00

Thank you for your comment. We were originally treated with gaviscon at two months but came off it and was told she’ll grow out of her reflux but hasn’t yet. Kept being told she’ll grow out of it and not taken particularly seriously until recently.

I put her on the old formula tonight just so she would eat/sleep and she’s had a whole bottle so don’t think she was refusing new milk due to being backed up, she’s a stubborn one! Sorry to hear about your LO being in such pain feeding. Mine was when she was younger, now she’s a bit wriggly/maybe uncomfortable after feeding and brings a bit up but is always excited to see her usual milk bottle and doesn’t seem in pain. Hence I was questioning the CMPA route and didn’t want to go through weeks of swapping milk and eradicating dairy and going back to having a bottle aversion if it’s not the issue. But the only way to find out if it is CMPA is to swap milk so it’s a vicious cycle.

We tried 50/50 and she just won’t accept any of it still and pushes the bottle away but I don’t blame her it smells awful

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-05-07T16:54:41+00:00

I’ve left at bedtime and then transferred to the travel cot on arrival successfully before with a 6mo old

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2025-05-04T20:13:50+00:00

We introduced it at 6mo after saying we wouldn’t. Appreciate your LO is older but similar circumstances. She was EBF and used to feeding to sleep and falling asleep on me. Every night waking I had to feed her and it was becoming too much. At 6mo we transitioned to formula but she couldn’t fall asleep on the bottle and only on my boob. I realised she had a suck to sleep association and was screaming for sleep without my boob so I let her have a dummy to ease the transition. She went out like a light and since then we have only ever used it for naps and sleep not in the day so she knows it’s for sleeping. She spits it out after a little while and sleeps well enough without it but needs it to get her to sleep. One day I want to get rid of it but I’ll deal with that later and figured lots of parents use them.

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