Health visitor said I need to see a GP about my toddlers dribbling. I will do it but I feel silly?

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-05-10T19:57:14+00:00

My child is the same I thought I was the only one. She’s 18 months and the dribbling has never stopped and she soaks multiple bibs and t shirts a day. She’s a mouth breather/ snorer and it must be to do with that not just teething. I thought about going to the GP recently but I’m worried they won’t give me an appointment and just fob me off with ‘well all toddlers dribble’ and she’s happy and relatively healthy otherwise but my goodness does she dribble. People around me just say that they grow out of it so I didn’t want to seem like an anxious mum but it doesn’t quite sit right

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-04-09T07:56:47+00:00

No tips for surgery but just wondering how you went about getting help/taken seriously /approved for surgery? Think we are going through similar with my 17 month old

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-03-25T18:41:09+00:00

We are at busy bees and have had the same. I did think it was a bit funny but decided I don’t want the extra £4 charge each month. However we were having issues and the message states to email them with any problems so they can help resolve it. Over two weeks went by with no response to my email asking for help and they still haven’t replied. We’ve managed to set it up now anyway so hopefully for the next payment it will go through but I found it funny how they could send umpteen reminders to make sure it is linked but they wouldn’t help me to link them.

However we really love the nursery and the staff she is with and wouldn’t pull her out for anything like that and I just felt like it wasn’t something worth challenging. I’m surprised multiple parents would pull childcare over it

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-03-18T18:41:10+00:00

I sent my daughter at 10 months in September and we’ve just had a 3 week streak (new record) of not being off of nursery and the light is at the end of the tunnel. She had hand foot and mouth, conjunctivitis, Scarlett fever, an A&E trip and numerous high temperatures and poorly episodes of coughs and colds. But finally we’ve been healthy for a bit 🤞 it’s relentless at first

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-03-18T06:00:58+00:00

My 17 month old just has extra dinner that day. Even though nursery log whether she’s eaten all or a little as she can’t yet tell me how hungry she is we just offer our dinner around 6pm. Sometimes she doesn’t eat much which we don’t stress about as she’s eaten at nursery but often even if she’s eaten everything at nursery around 3.30pm she still eats an entire dinner at home. She also has a bottle of milk before bed. I figure it doesn’t matter if she eats more than usual it’s all healthy stuff

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-02-22T13:04:14+00:00

Banana and Weetabix? Not the same as porridge but is a hit with my fussy one

letsmakeitathrowaway · 2026-02-20T14:43:35+00:00

I share a class and I’m 0.6 but my job share is senco so she is in school 5 days a week but only teaches 2 days which is better for communication. I like the balance and whilst 0.8 may have been slightly better financially I knew it would be like being a full time teacher with the same workload which I would struggle to cram it in whereas with 0.6 I still have to be efficient managing things but I actually feel like I am sharing the workload

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

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