So....my DD did not get a place at any of the primary schools we chose. I moved to a new town with my dd and new partner last September just before I gave birth to DS . Dd settled with a new childminder and has made friends there ...she is a lovely, bubbly, happy child. The childminders have been very supportive and flexible with DD going for her 15 free hours a week. They were going to take DD and the baby with the other children to school and pick her up. I would leave the hospital to collect them when last patient seen.
I have to return to work in eight weeks to a busy job running a specialist team at a local hospital. I start at 8am and finnish at six with a forty minute commute and need to allow twenty minutes to park. DP is between contracts but they often involve working away.
So...my problem is I have been offered a place for DD at a local school which has a breakfast club which opens at 8 am and an after school club till six. My current childminder drops off at the school we did not get into. I need to be starting my commute at 7.20 at latest and this in part as there will be no parking anywhere if I set off later. I have looked into other childminders but they cannot take the baby. This still leaves me with the headache of how to get DD to and from school.
I told DD yesterday that we could take a walk over to look at her new school and put baby in pram. As the crow flies it should be ten minute walk but the only access is hundreds of steps or a drive round the estate. Nobody locally has said anything positive about the school and many locally drive their kids to the next village. The estate and school do not have a good vibe or reputation.
I feel numb with the complexity of returning to work, childcare complexity, the feeling that I have let DD down again as we didn't,t get in to better school with friends. The baby doesn't,t sleep so maybe I am low due to that......any advice much appreciated!!
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mummymcphee · 19/04/2016 06:24
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