How to manage the mornings before nursery

[BeDaringOtter]

My daughter (10 months old) is due to start nursery in a few weeks, and as a FTM there are a few logistics I need to work out!

Due to working shift work, my partner will have to do all the getting ready/taking her to nursery etc. Our plan is that he will drop her off at 7.30 in order to get to work, but we can’t work out whether he should be giving her her first bottle of the day before this or whether to leave it until she’s at nursery?

She currently wakes between 7-7.30 and so has a bottle between 7.30-8, but obviously we will have to be waking her up early on her nursery days.

It seems quite early for her to have it, but also don’t know if it’s a bit much for the nursery staff to have to do it almost as soon as she gets there?!

Do they offer breakfast at the nursery? Mine had a cup of milk when she woke up and then we just dressed up and left. She would have breakfast at the nursery.

I'd ask nursery to do it. It might not be at 7.30 though.

If she's hungry at hand over she's going to be more unsettled I'd say feed before so she's content

Being stupid here probably but what's Ftm short for?

We had similar and I used to wake my daughter up and give her her bottle straight away as she’d be so grumpy without it, and it made getting her ready a lot easier. Once you’re back into the swing of it you’ll get yourself into a good routine

If you didn’t want to do that, could you make the bottle before you go and leave it with the start when you leave her? It saves them making it up and they only have to give it to her.

I used to either get up really early or leave to nursery, too close to leaving time always meant my daughter would vomit the bottle up in the car.

Totally ask the nursery to do it - it is their job and they’ll handle it no problem. They have good ratios of staff to children at that age and given how early she arrives she may be one-to-one for the first 10 minutes as other kids will trickle in later rather than all arriving on time.

I asked nursery to do it. But it turned out that none of the others were on bottles, he was on the only under 1 in the baby room, so he just wasn’t having it and wanted breakfast exactly the same as the others with cows milk in his sippy cup. Which we said fine to as IMO more important that he was happy there than drinking the formula.

Breakfast at nursery if possible and child is ok so far. Maybe a drink of milk before leaving home.

We sorted clothes and bags the night before.

Up. Clothes on/clean nappy. On the road.