September 2014 - 6 months already?!

[holls2000]

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Oh and Holls, as I said before my ds has dropped all milk feeds together during the day (apart from night feed and middle of the night feeds) so I was super worried; but his paediatrician was not.(after looking at his growth chart) he said he will be fine on solids, just give him yogurt, etc, and keep giving him his vitamin D.

nazly go back to the nursery and start again continue to settling in sessions where you don't leave him. Sit with him and play for an hr or 2 then go, hopefully the staff will sit with you and engage with him, encourage positive interactions between ds and the staff always be smiley and happy when doing these sessions. The nursery should accommodate this!

Thanks everyone for the constipation advice - you've all been so helpful, I love having this group to turn to for advice! FATE it makes sense about them getting used to the new pooing sensation and I really don't want to medicate unnecessarily, especially as she'll probably go onto beta blockers soon, so I'm just going to try and get her to drink more and offer things like prunes and figs on a semi-regular basis if I think she's getting bunged up.

Nazly poor you, this nursery issue must be so stressful, especially having started back at work. Sounds like the paediatrician has been really helpful though. Have you ever left your ds with any babysitters or close friends or anything so far or has nursery been the first place you've left him?

Nazly I really feel for you, it must be so hard.

We have had lots of straining here with poos, I'm persevering with the sippy cup to try and get water in him!

I think DS has finally 'got' morning naps. A few times now when we've just been at home I've put him down two hours after waking and he has slept an hour and a half. It's like having a different child, he is so much more content and easy to manage when he has had enough sleep. Just need to crack the afternoon naps now, and the night wakings...

I hope I haven't spoken too soon, I bet tomorrow he'll only sleep forty minutes!

Honey that's amazing! I've been trying the NCSS approach to make naps longer than 40 mins but we don't really seem to be making progress! At least if you've done it once you know you've taken a step forward

Right, this might be a really stupid question but when will our babies start school? I'm struggling to get my head around it! Also, has anybody applied yet?

Apples I'm a teacher so should know the answer to your question but my brain seems to have turned to mush! I think Jessica will start year 1 in September 2018 when she will have just turned 4 . She'll be a really young one as she was born in August. So your babies born after 31 August will start year 1 September 2019. There's foundation stage 1 & 2 for 2 years before of course.

Does anyone else have annoying neighbours? I live in a terraced house and lately one of my neighbours has taken to hoovering at 8pm. It's just a bit odd not to mention infuriating when im trying to get my baby to sleep!

They get their free nursery place (15 hours per week) the term after they turn 3. This will be January 2018.

They start full time school at the start of September in the academic year a child will turn 5. This will be September 2019.

As September babies our children will receive 5 terms of nursery education before school and will start school at nearly 5 years old.

The August babies on here will receive 3 terms of nursery education (starting September 2018) and will start school having only just turned 4.

Top - I regularly hoover at 8pm! In fact evenings are my favoured time for Bissell carpet cleaning because it gives the carpet overnight to dry properly.

It is much easier to get anything done when the children are in bed and there's another pair of hands (DH) available if needed. I do loads of stuff like big cleaning and DIY in the evenings.

I get that Fate, I do quite a few household chores in the evening but never hoovering as I don't like to disturb my neighbours while they're relaxing in the evening haha. Plus now it woukd wake up J. The neighbour hoovering has no children anyway so could surely do it another time....oh well!

apples Not put J's name down for school yet, think you can from the age of 2. The school that I want J to go to isn't built yet, but there is a meeting next week to see the plans, and it opens in 2016. It's attached to my daughter's secondary school - which has a good reputation. He will be guaranteed a place as my daughter will still attend the school when he starts (she will be 16 !).
My twins were lucky, as we lived in a different catchment area then, and they went to outstanding infant and junior schools. Due to moving, and long waiting lists, there is no hope of J getting into them and there is no way I am sending him to the closest schools. Shamefully, I am a bit of a school snob.

J's sleeping has gone down the pan (again), after having a few good nights . I am so tired today !

Mine will definitely start school in August 2019, the Scottish system birth cutoff is start of March. At least then the youngest will be 4.5 years.

Sleep is getting worse and worse here, not sure what's wrong with him but something is waking him up constantly. White noise is sort of working, trying that rather than feeding every half hour. He seems to want an early bedtime but then of course he's waking earlier and earlier, 6am this morning.

September 19 seems so far away, but I bet it will fly in!

We're going backwards with sleep here too, is there a 6 month sleep regression? DS has decided 3.30am is an appropriate time to start his day this week. He does go back to sleep but it's dozing rather than sleeping so I'm having to get up to him every 45 minutes or so until we finally get up about 6.30. His naps are a bit hit & miss too, Tuesday only one nap all day, yesterday four naps & I had to wake him up from the last one as it was gone 5pm. I might take him swimming this afternoon and hopefully he'll sleep better tonight.

I wish the English cut off date for school starting year was March! Makes more sense. Oh well.

I have to say that I think as soon as Jessica turned 6 months her sleep has got worse. I can count on one hand the number of times she's slept for longer than 3 to 4 hours in one stretch. Hopefully it'll improve soon.

Ha ha of course I spoke too soon and today he did forty minutes. But the timings are all off today as I took him in bed with me at seven and we dozed off together and slept until nine! I put him down for a nap at one, and he went straight off but we have a class to be at at two. So I might have to wake him, which I don't think Ive ever actually done before.

It's so odd thinking about school, DS was born the 7th sept so he will be almost five when he starts, and most likely the oldest or almost the oldest in the class. I guess I'll be setting the precedent for birthdays parties?! TWO friends only lol.

The Scottish system sounds much better than the English. I know someone with a little girl born 31st August so only a week older than my son and she will be starting school the year before. Her Mum was v annoyed at the date of her arrival!

I literally have no clue how school applications work though. Or even what our local primary is like. I haven't thought about any of this!

b has been registered for the school I teach at for sept 2017 when he will be rising 3 - we start at nursery. he wasn't the first child registered!!!

Bloody hell I haven't even thought about school yet. Let alone registered interest for anywhere. How does it work then with primary schools? I thought you had to live within a certain distance from each school to qualify to go there, and could only apply to schools in your catchment area. Or can you apply for other schools? Do you get priority for school places if you apply early then? I assumed you could only apply in the preceding year. Sorry confused first time mum here!

Weaning still proving quite challenging here. Although Jessica did see me eating a slice of chocolate cake yesterday and seemed interested so I let her such a little bit off the end, and (surprise surprise!) that she did like. Lol! If only she was as enthusiastic about mashed swede!

The catchment system is no more with school places, you can apply where you want to but I don't think you can apply any earlier than usually done. I assume the local authority sends a letter about applying for school, although I'm not totally sure!

Blimey I'm glad I asked about schools! It all sounds quite complicated. I've heard people talk about 'September babies' but hadn't really twigged as to what a difference there would be between them and late August babies that end up in the same year[sh

When we found out I was pregnant and our due date I thought yay he will be the oldest in the year and then he came 6 weeks early and will now be one of the youngest lol.

sorry - I work in a private school so we have to register as there are only 4 rising 3s places ib nursery!!

Thankfully it's still done by catchment here so DS will be going to the school that's just across the park from my house. You can apply out of catchment and they'll let you in if they have space. I'm hoping they send out letters or something. I was looking up school starting ages and I could hold DS back a year as he won't quite be 5 when he starts (you can hold back sep to feb babies) but really don't think I will unless he's really struggling at nursery. He'd be 6 when others on his class would be 4!

I am so confused now about schools! I thought catchment area is important? I guess you could make applications to any school but then doesn't their decision depend on where you live? Can somebody summarises in a "primary school for dummies" style what I should be doing when?

Holls what is rising 3?

I am not vey happy about ds being the youngest in the class; I will see how he develops, but if necessary, I will ask the school head at the time to postpone his starting date by a year.

Hon Thanks for light and music cot mobile idea, I bought a fisher price one which was around 30 quids and it has been an excellent purchase; ds now quite likes his cot, plays with mobile (which is activated from the side by the baby) and self settles now.

Cookie thanks, yes, I intend to do something like that, talked to the nursery today and they are going to see how they can accommodate us - to be honest I was a bit pissed off today because the nursery manager was asking me how I deal with him in home implying he is spoilt (!!!! At this age?!?! Spoilt???) she said well, what do you do at home, do you pick him up as soon as he cries??? He is tooooo attached to you!!!! Aaaagh! Tried my best to stay calm and collected after that!

Please

nazly - rising 3 is when they are 3 in the term they start in rather than being 3 when they start