Wondered if hand holding for Sept newbies would be nice?

[treedelivery]

Just that really. Like an antenatal thread but for parents of children starting primary in Sept.

We have our taster afternoon in a couple of weeks - it all feels so alien. Haven't felt this out of it since I bought my 1st pack of nappies and got the giggles at the checkout!

My dd1 really ready to go in September, we have already been to the school shop that do 2nd hand uniforms and got 2 m+s grey pinafores and 2 summer dresses. I have been having kittens trying to sort out the first 5 yes 5 weeks of alternate mornings and afternoons cos i am a teacher part time and simply can't take any time off due to having classes. I also have 2 days - Mon and Tues - when i teach til 3 and have to be at school at 3 to pick her up. After school club has a year waiting list. We have a visit to the school next week and will see if i can find some mums in the same boat.

Acinonyx - we have the chronic constipation too. We have lots to chat about!

Am too full of tonsilitis to stop - but ace to see our thread is blossoming! Am really pleased, we may [?] go quite I suppose as there is still a while to go, but bet this thread will be on fire the last week of Aug!!

Hello to any new people. off to try and swallow without yelping

WEBS2573 is the extra 10% off at m&s

I got my things today , the skirt age 4 just fell down so am going to have to exchange for adjustable waist one. The summer dress is lovely.
My ds says the pe pumps that have velcro straps on are easier to put on than the elastci ones. £1.50 in asda!

Yes my dd very definately ready !

treedelivery - it is quite a saga. Dd has been on movicol since Jan, then added lactulose, and now I've added caricol. Her colon is so stretched I just can't get her to clear the poo out without building up these humongous monster scary poos. We just have an endless stream of little escaping poos in the meantime. I am at my wits end I tell ya - and just had yet another gp be vague and basically just tell me to keep doing as we are doing.

Tonsilitis hurts! Get well soon.

Oh it's the same tale. Exactly! We saw a consultant who said it will take the bowel as long to retrain and shrink down, as it took to stretch up. So we were looking at 3 years.

Movicol really helped us. At least when she went, every 3 to 5 days, she didn't need to be talked through pushing and take an hour. But the poo was huge and sometimes she looked close to fainting.

But then we had a miracle. And I'm hard to impress. I took dd2 to a chiropractors for colic/demon possesion. And she had a look at dd1 just because she was there.
DD1 had had movicol once daily to twice daily for about 6 months, poo every 3 days, and I'd trialed her without it 2 weeks previously = disaster. Needed huge amounts to get her goimg again.
Then Chiro released tension in her rib area where dd complained of pain when prodded, released her neck with a click.
Not a single sachet ever again, and a poo every day. Occasionally 2 days. She had one follow up treatment to be sure, thats it. That was 4 months ago. Poo's are now more 4yo size, but we can have 2 a day so she still has the large colon thing that needs to shrink down.

it's changed her life. She has more energy, less stress, less pale face, more appetite, she runs up the stairs now. I know I sound raving but I get quite emotional tbh!

I am totally frustrated with drs. We are not getting a big poo every 3 days - it takes longer and I just can't get enough laxative into her to increase it. I'm especially stressed as we have a history of severe inflammatory bowel disease in the family so the last thing I wast to do is stress her bowel.

We have used a chiropractor before and that does sound impresive. I will look into it.

It is just so stressful!

I need 'you who have done this before' to tell me how in the hell to do the mornings.

We are never ever going to be on time, with the right books, right bag, right note, right coat...Oh God

Who's doing pack lunch/school meal?

And what about the price of a dinner??? I thought the weekly fee was the monthly!

We spend about £25 a week on food [dh got made redundant and I'm on mat leave] so am surprised at cost but impressed at menu.

I know what you mean about cost of meals. Ds currently on school dinners as i was struggling to make enough different packed lunches but can't really afford two lot's of dinners will be £80 month!

Oh I hear you!!

Try cutting back on gluten and dairy. There is calcium in loads of stuff so we don't need to rely on it like we do.

I was thinking about it in bed last night. I'm going to have to explain to all the teachers that if she says it's coming - it's coming! She gets very little warning.

And there can be no making her wait - we cannot go back to withholding ever again

are school dinners £40.00 a month per child then? I have yet to find out from our school! Does anyone have any idea as to how much breakfast and after school clubs costs roughly?

our meals

I dunno what the clubs etc cost. But I looked around our private school. When I took into account the included breakfast, drop off with activites from 7 am, included lunch on a grand scale, pick up anytime up to 6pm, including a snack, with an activity such as swimming or hockey etc [some extras cost, like riding] - private seemed very good value for money! Not to mention 7-15 in a class.

I've already talked to her teacher a bit but I will really have to make this clear when she starts. Dd really needs to go immediately and sometimes hardly knows it's coming. I know we need to cut the dairy more - I have tried but she is really loves all things dairy.

I juat had a google and found a chiropractor not too far away who specialises in children. I think I might call them. At this point, I'm pretty open to trying anything.

I already have to make packed lunch and dinner to send to her CM so I am in the flow of packing lunches and cooking dinner in the morning . I can't imagine dd coping with cooked lunches at school although menus look good and I hope she will try it.

Gosh our dd's have a really similar problem.

It will get better as their nerves get used to sending messages again

Our consultant was reassuring - but warned we were in for the long haul. Till magic chiro arrived! Now we only have the urgency problem left.

Have just read the summer menu again - wonder if mum's can go for lunch!? Sounds Much nicer than the food at home.

DS loves his school dinners think they are £1.85 per meal.
But paying for two v thinking of a good lunch every day
I might do 2 days one 3 days another but don't want to confuse dd

Here's a great product for when you get fed up of stitching all those lovely woven name tapes

Chippy how do they actually work - do the tags themselves annoy the wearer (ds starts complaining about anything that is irritating in his clothes!) ?

hello - may I join too? My son will be starting in September.
I would like to start buying uniform but have no idea what to get. Have said on another thread that I shall have to go down to the playground and have a look at some children....
He's already at the school nursery, so he should be fine. Except for the dressing thing, the bottom wiping, and the holding a pencil (he won't do colouring, painting, anything like that). Nursery have already told me he's "the only child who can't put his own shoes on".
Believe me we've tried - any requests to put on / take off items of clothing meet with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Unless we're at a paddling pool, when he can miraculously strip naked in a few seconds.
I think we'll go with school dinners - I have very little time in the morning to make a packed lunch.

PS like the name, DwayneDibbley.

Golgi - if it's any consolation ds was the same with drawing and holding a pencil until about a couple of weeks ago. I just totally dropped mentioning it (not that I'm assuming you are trying to get him to do it by asking him) and eventually he's decided he does want to and seems to have suddenly started enjoying it. I did make a fuss of me doing some drawings but literally didn't ask him if he wanted a go as for ages he refused or at best just did a scribble.

Ditto with shoes until a couple of months ago. I invented a special shoe song which I only sung if he put them on himself and this worked well. Now he does it and doesn't ask for the song anymore (did for about two weeks - very embarrassing in public as was a v silly song).

No idea how I'm going to get him to wipe his bum though as he doesn't even seem to be able to reach even if he wanted to do it.

And how am I going to get him to learn how to do buttons on shirts? Are there any tricks to this that I'm missing?

Hadn't even thought of buttons. I was going to buy him shirts without! And send him in wellies....
I have managed to persuade him to go to the loo on his own, but he then comes shuffling out with his pants and trousers round his ankles - not sure how well that will go down at school.
Nursery do the child-led thing so he's been able to do what he likes (which is a good thing, really) - all the other children take home bundles of paintings and drawings - my boy not so much. He did bring home a paper-plate spider the other day, but he hadn't actually made it (it had someone else's name on the back!)