Hope you're all having a good day ladies. Been a few days since I've posted here
DS's nursery settling in went really well. We stayed with him the first hour, then the next day he went in for an hour on his own, and then the third day he was on his own for 2.5 hours. The staff said it was a really positive settling in, which was great to hear. He's on his first week of mornings at the nursery now (doing three mornings a week - more on this later!) and he's doing so well. The staff said the only times he's cried is when they changed his nappy the first few times (he seems okay with it now) and when he's tired. He's eating his solids well (they're spoon feeding mostly I think, we're doing a mix of spooning and finger feeding at home) but not taking much milk from his bottle yet. He's also struggling to nap properly, poor thing, but hoping this improves in time. The first day he managed half an hour, yesterday he only had 20 minutes (self-settled - but had been awake since 5am so by the time he got home and napped at 1.40pm he'd only had 20 minutes of sleep! :( Although he did have a 2.5-hour nap at home - unheard of - and then our best night's sleep for a while). Hoping it's a bit better today. He even gave us a lie in (6.30am!).
So proud of him. He's had a horrible cold for the last week as well, ever since his settling in, which resulted in some horrific nights. One night, when we stayed over my mums with him, we ended up holding him the whole night as he was so bunged up. He's over the worst now though, just sounding all hoarse, bless him. Expecting more of the same soon though, what with nursery and all.
So, the reason why he's only in 3 mornings a week instead of full time is because DH and I had a big conversation about things, and we both decided we couldn't bear the idea of DS being in nursery 8-6 five days a week. We realised that, essentially, his key worker would see more of him than we do, which would feel awful for us. As some of you know, we're currently living at my dad's while we save for a house deposit. Well, that was the plan. We decided that there's always time to save money, but that DS's baby/infant years are only here once, then they're gone. And so, because of my awesome flexible working arrangement that lets me work from home 90 per cent of the time, DH has given his notice in to be a stay-at-home dad for the next year or so. I'm so happy that DS will have us around more. I hope it's a decision that won't come around and bite us on the arse. I do want to be a home owner one day. But I won't ever regret us making the decision to put that on hold while we nuture our little one.
Yikes, long post, sorry. Hope you had a fab holiday Button, and that all of you lovely ladies are keeping well.