Just looking for a bit of perspective - my little one started nursery about a month ago and has already been ill 3 times, all of them week+ long illnesses where we had to take him out of nursery for a week and longer. It really doesn't help him settling there or our jobs...
How long in people's experience has this slog lasted? I was hoping as it's summer time it'd be a bit easier but sadly not...
I've just got back into work after maternity leave and have started sending my 1 year old to nursery. Everyone's telling me to prepare for him catching everything and he's already gotten a cold in the first week so they might be right.
I was looking at our work policies and HR laws and it looks like you're only allowed to take 1-2 days off once your child falls ill, and that is to arrange alternative care? What if you don't have alternative care (aka grandparents)?
What do working parents do if their kids are ill for 3-5 days, do you take holidays or call in sick yourselves (which I'm told you shouldn't do)?
For the last 6 weeks (9-11m), it feels like our little boy has been teething pretty much constantly. We got maybe a week's break and here we are again, crying and chewing fingers and everything around. Considering molars take like a month to come through from what I've heard, is the second year of baby life pretty much just relentless teething?
Hi all. Our nursery recommended Biogaia drops to try and help with the start of nursery bugs. I can see that their most popular product is more aimed at digestion, but they do have one called Pharax which claims to help immune system function. Has anyone tried it? It's quite pricey so I'd rather get some assurance it'd help before forking out that money for 10 days' worth of drops
Or is it just an absolute 💩show with every single tooth?
Has anyone experienced this? Baby (10m) has never been a great sleeper and we'd always bring him into our bed early morning as he'd cry and it was the easiest way to settle him. He'd be out like a light soon as his body hit the sheet.
We've had a chain of illnesses and teething and more rough nights than ok ones recently, so we've made the decision to bring him into our bed earlier, around 11pm-midnight. However, what worked before doesn't seem to work anymore - baby doesn't sleep as deeply as he used to, he spends a lot of time wriggling around, tossing and turning, grabbing our faces etc. He seems to be on the brink of waking up most of the night. I don't think it's a sleep pressure issue as sleep totals have actually reduced recently as he's been waking up earlier than previously, and only having 2 x 30 min naps most of the time. He just seems to need a lot more support with staying asleep, and I wonder if cosleeping may have caused it somehow?
He's formula fed so not like he's waking up to nurse.