February 2023 Babies 🇬🇧

Anyone else’s little one got chickenpox already? We’re on day 3 and it’s been hell 😔 he picked it up from nursery and it just caught me off guard as I always assumed they get it when they’re a little older.

He refuses to take antihistamines but it’s breaking my heart seeing him so itchy and in such discomfort 😢

I also have a 7 month old and I’m so scared he is going to get it. I’m just a bag of nerves at the moment and my anxiety is through the roof.

Also, annoyingly the chickenpox vaccine will be included in his pre school vaccines in June! Does anyone know what I do about that now? Surely he doesn’t need the vaccine anymore but I know it’s combined.

Thanks x

Just wondering if anyone has any tips. My little boy often gets very upset on car journeys. It makes it very difficult when we're travelling to my parents which can be a 2 hour journey. We always break it up but stopping half way, but the last half of the journey is always awful with screaming, crying and wanting to get out of his car seat. I try offering snacks, putting on songs, audiobooks he usually likes, giving toys, but nothing works. This is sometimes the case even on short journeys (20 mins) home from town or soft play. I'm really struggling with this. He's rear facing and has a mirror so we can see each other. I'm not sure what else I can do to make things easier! I'm even considering turning him front facing, but I'm not sure it'll even help.

Our 3 year old still sleeps in a cot 😅 our other son is 4 months old and so he’ll be moving into his big brother’s room with the cot when he’s around 6 months. So my eldest will be moving to a spare room upstairs 🥺🥺 the rest of us will be downstairs. Any tips for the transition? I feel awful that he’s upstairs and we’re downstairs 😟it will be his first time sleeping in a bed every night

Does your LO use alternate feet up each step? Or put both on each step?

What bedtime books are your little ones loving at the moment? We have lots of Julia donaldson but find they are too long for bedtime, looking for some shorter ones :)