I'm just venting and I know it will get better but....

I hate that my little has to go to nursery!!! A few days there has messed up her sleep routine and feed routine so badly I'm over an hour into settling her.

They also have a different way of trying to settle her (despite me telling them our routine) so she is now confused and nothing is working to settle her.

I'm over an hour into trying to get her to sleep and I'm so fed up

I know it will get better but I wish I didn't have to work so noone else had a hand in raising her and messing up all her routine

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Awww bless you! Sorry that you have to go through that. I know you said it but it will truly get better

thanks for the sympathy I really needed that vent haha

It’s better to get it out! My LG didn’t drink enough milk at nursery so night wakes started. And that got frustrating but overall and now with time, I think nursery is great for her and she’s really loving it

that's reassuring to hear 💗 I know it will be good for my little's development but it is hard. Glad your LG is loving it x

I get you!!!!

She is having 2 bottles a day

Whenever she is at nursery she will hardly have any of a bottle at all thought she eats all her food so when she gets home she wakes though the night

The correlation is that she doesn't tend to really wake for a bottle when she is at home with me or family during the day

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You should definitely speak to the nursery staff about the routine and how it’s affecting you at home and hopefully they will start with your routine. I know at my setting we try to follow childrens routine especially when they’re young and then as they get older start embedding more of our routine. Hope it gets easier for you xx

aww sorry to hear you're having similar. I hope it settles down for you soon too 💗

thank you, I will see how today goes and see if they follow it a bit better. Just such a pain - on Tues they didn't give her, her 12.30 bottle until 2.30 and only tried to settle her for a nap after that - not at 10 when her first nap was.

thank you fingers crossed this week starts to go a bit better

that’s definitely not on you should speak to the staff in the room and if it’s not being followed please escalate to management. At the end of the day you’re a paying customer

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Ok, this might get a bit long, and a bit bumpy, so get comfy and buckle up.

So about a week or 2 ago, there was a post on here regarding sleepovers. Not letting their child go to them as you can't trust who'll be at the house etc.

Now, given recent incidents in nurseries and schools, plus my own experience back in the 90s, I am more concerned about sending my child to nursery and later school than I am to a friend's house for a sleep over.

The other day a man was jailed for abusing children at the nursery he worked at. A woman has been arrested for sleeping with an underage boy and then getting pregnant by a different underage boy while on bail for the first offence.

Young girls and boys get sexually harassed and bullied when at school, not all of them. But more than you think. And not just by other kids, but by adults who we as parents are trusting to look after our kids.

A sleepover, is a more controlled environment, with only a handful of people coming into contact with your child. A school, a club etc there can be 100s of people coming into contact with your child.

I was targeted at 7 years old by the owner of a prominent private school. Thankfully, I wasn't SA'd. In year 5 of primary school, I started to develop early, I was harassed by the boys and teachers made remarks about how my uniform didn't fit right, always "adjusting it" around my chest and legs.

Years 7-9 of secondary school were hell. But it was all under the guise of "we're just messing around". A teacher twanging my exposed bra strap (none uniform day) is not "messing around".

Boys pinning me down trying to rip open my shirt to see my breasts.

I fear for my daughter. I hope she takes after my father's family, flat chested.

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We repeat ‘nice hands’ ‘be gentle’ ‘let’s share’ etc

But how do I make him understand what he’s doing isn’t very nice? At the end of the day I feel like I’ve just been saying his name all day and nothing else.

What can I do?