Nursery

Hi ladies! I’m 26 weeks pregnant and was just wondering when it is recommended to apply for nursery if I want him to start at 9 months old? I know how busy they can get!

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I would approach nurseries directly as some may has a specific admissions process regarding signing up, deposits, fees etc.

Regarding funding you can go to childcare choices gov.uk which would guide you on how to go about that.

Depends where you’re based, we got mine in at 11 months to start at 13 with no wait list - the intakes around childcare funding are the bottle necks and naturally ofsted reports, local population etc etc all factor in! X

There’s no harm in starting early, depending your area etc, some nurseries can have a one year waiting list. Xx

I was 12 weeks pregnant with my 2nd when I got him down for a place at his brothers nursery and they said if I’d have left it any later I’d be struggling! Deffo start looking now x

Definitely start early. I put my my son on waiting lists at 6 months pregnant and he didn't get in until almost 2 years of age. I put my daughter on at 14 weeks and they said maybe September. I go back in July.

I got our baby a place a 20 weeks at our chosen nursery from when he or she is 11 months old as I couldn't get a place from the term before.

Asap!

Our youngest was born on a Saturday and we registered him on the Monday after he was born, but that was before the extra funding came in. Tbh, even then it was tight so I’d def recommend contacting nurseries now to see what their waiting lists are

It's a 9-12 month waiting list for all the nurseries where I am. We recently had to change my son's nursery due to my work location changing, and I contacted 14 of them and was told the same thing everywhere. The only way we managed to get him in to one is because it's brand new and has only just opened

We got ours sorted at 24 weeks, the waiting list was 6 months but it just meant it was done

We got ours at 14 weeks pregnant to start at 6 months old, weren’t able to get a space on a Tuesday as they were full. The other nursery we liked couldn’t take him until he turned 14 months due to siblings preference and the baby room being full. Where we are the best nurseries are booked up!

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