Juice and other drinks

My son has never had anything other than water or milk. He is now 2.5 and knows others drinks exist like juice, smoothies, milkshakes.

When did you start letting your little ones have other drinks?

I don’t want him to have juice all the time but I don’t want him to be deprived of it that he gets obsessed when he finally can make that decision.

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Government nursery funding

Hi I have been told if we are claiming UC we cannot claim the government funding for nursery care, is this correct? 🤔

I am working the UC just tops my wage up.

Thank you from a very confused first time mum ☺️

Government funding hours

Can I ask, does anyone know much regarding this?
I’ve been told I’m allowed the hours for nursery but a friend has said that even if one week (say we are on holiday) we are still charged/using some of those hours? Even tho she’s not going to be in nursery?!

They have said I can have the hours over 32 weeks, I thought it was 42 weeks?

Not interested in anything

I'm really struggling my 2 year old daughter is not interested in anything. She don't like been outdoor or indoors I'm struggling to keep her entertained.
She has no interest in toys either.
I've taken her so many places and she just wants to leave its like its boring to her as much as I try and make it fun.
Dancing is the only thing she will do for a short time.
I've spoke to health visitor and they didn't seem to be concerned. But I am as I don't know what to do anymore.

Safe space?

My divorce was finalized 5 months ago with a man I have been with for 11 years and share 3 children. I put on a tough face but I am heartbroken and not taking it well. Neither one of us wanted to separate, but neither one of us did the work to fix it. Now that our divorce is official, I still can’t shake the feeling that it was a mistake. He is my best friend and I love him dearly. Do I tell him? Or continue to cry myself to sleep every night? How would I even approach him with this information?

Unsure teething

My little boy had rosy red really warm cheeks, his chest is a little warm & head a little warm, I've done his temperature and it's completely normal it's 37.4 at the highest so not classed as a temperature as it's not over 38.
He's quite fussy and has had badly disturbed sleep the last 2 nights. He's 10.5 months old & has his top 4 top and bottom teeth so 8 in total. I'm unsure as to whether he is teething his molars already as I know it can happen around 10-11 months where he already has 8 teeth.
Does this sound like teething? He's still having his morning and night time bottle and his 3meals with snacks during the day.
I'm unsure as he never had any issues teething with the first 8 teeth he got, we didn't even know they had come through until we saw them!

Any advice is helpful!
Thank you! From a first time Mummy who's struggling a little! X

Am I sane or crazy, I'm sure it's both 😆

My husband and I have been together for 10+ years and we finally got our little baby after years of waiting. I changed my lifestyle a lot, scaling way back at work to only a few hours a day and staying home full-time to take care of our baby. He has moved up on his field with a recent promotion and works outside the home. Anyway, it drives me NUTS when he can't handle his first toddler meltdown experience of the evening, or if I ask him to take care of a poopy diaper.. his excuse is always that he doesn't want our kid "mad at him".
I understand wanting happy moments, we all do. And I do everything I can to time naps so he's got a happy kid greeting him at the door as often as possible. But the dinner hour or pre-bed meltdowns still happen 🤷🤷
I really think big emotions just turn my lumberjack into a field mouse 🙈