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We've just been to see the paediatrician to check our daughter's progress. Everything is going to plan, she is well ahead of the game in some respects. For example, she's babbling well, she is crawling (yes, we have proper crawling forwards, started on Friday, as yet only used if she wants to go get something), she is alert ... Sometimes I feel that we have been so incredibly lucky that there MUST be some major disaster waiting to happen!

The paediatrician also remarked that our baby was soundly attached to me. In fact, DD hardly tolerates being left with Grandma and Granddad anymore :( On one hand, this is good, normal development, on the other hand, I'm fearing for nursery. I just hope that she gets a nice key worker and that our strategy will work (three extra settling in sessions, only half days during the whole of April). Oh my baby, my poor little baby. We also bought her some 9-12 month nursery clothes today. They grow up so quickly!

Now we only need to get her to go to sleep earlier (slowly inching bedtime forwards) and develop a nice bedtime routine (bath, massage, book, boob, night). We're trying Elizabeth Pantley's "No Cry Sleep Solution".

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the nursery stuff. I still remember when we started taking Maya (age 7 months then) to her day care provider, who at that time was a woman who cares for children in her hom). It seemed to work best to have Dad drop Maya off and me pick her up in the afternoon, because she tended to be distraught when I dropped her off. I hope your experience is beter than ours!

[aome.livejournal.com]

DD hardly tolerates being left with Grandma and Granddad anymore :( On one hand, this is good, normal development, on the other hand, I'm fearing for nursery.

Don't worry. Really. Even if your daughter is upset for awhile, she won't be harmed by it, and everyone will survive. Does she have any kind of lovey-toy she's attached to? If so, send that in with her - that will help ease things a bit. MiniPlu adjusted to part-time daycare immediately, but it took Two a month to really settle in. We knew it would be a rough adjustment, so we all took it in stride, and, by the end of the month, she was fine. Now they call her "smilie". :)

[cynthia-black.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I think you'll find the dropping off and leaving at nursery much harder than DD will - kids have this wonderful way of making you feel guilty as heck the moment you do anything out of the ordinary, because they like to have you wrapped around their little finger.

She *will* cry when you leave her at nursery, but rest assured, she will settle in quickly, so that after just a few days, the crying will stop the moment you're out of earshot. And the staff are quite used to dealing with that in young children.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're all doing well. Big life changes (like taking kid to nursery, school/whatever) are always hard. Just treat it as an alternative to the old-fashioned extended family.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

that soudns fantastic. i'd like to huggleal lof yo ubut you odn't want m ycold so...(throws kisshands)