Any other expectant Dads?

[vonuber]

Yes, ours went back to reception and nursery asap and their behaviour change was remarkable. I've heard that from the parents of a single child too - they were telling me what you described- the behaviour issues- and we told them to send her back to nursery, and they said her behaviour change was immediate, for the better.

God knows what it must have been like with a load of bored teenagers, but at least they could communicate with each other digitally.

[Gallons Per Mile]

richatnort said:

Glad all is well with you mate! It's so nice their personalities coming out! I love to tickle her because the giggle she gives is just bloody adorable! I also work in the kitchen and she walks in on her walker, sees me, lights up her face and waves! It's my favourite bit! She also waves goodbye too when she leaves the kitchen and you can hear her giggle as she's walking out!

Covid is a pain! We did NCT and have a really close couple we all get on great Inc babies and we've agreed to bubble together as the benefits over family who are Miles away out strips it for us. So those two play a lot in the week and she's also in nursery two days a week which has helped her development too so if yours is going to nursery don't worry too much she'll develop loads then!

P.s. Hope every one and their kids surviving this heat!

Cheers! Glad your little one is doing well, it's great to see them developing in to small people isn't it We've not got a walker for her (yet), but she does a good job of standing up by herself using the sofa or the foot stool in the living room and then letting us know she's annoyed that she can't go anywhere yet! She's not going to nursery as mum is at home full time. They were doing group activities at the local library up until lockdown and I don't believe anything like that has restarted. Her behaviour is good though, so we're not too worried, but it would be great to get her socialising again.

We've just about survived this heat wave, it's been tough going for a few nights but Mrs GPM had been a star as ever and tried everything she could to keep her sleeping. It doesn't help that Mini GPM's room seems to be hotter than any other in the house for no particular reason. We've had a fan on in her room and even cooled her down with a wet flannel and she's had some sleep in the cot, but on a couple of occasions Mrs GPM resorted to co sleeping in the spare room where it was a little bit cooler. We all can't wait for the cooler temperatures of next week, but I'm hoping it doesn't rain too much as I've got an engine to put in a car

[Nemophilist]

Gallons Per Mile said:

Congratulations, and I'm with you on that one! Mines nearly 11 months already and it only seems like yesterday we were leaving the hospital.
Mine is extremely happy all the time too, well apart from bed time at the moment, but that's just to do with another 'leap' as per the Wonder Weeks book
She's got her own little personality now and she's brilliant. Love her to bits
I really hope this Covid stuff goes away soon as I worry about her not socialising with other kids. She never sees other babies and it feels like she's missing out on that aspect of life at the moment.

Mine loves looking at herself in the mirror

She probably has no idea it’s not another baby - socialising Covid style done

[fourstardan]

Hi new father in October....has anyone found any ways to do the antenatal?

NHS aren't doing it so wondering how the hell I get my missus mentally prepared .

Can't see why they don't want to do it as it surely is feasible under social distance measures.

[vaud]

Congrats...

Are you sure they aren't doing it? My sister in law had all of their scans etc as normal under COVID, where as the other appointments were moved to phone/video calls.

[ChocolateFrog]

fourstardan said:

Hi new father in October....has anyone found any ways to do the antenatal?

NHS aren't doing it so wondering how the hell I get my missus mentally prepared .

Can't see why they don't want to do it as it surely is feasible under social distance measures.

There wasn't anything said or done at the ante-natal classes that we didn't already know as first time parents, some bits got fleshed out a bit maybe.

I'd suggest speaking to friends or relatives that have kids already about any questions or I'm sure you could ring the GP/health visitor with any specific medical questions.

The OH read a couple of books that she said were helpful too.

[vaud]

ChocolateFrog said:

The OH read a couple of books that she said were helpful too.

Not too many though or they will make you paranoid.

[ChocolateFrog]

vaud said:

Not too many though or they will make you paranoid.

Yes, or the opposite, they'll give you an idealised view where everything goes according to your plan, it almost certainly won't.

[Jcwjosh]

ChocolateFrog said:

There wasn't anything said or done at the ante-natal classes that we didn't already know as first time parents, some bits got fleshed out a bit maybe.

I'd suggest speaking to friends or relatives that have kids already about any questions or I'm sure you could ring the GP/health visitor with any specific medical questions.

The OH read a couple of books that she said were helpful too.

We had our little one during lockdown and none of the classes were offered as they were not running. You will get better advice from this thread than you will from anyone at the NHS.That is my opinion of course..

[ukbabz]

We did the NCT classes online (we weren't offered NHS ones) and our ltitle one was born during lockdown too. Felt a bit of a waste of time, and didn't really work very well but it did give my wife a good set of contacts with the other mums.

[Lazadude]

I think the classes are designed for the people who shouldnt be having kids. Like having to have a bath at 36/37 (you know, body temp) rather than 45 degrees.... and you shouldnt feed them water and coca cola in their bottle.

Wife did Daisy birthing, which is an alternative to the "buy some friends" NCT classes. She liked them, pregnancy yoga and stretching etc.

[vaud]

Lazadude said:

you shouldnt feed them water and coca cola in their bottle.

...which happens a shocking amount in some groups. Similarly "don't smoke next to your child"

[thebraketester]

We’ve got NCT classes booked in sept. Tbh we are not really wanting them for continued group contact, just for the information really. We are 30 weeks, seems to be going quite fast :-S

[p1stonhead]

thebraketester said:

We’ve got NCT classes booked in sept. Tbh we are not really wanting them for continued group contact, just for the information really. We are 30 weeks, seems to be going quite fast :-S

The Covid angle is unfortunate but if you are happy doing them, we found them fantastic and I was a massive cynic beforehand.

[fourstardan]

Yeh missus said about NCT but at the price they wanted for basically a ZOOM call I think I'd rather just network and seek advice elsewhere. We've already met people with toddlers I know through people I play a bit of golf with.

Thanks guys

[The jiffle king]

We did NCT by Zoom and that worked pretty well for us but the NHS classes close to us were all cancelled (This was back in May)

[thatsprettyshady]

We have just finished our 1-1 antenatal course, done online through the NHS with their version of Zoom. Worked really well and feel tonnes better than before. We were offered these by the NHS but if that wasn’t forthcoming we were going to go for “maternity collective” which are offering free classes during pandemic.

https://www.thematernitycollective.co.uk/

[richatnort]

Our little girl is 1 today!!!! 1! Where has the last 12 months gone, it's honestly flown by! We have such a happy easy going baby we're so lucky!

[The Moose]

I don’t know if anyone’s interested, but a friend of mine who’s a primary school teacher decided she’s start a YouTube channel reading kids stories. Don’t know if it’s of interest to anyone’s kids on here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ8kK-CpPdrMFzvUB...

[The Moose]

Lazadude said:

I think the classes are designed for the people who shouldnt be having kids. Like having to have a bath at 36/37 (you know, body temp) rather than 45 degrees.... and you shouldnt feed them water and coca cola in their bottle.

Yes. At ours the lady said in a jovial way “oh and don’t forget you must never shake your baby”. The way she said it sounded like she was joking. She wasn’t impressed when my wife and I laughed. Lol