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My daughter is almost 14 months old.

She goes to bed around 7pm (set routine) but often wakes up around 5am, screaming and crying wanting milk/food / nappy change and so we often have to get up. Does anyone have any tips so she can last till 6am?

Also she has started nursery we get the 30 hours free child care and have just discovered the tax free chidcare account which we haven’t used (we were not aware of this until the nursery sent a memo out regarding payments being returned this week). From my understanding they pay in up to 20%, up to a maximum of £500 every 3 months (£2,000 per year) the name of the benefit doesn’t quite fit for me and hasn’t been well advertised by the gov. I watched a YouTube video in which Martin Lewis basically said around 500k parents pay nursery fees this way and that their should be around 1m.

Has anyone used the tax free child account and is it easy to use / setup/ navigate ?

 

[tom_e]

We've used the tax free account since our daughter started at the childminders/nursery at 11 months. My wife deals with it which means it must be pretty straightforward as she's generally terrible at dealing with anything involving paperwork

 

[dirtychinchilla]

My daughter is almost 14 months old.

She goes to bed around 7pm (set routine) but often wakes up around 5am, screaming and crying wanting milk/food / nappy change and so we often have to get up. Does anyone have any tips so she can last till 6am?

Also she has started nursery we get the 30 hours free child care and have just discovered the tax free chidcare account which we haven’t used (we were not aware of this until the nursery sent a memo out regarding payments being returned this week). From my understanding they pay in up to 20%, up to a maximum of £500 every 3 months (£2,000 per year) the name of the benefit doesn’t quite fit for me and hasn’t been well advertised by the gov. I watched a YouTube video in which Martin Lewis basically said around 500k parents pay nursery fees this way and that their should be around 1m.

Has anyone used the tax free child account and is it easy to use / setup/ navigate ?

Ours gets up at 6 AM. Preemptive feed could work - do it in the middle of the night.

Thanks for the heads up on the tax free childcare account! Edit: the portal reads to me like as long as you're putting in your funds, you get them topped up anyway.

 

[TommyV]

Oh boy - Me nor my partner were able to sleep until 4am as our 1yo is a little under the weather following her first week at nursery, up just before 7am.

Attempting to get tweaked on coffee ASAP and have my first quarterly review for new role within the hour. Going to be fun!

 

[Fringe]

Oh boy - Me nor my partner were able to sleep until 4am as our 1yo is a little under the weather following her first week at nursery, up just before 7am.

Attempting to get tweaked on coffee ASAP and have my first quarterly review for new role within the hour. Going to be fun!

Have been there , just wait till you start getting the nursery bugs then the fun begins.

 

[TommyV]

Have been there , just wait till you start getting the nursery bugs then the fun begins.

We are hoping that her older sister (who also goes nursery) has slowly exposed her to some of these bugs over the last year so that this won’t be too much of a nightmare. Wishful thinking perhaps

Said older sister had a real hard time for the first 2 months when she started, with it slowly getting better over the next 4 months or so

Thank goodness for the timings we have fortunately fallen into for nursery funding and free hours, when our eldest started we were touching £1200~ month for 4 days/week

Now we’re looking about roughly the same cost for 2 children to go at £600~ per child for the same hours

 

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We are hoping that her older sister (who also goes nursery) has slowly exposed her to some of these bugs over the last year so that this won’t be too much of a nightmare. Wishful thinking perhaps

Said older sister had a real hard time for the first 2 months when she started, with it slowly getting better over the next 4 months or so

Thank goodness for the timings we have fortunately fallen into for nursery funding and free hours, when our eldest started we were touching £1200~ month for 4 days/week

Now we’re looking about roughly the same cost for 2 children to go at £600~ per child for the same hours

We were fortunate with the timing aswell regarding the 30 hours of childcare.

Our bill is around £580 a month, with the tax free account that will drop to around £460.

Note my daughter only goes to nursey 4 days a week.

 

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The bills for nursery are pure extorsion to start with and all you get for free are the sickness bugs , when our little one was in there it was the most i had been ill for years

 

[TommyV]

We were fortunate with the timing aswell regarding the 30 hours of childcare.

Our bill is around £580 a month, with the tax free account that will drop to around £460.

Note my daughter only goes to nursey 4 days a week.

Yeah good shout, I was thinking nursery bills but we also pay them via the gov accounts, it’s such a huge help overall.