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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.