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0·17 Jul 2026·on Partner's back at school, so it's me and a 3 month old till 4.30 every day

A practical worry from our time: whoever you get, have them start while you're still on leave for a few weeks. When my partner went back to work, someone new started the same week, and that was the hard part, not the baby.

3·22 Jun 2026·on five months old and he grabs fistfuls of my hair during every feed

My partner went through this with both our boys. What worked best was a cloth tied loosely round the neck with a couple of knots in it. The baby would hold the knots instead. The glasses we never solved. Contact lenses at home for a few months was the only answer.

0·20 Jun 2026·on When do schools start taking class 8 forms for the following year?

Tolichowki side too. For our boys we saw forms from about November. The catch for a middle class like 8 is that seats depend on who leaves, and some schools only know that around March. So you could apply in November and hear 'waitlist' till spring. Worth calling two or three schools in October and asking how they handle class 8 specifically.