Hi Jeff, yeah, I didn’t have those expenses in the nursery/gear category. We either had the things you mentioned already or didn’t use them.
My daughter never napped in the bed when she was a baby or slept alone at all in the bed, for that matter. When she was sleeping and I wasn’t going to bed yet, I always had her in the baby wrap for sleeping. Glad those times are over!
The advantage of that was that she didn’t awake from me moving, though. Have you tried playing background noise when she falls asleep, so she gets used to it not being silent?
Yeah, the daycare/private schooling thing is really different in Germany. Daycare here is very cheap, private schools are a bit more expensive, but still very cheap by UK and US standards. I want to keep the homeschooling option open too, that’s why I intend to move away from Germany soon-ish (homeschooling is illegal here).
For almost the first 2,5 years I stayed home with my daughter and homeschooled myself until I was done with schooling. That was pretty exhausting and I don’t particularly recommend it. After that, I started my degree and first had my daughter in daycare until the afternoon, it was a group setting for about eight children aged 1-3 and three child-care workers. She stayed there for a year and now she is in what we call kindergarden for children aged 3-6 with about 15 children in one group and again 3 child-care workers.
Both solutions were private institutions and expensive in comparison, especially where she went to first, but I got reduced fees.
We either had the things you mentioned already or didn’t use them.
A minor example: you don’t need outlet covers in europe because the outlets are designed in a safer way.
When she was sleeping and I wasn’t going to bed yet, I always had her in the baby wrap for sleeping.
We did that for the first maybe three months, but as she got older and less good at sleeping through everything we found that crib naps worked better. We’ll still do that occasionally when she needs a nap and we’re out.
Have you tried playing background noise when she falls asleep, so she gets used to it not being silent?
We do that, and it helps. Noise outside of our room (piano, bagpipes, etc) doesn’t wake her up, but noise inside does. I’m not sure how that works for her, but I guess she can tell there’s someone there.
Hi Jeff, yeah, I didn’t have those expenses in the nursery/gear category. We either had the things you mentioned already or didn’t use them.
My daughter never napped in the bed when she was a baby or slept alone at all in the bed, for that matter. When she was sleeping and I wasn’t going to bed yet, I always had her in the baby wrap for sleeping. Glad those times are over! The advantage of that was that she didn’t awake from me moving, though. Have you tried playing background noise when she falls asleep, so she gets used to it not being silent?
Yeah, the daycare/private schooling thing is really different in Germany. Daycare here is very cheap, private schools are a bit more expensive, but still very cheap by UK and US standards. I want to keep the homeschooling option open too, that’s why I intend to move away from Germany soon-ish (homeschooling is illegal here).
For almost the first 2,5 years I stayed home with my daughter and homeschooled myself until I was done with schooling. That was pretty exhausting and I don’t particularly recommend it. After that, I started my degree and first had my daughter in daycare until the afternoon, it was a group setting for about eight children aged 1-3 and three child-care workers. She stayed there for a year and now she is in what we call kindergarden for children aged 3-6 with about 15 children in one group and again 3 child-care workers. Both solutions were private institutions and expensive in comparison, especially where she went to first, but I got reduced fees.
A minor example: you don’t need outlet covers in europe because the outlets are designed in a safer way.
We did that for the first maybe three months, but as she got older and less good at sleeping through everything we found that crib naps worked better. We’ll still do that occasionally when she needs a nap and we’re out.
We do that, and it helps. Noise outside of our room (piano, bagpipes, etc) doesn’t wake her up, but noise inside does. I’m not sure how that works for her, but I guess she can tell there’s someone there.