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9 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

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8 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

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5 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

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When Do Babies Learn Their Name?

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When Do Babies Get Tears?

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7 Stages of Crawling: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Parents

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When Do Babies See Color?

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5 Cute and Fun Half Birthday Ideas

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6 Week Old Baby: What to Expect

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16-Month-Old Baby: Milestones & Development

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15-Month-Old Baby: Milestones & Development

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Recent discussions

Non Speaking

My Boy just turned 2 in September, my concern is that he still doesn't have any clear words, he points and gestures like hands me his empty bottle or grabs things he wants but doesn't verbally say anything... His hearing is fine I know that, he barely gets screen time either and I am trying my hardest to verbalize everything I do or repeat words when he wants something.. anybody else got this problem or advice?🫠

Is it normal that my baby moans more than I did when I was pregnant?! 7 Months old and his favourite sound is moaning! 😂😭 Like bless your heart little one but what are we complaining about now?! Send wine!!

Quick sanity check required — is it normal for a tiny human to moan literally from the second they wake up till they pass out at night?! 😂 I didn’t sign up for a tiny grumpy flatmate who doesn’t even pay rent. Someone tell me it’s a phase?! Doesn’t want to sit on my lap for more than 1 minute then moans when he’s not, wants to sleep but doesn’t so screws about it, god forbid I left the room - all he’ll breaks lose…. He even moans when he’s eating in between being excited and laughing…. I have more grey hairs than my mum I swear 🙏 just keeping it real 😩😂🥰

Words

My LO is 15 months old. He says dada and understands basically everything I say to him. But he’s not saying proper words yet. I asked him to say ‘door’ and he did for around two days pointing to the door and then stopped. I asked him what does lion say and he says ‘rooooahh’ and then monkey ‘oo oo ooo’
Do these count as words?

Speech Therapy

My LO had her 15 month ped appt and her ped said she should be saying 8-10 words…she is referring us to a speech therapist because she only says around 4-5 words (she babbles like crazy tho). FTM - should I be concerned? I thought every baby is different and develops speech at their own pace? Anyone in the same boat?

19 month old tantrums

Just need some reassurance really, my 19 month old boy over the past 3 or so days has been having multiple tantrums , they feel really intense though, he literally hates being told no, one minute wants something and the next he doesn’t want it when I go to offer it, I’m sure it’s normal it’s just a lot mentally, I feel drained by the end of the day. Is there big changes that happen at this age?

Toddler tantrums

Soo how are we handling the meltdowns over everything?🫠
My daughter turned 2 in August and it's getting rough out here 🫪

Need some advice!

I don't know what to do about my stepson 9, and I'm genuinely worried about the safety and well-being of my biological children.

A few years ago, I caught my stepson on camera bullying my biological son. When we would come into the room, he would pretend he didn't know why my son was crying. When we confronted him about his behavior, he said his mother had told him to hit my son.

About a year ago, I noticed him staring at me continuously. When I asked him what he was thinking about, he told me that a little voice in his head kept telling him to hurt me. That statement really concerned me, but I wasn't sure what to make of it.

More recently, another incident occurred when he apparently thought no one was listening, not realizing my mother was within earshot. My biological son had his hands over his ears while my stepson told him, "I'm never going to play with you again, even if you die and beg me." My mother reassured my son that he didn't have to listen to those comments, and my son explained that he already knew that was why he had been covering his ears and trying to ignore him.

When my mother asked my stepson why he was saying those things, he again said that a little voice in his head was telling him to do it.

These incidents have left me extremely concerned. For the safety of my biological children, I no longer allow my stepson to be alone with them. I don't want to label him or assume I know what is causing this behavior, but I am frightened by the repeated statements about voices telling him to hurt people, combined with the behavior I have witnessed.

My husband left us approximately three months ago and has largely been absent from the children's lives. He is now in another relationship, and I am caring for all the children full-time. My husband has full custody of my stepson because his biological mother was abusive toward him.

I understand that my stepson may have experienced trauma himself, and I don't want him to suffer or go without the help he needs. However, I also have a responsibility to protect my biological children. Right now, I do not feel safe having my stepson in my home without his father present and taking responsibility for him.

I'm overwhelmed, worried, and unsure what steps to take next. How do I protect my children while making sure my stepson gets the professional help he may need, especially when his father is absent and I am left handling everything on my own?

Toddler’s behaviour

Is anyone elses toddler being the definition of naughty? My daughter was fine for the first few weeks and lot has gone on at home so i get that theres been a very big change for her and shes been poorly. But at the moment she is non stop hitting me, now pulling my hair, i told her she couldnt have a knife so shes scratched her brother, shes climbed behind the sofa slapped me in the face and pulled my hair and just laughed when i told her no. Im honestly at the end with her behaviour and have no support i dont know what else to do. She has a lot of attention and i have my son in the carrier so i can give her the support

Crawling

My little girl is 8 months and 1 week and not crawling. She doesn't seem interested really. She doesn't get herself onto her hand and knees. And when I get her in crawling position she rocks for a bit then her legs spread out and she's on her tummy again
I put a toy Infront of her or the cat and she just tries to reach with her arms and then gets upset with frustration
She does help weger love being on her feet, I have no doubt she'll be walking by Christmas
Anyone else in the same boat?

Head banging?

LO is nearly 15 months and when he’s at home and upset/angry he will either bang his head on something or the wall and then look at me and cry or lean forward and do it on the carpet? He’s done it on his cot too if I haven’t got him out fast enough. I don’t know what to do and where he’s even got that from? Can anyone give any advice? Is it a sign of autism?

Speech delay

Hey ! I’m a first time mama to my 2 and a half year old babygirl. I’m trying not to stress out but my daughter barely says any words she only says 3 barely thank you but shown she knows how to say it and mama - dada. She understands when I ask her to do things I just don’t know what to do we r trying to teach her to speak more before speech therapy…

Struggling to regulate emotions?

Anyone else found that their toddler is struggling to regulate big feelings recently?

My toddler will cry, kick his legs and lay on the floor when he doesn’t get to do something. This isn’t all the time but does happen a few times a day. I try my best to support him in a calm way.

This seems to have started really recently, almost out of the blue.

Is this developmentally normal? Or am I doing some wrong?

Anyone’s little one not talking??

My little boy keeps regressing, he will learn words and then stop using them & I don’t know how worried I should be, in all other things he seems to be doing just fine..

How did you get your little ones to talk?

My son is 2 and a half, but he's only able to say a few words.. he's currently in speech therapy.. I'm trying not to worry, but it's hard 😮‍💨

Lazy baby

This is baby no3 so like to think I know what I’m doing 🤣 however this is my first boy.

7 months and still is t sitting up unaided, no interest in crawling. Only rolls onto his front and that’s literally it.

Not interested in food what so ever, I’ve tried everything!

Still doesn’t sleep through the night even on 2 naps …

My other 2 at this point was eating food like to was going out of fashion. And was definitely a lot more indecent with sitting, rolling etc.

I’m not worried as I’m sure he’ll do it when his ready, but is anyone else in the same boat? And when should I start worrying 🙈

Does anyone else's baby laugh at the weirdest things?

My little boy finds being undressed absolutely hilarious for some reason. What gets your little ones giggling?

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