Baby Milestones

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Toys

Hi! Not sure if I’m being overly sensitive but my friend came over today and pointed out that we don’t have loads of toys for baby and called me tight! It made me feel like a bit of a bad mum. For context, baby is 5 months and just learnt to sit up unaided she doesn’t really show any interest in any of the toys we h...

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Hand flapping

I really don't want to jump on the whole 'could my baby be autistic' train and know that for the most part it's too early to tell, I also want to point out that I don't feel like my baby being autistic would be a negative thing, I just want to be prepared to best support her. Does anybody else's baby flap their arm...

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I’m slowly thinking this is worse than the newborn stage

My son will turn 2 in August and the screaming phase we are going through is excruciating. I’m really patient but I have a constant headache from all the screams. I don’t know what to do at this point and I’m worried that we haven’t hit the terrible twos yet and it’s supposed get worse??!! Any mums relate?

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Feel like i’m failing and struggling

so my baby is 10 and a half months not crawling not walking. i’ve recent started a new job and im exhausted. i feel like im doing a really shit job at the moment excuse my language. and i just don’t know what to do! i’m struggling to find and do activities with my little one and i can’t think of any either. i feel l...

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Playpen recommendations

Hi! My 7 month old baby is crawling and trying to stand in the cot, so we bought this playpen but I think she doesn’t like it because it is too tall to allow her to catch the borders and stand upright. We bought this one because it takes 2 seconds to fold. Any recommendations? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tutti-Bambini...

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Falling over all the time

My baby has recently started crawling and trying to pull herself up on absolutely everything. She loves her activity table but she has fallen and hit her head a couple of times literally in the last 30 mins. Most of the time she carries on playing and sometimes she cries and is better after a cuddle but it does stre...

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Frustration

Anyone else's almost 18 month old still not walking fully independently? Mine somewhat can but just won't and won't stand without holding onto something!! I know he will in time atleast I hope but I get so bothered by it!! His eating is also pretty shit still n super fussy! Just having a bad day 😢

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Milestones

Does anyone else feel like their baby isn’t reaching milestones like other babies this age? It worries me and makes me feel like a bad mom even though I do my best.

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Cries to noise

Anyone else’s baby super sensitive to noise? Even if I’m scrolling on insta and there’s a video with sound (eg a piano playing not loud at all) baby will react shocked and start crying. Does this mean he’s more sensitive to noise than usual? When he hears kids playing and shouting during playing he will start cr...

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Zoning out

My little boy zones out when watching TV and will not respond to anyone around him whilst he is fixated on it, is this normal? Has anyone else experienced this?

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weird noises

My baby is starting to make this sound more and more like a idk a crow or something, only since yesterday or maybe the day before, she’s happy doing so but it’s a new one and just sounds abit weird. Anyone heard this before? She seems fine in herself but still idk it’s just not her normal babbling or anything! She d...

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Hitting & biting

I’m at a loss of what to do. My lo is 18m and has started entering the phase of throwing big,big tantrums. To express her anger she’ll start hitting, sometimes in the face and when I say no she laughs and keeps smacking? Yesterday I broke down crying because I just felt so defeated. Biting started two days ago also....

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Bumbo seat

Has anyone else bought their babies a bumbo seat? My baby loves sitting in it when I’m doing things so he can be by me but it seems like he always spits up when he’s in it?? I have another lounger thing he seems to do better in but he’s not as happy in it? Anyone else experience this?

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How to stop LO biting

We’ve been to our first nursery settle session today and my LO gets over excited and tries to bite all the other kids, I was so embarrassed, any tips of how to stop him doing this please? I don’t want it to become a big problem…

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Almost 2 year old

Hello , everyone my almost 2 year old has been acting out she has been saying no to everything & has been hitting little kids in her class. Any suggestions on how to discipline & to get her to stop & to let her know that’s not okay ?

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13 months started hitting head

He will just slap his head randomly. It’s not aggressive but he just recently started doing it. Not all the time just random

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