August 2024 Babies 🇺🇸

Looking for any advice from other toddler moms. My 2 year old is going through a phase of wanting to be held ALL THE TIME. I literally mean all the time. I feel like I can’t walk away without an “up! Up!” She no longer wants to use her feet during walks, she only wants to be held. Any time I’m prepping dinner or doing anything away from her it’s just “up!” Personally, I can deal with it even if it’s annoying and frustrating, but I can tell it’s becoming hard for her teacher because she can’t hold her all day and she just cries when she’s not being held. It makes me sad seeing daycare pics because all the kids are having so much fun and mine is never in the pic because she’s being held. I know there’s been some regressions with moving up to this new class but ANY advice would be helpful. Even if you can just relate, that would make me feel better. 😑

Hey mamas

So, my baby starts daycare in a week and I’m soo nervous. She’s two years old and one month. Today, we went to the park and another kid took her ball (1 year old) and she came over crying to me. I also notice she wasn’t really playing with the other kids. A lot of them was bigger but she’s didn’t even want to go by them. She was running left while they were running right. However, she does love to be around adults. 😫

I’m just sooo scared. I want her to play with other kids and make friends. I’m driving myself crazy and I don’t know what to do. I just want her to hurry up and adjust 😭

The past couple weeks, my daughter has been super jealous when it comes to my son. (Hes 7 months she’s 2 years old) like if he’s eating something she’ll throw a fit and say “me me me” wanting what he’s having which I can understand but it’s also when my fiancé or I are you know Playing with him or giving him the slightest bit of attention she gets all mad and tries to step in or you know throw a fit. Like I can understand why she would feel jealous. I’m just confused and why she feels jealous now and didn’t feel jealous when he was first born. is anyone else going through this? my fiancé told me not to give into it, especially with the food thing where she throws a fit over the food, not give it to her cause it’s his and she needs to learn that, but I don’t want her feeling left out, I already feel guilty enough about having a second baby so close to her and I didn’t really get to give her a chance of being a only child which I know sounds so wrong, but I do feel guilty about that. But don’t get me wrong. She loves her brother! she plays with him every day. I just think now that he’s starting to like play with stuff and move around and eating food now too. It’s starting to really like make the jealousy come out

I work 8:30am-3pm Monday-Friday , I have an almost 8 month old and a two year-old. I work at a daycare and bring my kids with me to work. so by the time I’m home I am literally exhausted😩 I like to have at least an hour to myself if I’m lucky at night , I usually cook dinner around 4:30-5ish and have both the kids bathed and ready for bed by 6:30-7ish. but is that too early? My daughter normally doesn’t fall asleep till like 8:30-9 ish but I put her in her room and she plays and watches her Elmo til bedtime and that’s when I usually have my quiet time . I just feel guilty, because I know it’s so important to have time for yourself, but I don’t want my child’s childhood boring , she gets to play all day long at daycare just by the time I’m home I don’t have energy 😵‍💫

So we're a military family with absolutely no family whatsoever in the state and I don't have any sort of village. I was a stay at home mom but got no support from my husband, and I needed breaks so I put our daughter in daycare but I still don't work. I spend the day cooking, cleaning, gym and something for myself like thrifting. I do have 4,000 of my own income that I contribute because of VA benefits. Do you think it's selfish to put my daughter in daycare (some weeks it's full time, other weeks it's part time and she does great both ways). Sometimes I feel very selfish because it's like I'm not spending so much time with her as I feel like she deserves. But at the same time my husband told me SAHMs don't deserve breaks (we're getting divorced don't worry lol) and the only way for me to get relief was daycare and I truly have no desire to go back to being a FT SAHM. I like getting time to myself and being able to cook, clean in peace.