MOMumental Toddler Support

Baby girl coming along at the beginning of 2026 and I’m very excited!! The more my pregnancy progresses I feel like my son is drifting away from me and my hormones are wild so finding it really upsetting. He’s started suddenly looking for his dad more for bedtimes/playtimes etc. don’t get me wrong he still plays with me, calls for me through the night, gives me a cuddle and interacts with me and I spend more time with him as I work part time rather than his dad full time.

I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced this whilst pregnant with their second also? I know I should be taking it as a positive as when baby girl arrives it’ll be so helpful to have him feel so comfortable to be with his dad for more of the comfort stuff but can’t help feeling like I’m doing something wrong and I’m a rubbish mum cause he doesn’t want me as much… I just want to do everything for him and feel like this is the only time I’ve got until baby arrives to really just be focused on him at all times!

Does anyone else have a really shy and timid toddler. My little boy is 22 months old now and he’s so withdrawn and reserved. He gets really upset and overwhelmed if people approach him or even if people make eye contact with him sometimes he just looks down and runs back to me. Sometimes we’ll go out and he’ll just ignore that people are there and enjoy himself but some days he just can’t let go and he’s so hyper vigilant of everybody around him. The other day we have some friends round who have children the same age and he’s met them before, but he wouldn’t come in the living room where they were for a good 20 minutes. I can’t help but think I’ve done something wrong and I feel so terrible for him. I feel terrible leaving him at the Childminder she only has two children which he doesn’t mind and he has got used to them, but she takes him to a playgroup and says that he just doesn’t settle there at all 😔 sometimes noises really bother him. He has every single noise and wonders what it is and sometimes even the sound of aeroplanes were really spooked him out and then he’s really thrown off then and can’t enjoy himself.

Any tips or advice would be really helpful for how I can help him come out of his shell and know that the world isn’t scary

My LO (3 y.o) started preschool late February. Prior he had never been sick but once. Since he has been sick 3-4 times me leading to his first ear infection we maybe get a week and a half between illness! How often was your LO sick around this age?

How do I redirect my toddler from hurting the baby when she finds it hilarious. She laughs when she hurts him and when we acknowledge the problem. I’m at a loss for what to do. My toddler is 18 months and the baby is almost 3 weeks

Hi everyone I’ve never written in here before but thought worth a try as I don’t know who else to talk to other than mums themselves!

My 2 year old son is telling me to go away every-time he gets back from nursery and shouting I don’t want mummy! It’s sooo heart breaking and selfishly makes me feel like I’m completely failing and that he hates me, I’m to embarrassed to speak to anyone I know about this incase they think that I’m doing a rubbish job, has anyone else experienced this?? He’s so sweet normally and is so cuddly and loving so it’s just really upsetting when this happens! WHAT DO I DO!!!