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The Fourth Trimester: What Considerate Postpartum Care Actually Looks Like

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Feeling Lighter in Early Motherhood: Therapist-Approved Ways to Ease the Emotional Load

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Maternity leave shouldn’t cost you your future: what every new mum needs to know about the parental pension gap

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Why Intrusive Thoughts Get Worse Before Your Period — and What Helps

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Cycle Syncing: How to Hack Your Hormones Without Losing Your Mind

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The Best Baby Shower Gifts (That Parents Will Actually Use)

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Why It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for Your Child’s Future

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How to Start Saving for Your Child’s Future (Without the Overwhelm)

Phoebe Corcoran

How to Get Over a Friendship Breakup (Without Hating Them or Yourself)

Tassia O'Callaghan

Beyond the Curve: How an Arcuate Uterus Affects (and Doesn’t Affect) Your Life

Tassia O'Callaghan

Low Testosterone in Women: What You Need to Know

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7 Ways to Make Friends in a New City (That Actually Work!)

Tassia O'Callaghan

How to Make Friends as an Adult: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Strong Social Circle

Tassia O'Callaghan

“I Have No Friends”: 7 Tips to Find Your BFF

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460+ Questions to Ask Your Friends to Get to Know Them Better

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From the community

SMP

Am I being out of order to my partner?
I have just received my first months SMP pay.
We knew things were going to be tight for paying bills. So to help out financially I have done extra work this month at a second job to help pay a little extra towards bills and to be able to have some extra cash for day to day life.
I must’ve work well this month as I have nearly enough to cover half of our joint bills. However my partner is now saying that I can pay everything I have towards our bills leaving me with nothing, but he can’t spare the extra £200 difference because he can’t afford it 🤯

I’m sorry but I’m feeling this is really out of order and unfair? Firstly I have been out and worked my butt off in a manual labour job, whilst looking after our now 7 month old baby to earn this money to help our family through the next 3 months only to have to carry on paying my usual share of the bills leaving me with absolutely nothing 😤

He can’t see why I have and issue and why I feel so disappointed in his lack of help.

Like am I just too old school in my thinking that a man should be providing for his family?
At this point I feel like I should just return to my full time job and figure out how to juggle working full time whilst looking after our child as she doesn’t go to nursery until January

jobs??

how are we finding jobs that allow babies nowadays i dont wanna leave my baby but in this economy its so hard getting by!! and i dont wanna leave her with anyone else help!!

Birth control options

Hey mamas! FTM here! I’m 2 months postpartum and starting to look into birth control options. I wanted to ask other moms what birth control you use, what you recommend, and what your personal experiences have been like. I’m a little nervous about choosing one, especially when it comes to side effects, weight changes, hormones, etc. I’d love to hear your experiences and recommendations! ❤️

Friendss

Hey! Looking for friends! I have noticed my friends have been unsupportive towards me/barely text & just looking to make a new group of friends!! ☺️ My daughter is 6 months old!

New on the app! Live in AR

First time mom with no mom friends! Spent Halloween with my MIL passing out candy 😅 would love to meet new people

Single Moms That Want to Travel with other single moms

Creating a group chat with other single moms that want to travel with their littles

Any mommies here like to be on the phone or text throughout the day

I am looking for more mommies in any area who don't mind texting or being otp. I am currently located in Indiana but don't mind long distance. Im open to do a group chat as well if that works better.

I want to leave my husband

My baby is 11 months old and since he was born I resent my husband and just don’t love him.

I want to leave but financially that would be stupid as he earns a lot of money and I wouldn’t have anything to my name.

I don’t see our relationship getting better he never helps out because he’s always working but I don’t think that’s fair on me.

Mom friends in near Lancaster PA!

Hoping to find one of those Mom friends that would like to talk to you each day during the workday just to make them better and faster. And then even on to have little friends for our son who's just 2 1/2.

I feel so sad. //31 weeks pregnant twins

Lately I been not in a great headspace and been crying a lot almost like grieving over the fact that I do not have any of my so called friends messaging me since being pregnant or making an effort to come over to hang out. It would mainly be me offering to meet up in town or a small hang out area but ..The plan never goes through but since then I realised not a single so called "friends" have even bothered to check up on me or ask how the pregnancy is going as time has gotten closer and the third trimester being really difficult right now..
For example, around the end of September, I knew one of my mates were going to be out of England for a month, and I wanted to see them before they left. They never told me when other than the beginning of October, so I tried to see if they wanted to meet up, but they kept avoiding the suggestion, and I thought that was weird. Then I didn't hear from them after thar until I found out they been out of England and didn't even bother to tell me....To top it off was active all that entire month on social amd I tried messaging but dead silence for an entire month. But as soon as they sneaked back to England and still no messages. The only thing I got from them was a stupid reel, no message... I felt so deflated at this point and realised I don't think I can be friends with them knowing I have been friends with them for 4 years and had a good friendship..It was like I couldn't recognise who I was messaging or hanging out with...So I have spent couple weeks just meltdown after meltdown about it realising I have no friends who care...
My other mate isn't any better ether she hadn't messaged me once. Who knew about the pregnancy and no messages off of her. She posted that she is having a Halloween night with her mate, and I haven't heard from her since she messaged in early September and saying she was pregnant then messaged shortly after that said she muscarried unfortunately but i tried to keep in touch worrying about how she was coping but leading up to that she didn't message or respond to my previous messages.

So I'm just so embarrassed and upset about the realisation that I'm alone, no friends, no work mates messaging me since I have been on maternity leave, and I just feel so disconnected as a 25 year old I should have some women friends about at least but no..The only person that is helping ne get through it is my partner and his mum and his dad side of the family.

Does anyone relate..