Meals

Anyone else's baby still not a fan of solids? LG is still on one meal a day :(

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I can't even say my son is on one meal a day! I try but after 3 spoons he screams and will absolutely not let anything else into his mouth. He'll chomp on some finger foods but spits most of it out. The only thing he actually shallows are melty puffs/melty sticks so I end up giving him those at the end of most meals to keep him happy. Even then, most of it ends up on the floor. My daughter (just turned 2) wasn't a huge fan of solids but at least ate something whereas my son refuses everything. Really hard work!

Mine definitely isn’t..I can get her to try stuff but she gags on nearly everything she eats (even purée) and I don’t know what to do 😞 I think one day she will just get it (well more hoping) but apart from a couple of mouthfuls, it’s most definitely still mainly bottles

Same

My little boy is struggling too. We offer once mostly twice a day but he hardly has anything at all. Will hold it, bring it to his mouth but doesn’t do much else with it. Only thing he will tend to definitely try is cucumber and again as someone else said melty puffs. We’ve been doing BLW for months and months as he won’t be spoon fed, won’t even let me hold a solid piece of food near his mouth. I find it frustrating when everyone else his age around us seems to be thriving x

this is so us too including the melty puff part - I've tried everything, finger foods, purees and some textured as well as thr pouches, but no, just doesn't wanna know then cries for a boob 🥺 this is starting to take a toll on me now.

My little boy is very hit and miss. He sometimes likes breakfast then next day not but wants dinner! It’s all very frustrating and stressful. I’m not enjoying this weaning process as much as id hoped!

I’ve had friends tell me their children didn’t take to it properly until 10/11 months, someone even said 13/14 months! Guess we’ve just got to keep persevering x

in our community

Am I wrong for getting upset?

Long story short. My cousin made a group chat for bridesmaids and groomsman to plan out bachelorette party.
I sent one text about finding a sitter and my cousin texts me to stop saying stuff like that cause no one gives a shit? As if no one else is gonna mention their personal lives during planning a trip of 10 people?
I. Put the screenshots. I got so hurt I told her just count me out if the mention of my kid offends everyone.

Having a bit of a sad day

I don’t know if I want advice or just to get it out a bit.
I had a bit of a rubbish Mother’s Day, and then today had a falling out with my mum.
Very long story short, me and my partner turn 30 this year and were thinking of taking a short trip (2-3 days max) just the two of us to celebrate. Our son will be 2 by then.
We had discussed leaving our son with our parents and them sort of splitting having him (eg. My mum has him one night and my boyfriend’s mum has him the other two nights, or whatever we collectively decide on). They are both happy to do this.

Yesterday my MIL was pushing my son’s pram and got distracted and pushed it off the pavement into the road, a car missed the pram by about 5 seconds. This upset me a lot.

Me and my partner discussed this later on and I said it worries me leaving our son with her in case she does something like that. We also discussed the fact that my mum pays very little attention to our son when she’s with him and is absolutely glued to her phone (looking at social media etc) so we might just take him on holiday with us.

Then this morning I had a chat with my mum and told her we would probably just take our son away with us. She asked why and I mentioned the pram thing with my MIL so she said she would just have him- so I thought it was time to mention that when she’s with him she is glued to her phone and gets distracted and that it just worries me a bit. (For reference she’s been watching him before and because she’s been on her phone he’s managed to get half way up her stairs.)
She absolutely lost it at me. Called me rude etc.

I try so hard not to upset anyone and I’m just so so fed up now. I just wish it was simple and we could trust them to take care of him but they are both away with the fairies.

I want to talk to my mum but i don’t know how to approach it now. Just feel like i need a big cry.

Water

My LO is 10 months old and I try and offer him water with meals but he will only take a couple of sips. I’ve tried adding freshly made apple juice to sweeten it a bit, in case this would entice him, but he still refused. I think if it’s not milk, he doesn’t want it, or it’s odd to him.

Any tips?

Married couples…who handles car maintenance in your household?

Oil changes, tune ups, tires, car washing/vacuuming, etc

Ughhh

I am so overwhelmed!! My baby isn’t sleeping and I’ve got a raging headache and all this legal stuff is making me feel irritated and I just want to cry.
I absolutely hate the idea of letting him just cry while I take 5 seconds

I really hate to come out here and tell my business about what’s going on with my life in my kids, but I had no choice

I just came back from a parent teachers conference meeting and they telling me that my second daughter, who just turned eight about a week ago that she barely know how to read and she has speech problems… I already feel like shit because it’s not that I’m doing my job. It’s because I worked a lot, and and every time, me and my first oldest daughter, trying to teach you how to read, she gets insecure and thinking that we making fun of her, but we’re not!! I felt like a shitty mother I don’t know what to do.