1 year old birthday

What is everyone doing for bubba’s 1st birthday? I need inspiration 🥴

My partner wanted to take her to London Aquarium for the day but I think she’s too young to understand/appreciate it 😂

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We’re taking ours to the aquarium for his birthday. I think it’s a prefect sensory experience for babies

We’re having a little party on the Sunday then taking her London Aquarium on the Monday (on her actual birthday).

We took her to one in Birmingham when she was about 6 months and she absolutely loved it

We're having a farm theme party the weekend before for all the party animals 😄 then likely either a farm or aquarium. We did chester aquarium last month and we must've walked through their viewing tunnel 10 times he loved it!

We had a family meal on Saturday and we're taking him to the sealife centre later in the week. It's his birthday today and we were planning to go sealife today but our LB is poorly so we've postponed. Think the sensory stimulation will be great for him at this age x

We are going to bubble planet in London on the day of her birthday and having a party for her at the weekend 🤍

We went to london aquarium months ago and she loved it, definitely worth going at this age. X

The aquarium is amazing for them at this age!! Sensory experience 🥰

We took my daughter to the aquarium for her birthday yesterday 💖 she loved it. So much to see, and look at. Different colours, lights, movement, she thought it was great!

Same!
We're going to the aquarium on my LO birthday then having a party on the weekend 'wild one' theme. 🥰

They love the aquarium, we took our boy when he was about 7 months to the sea zoo in wales and he loved watching all the fishes and in particular the jellyfish.

We want to take ours to the sealife in Birmingham (my anxiety couldn’t deal with central london and a young baby)

Aquarium on the day, firework display in the evening, soft play party hire the weekend with friends and Chester zoo

We are going to CBeebies land because she’s obsessed with in the night garden, wish we had booked the aquarium though I think that is perfect 1st birthday day xx

We're having a party in a hall saturday( yes i hate my mother in law enough to hire an entire hall so i can avoid her at all costs)
On his actual birthday we're going ro the zoo as he looooves giraffes

Yep same we are going to sealife centre then have a photographer in the evening coming to do a cake smash

@Ella theres a small aquariuam at alton towers 😀

Ive booked colchester zoo for her birthday and the weekend before having a little tea party for close family x

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I've finally done it

I have finally done it. I have finally become the trope, the stereotype.

I have become bitter, resentful, and very overwhelmed and overloaded. I am very unhappy and hit burnout. And I snapped at my husband last night. I work full-time, and work has been very busy so im working late a lot. Im also in grad school. I also have a toddler that has become VERY clingy with me. My husband works shorter days but commutes, so he usually gets home after me by an hour or more. When he gets home, he usually heads to the restroom for at least 30 mins when he gets home. And now my toddler doesnt want anything to do with him. So im doing all the toddler duties until bed. I dont get 5 mins to myself. Not for almost 2 years. I finally hit my wall. I have also, somehow, become my MILs medical ride service and she somehow has an appt every week, it seems?! Shes not sick!! My husband was complaining that he needs to change routine to fit in a workout sometimes, and I lost it. I have been BEGGING for 5 mins to myself for months. I have been telling him how im not good, im going to burn out for months. And between his attitude and him complaining (which really got me b/c he blames me for not being able to work out?! Saying I need help when he gets home so he just cant workout now) I just lost it completely. I told him how unfair my life has become and I have the entire mental and emotional load and it is just not fair. He got mad at me and said "hes trying" when hes literally not trying at all. What do I do?? No one is taking the load from me! And im done and dont know what to do now.
I do not like this version of me.

Is this clever or cruel?

My husband and i were talking and with social media and the internet in general being a terrifying dumpster fire, we are trying to figure out the best way to keep our son safe while still teaching him how to safely be online and moderation.

We landed on the idea of giving him the 90's kid treatment. A computer in the living room for us to keep an eye on what hes doing online, and once we feel hes mature enough to hang with friends without adult supervision he gets a flip phone. When we feel he is responsible enough and he earns and saves up the money for the physical phone, case, and screen cover, then we will be happy to take him to get a smart phone.

I thought this was air tight, but now my brother says its cruel to give a kid a flip phone, and besides he can just use his friends phones at school.

My husband and i remember a time before the internet, and we remember having complete access to something no one understood yet. We saw unspeakable things and are always battling with the urge to put the phone and social media down. I dont want that for my son, especially with his brain so vulnerable still.

AITA?

This isn't a major issue, just wondering if I'm being a bit of an asshole.

• I do shift work, 5 out of 7 days, full-time.
• My partner works from home (mostly, sometimes he goes into the office) M-F, full-time.

Anyway, whenever I have a day off during the week he gets in his feelings when I make myself food (breakfast and lunch) but not him. His reason is he's working, I'm not - Which is fair but I've asked him how many times on a weekend has he gotten up, on his day off and made me breakfast and a lunch to take with me to work? You guessed it, 0.

So basically, just because I'm at home I don't think the responsibility to feed him should automatically fall on me when he manages to feed himself just fine while I'm at work.

If your partners parent passes away

And you and that parent didn't get along are you still go to the funeral?

Not my situation!

Partner no longer wants baby #2

Before our son was born we originally both wanted minimum 2 kids but we were hoping for 3-4. My partner found the birth traumatic to watch and also struggled a lot with the newborn/baby stage. He no longer wants to have any more children and it’s completely breaking my heart. I need another baby. We’ve spoken about it a lot and the options. He said he wasn’t COMPLETELY closed off to it so I asked him to try and work through his feelings and reconsider his decision. He eventually said he definitely doesn’t want another. I know that I will always want one and my feelings will never change. Do we have to break up or does anyone know anything else I can do to help change his mind? Has anyone else’s partner said this and then changed their mind? I don’t want to break up because I adore him and our life together and I’d hate to split up our family for “selfish” reasons and make my son miss out on having both of us together but I just don’t know what to do

Nursery funding

My child turned 9 months last week. I applied for government funded hours nearly 2 months ago and so well within the required timeframe for the April term, however upon receiving my first invoice without the funding applied and having questioned this, I have now been informed that the stretched funding doesn’t start until 4th May.

Has anyone else been told it won’t start until May?

The government site states it should start from April 1st, and so I intentionally set my nursery start and return to work as the start of April for that reason, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to afford the nursery on my sole income without the funding