A couple of questions!

Hey everyone! Hope you’re all okay! Please feel free to message in response to this, you don’t have to comment!

We’ve just come away from our first family weekend in the caravan (we have a touring one). We all had the best time, the site was lovely and we had so much fun! But me and my partner have both said it would be lovely to find another family who are into caravanning or camping - whether it’s camping, caravans, motorhomes, campervans etc that we can meet up with and go on fun adventures with and with little ones for our daughter to play with! She loves children of all ages, she just wants some friends!
And as adults we want some friends to do games evenings or barbecues and dinners etc with. Are there any families interested in that kind of thing?

Also, we’re off to Wales for our daughter’s 4th birthday next month, are there any dog friendly, but also family friendly days out? I’ve seen things like the Gruffalo trail etc and we’ve got a day out idea in mind for the day itself, however we’d love some more ideas as we’re not 100% sure. 🥰

If there were a few people who enjoyed this kind of thing, if I created a group would anyone join it? 🙈

Picture from our recent trip so we don’t get lost, thank you for reading! 😊

in our community

Partner contribution

Feeling very frustrated with my partner at the moment but not sure if I’m being selfish. He has gone back to work but is fully remote so works from home everyday. He sleeps in the spare room and has done since the moment we brought baby home (he is now 8 weeks old). He takes the baby one night over the weekend and I go into the spare room for one undisturbed nights sleep. I get that he is working, so wouldn’t be doing any weekday night feeds, but even after work he doesn’t help very much. I ask him to help me and he’s fine when the baby isn’t fussing but as soon as he starts crying he hands him back to me stating he “cannot do this”. I feel like I get no break. He watches me run up and down the stairs, making bottles tidying the house and does nothing to help, not even a thank you. I feel like I want to go back to work sooner rather than later to even the playing field as he said that when I start working it would be 50/50. Just wondering how everyone else is doing things with a working partner?

Since I gave birth, I don’t see a reason to stay in my relationship.

Since I’ve had my baby I feel like having a partner is so unnecessary to me. Don’t get me wrong I love my partner and he is amazing but there’s so many things he does that frustrate me and I’m starting to realise that i don’t really need a man because he’s already fulfilled the role of giving me a child.

Today it hit me more than ever. So my partner has been up at 3am for work and he’s been working super hard and lifting all day so fair enough . Anyway he was too tired to drive me to the corner shop which is 5 minutes away. Now I don’t drive (I’m learning) so me and our 5 month old son had to walk half an hour to the shop and half an hour back to get food so I could cook dinner.

Baring in mind we live in the middle of nowhere so I had to walk down country lanes which is dangerous as cars zoom past and there is no footpath. It was also 6:30pm so it was getting dark and it was raining.

By the time we were walking back it was pitch black and the rain had turned into a storm and my umbrella broke and I was soaking wet trying to cover my baby who was attached to me via a baby carrier. I called up my man and told him to pick us up straight away as our baby was getting wet.

Now I’m sat here like why tf should I put up with this foolishness. I live with my auntie so I have a roof over my head, me and my family are close and they support me in every which way. I don’t rely on my partner financially so why am I in a relationship. I love him but that’s pretty much the only reason I’m with him when you look at it. My son is my whole heart and he’s my reason to live so why am I with someone who I have to clean up after and cook for. I mean everything that comes with having a boyfriend/husband I get from my friends and family, minus sex obviously but I have a vibrator for that lmao.

I’m just thinking that the Cons out weigh the pros here. I also solo parent 98% of the time and do all the feeds during the night so what’s the benefit here.

Marriage problems

Anyone having marriage problems since having your baby? I am struggling so much because I feel so alone in it. He’s not the same person I married. And I can’t talk about it with anyone.

Sausages

Has anyone given their little one sausages yet? Mines 9 month old and I want to try him with them but they are not recommended as high in salt. Has anyone found a good brand?

Normal feeling this way?

35+ 3 days… I’m so bloody fed up, some days are awful. My husband works long hours (gets home at 7/8pm) and I’m just so bored & tired.. especially the teatime to bedtime drag!

I’m looking after my LO every day, he goes to preschool 3 mornings.
I feel bad cos I feel like I’m useless, I’m so reliant on my hubby to do everything. I can’t do the housework properly, can’t play properly with my LO , cant walk the dog, can’t do bath time properly, there’s a million jobs that need to be done … I get painful Braxton-Hicks like every hour so need to stop and rest.

It feels like I’ve lost myself & I’m just this huge needy miserable person, being pregnant older is really taking it out of me 😩😩😩

Baby accidentally had cheese

(Baby is 8 months) not had any cows milk since 8 weeks.
I bought some spaghetti bolognese pouches and didn’t realise they had 2% cheddar cheese. I told my partner do not serve those as they contain cheese. Specifically told him before I went out to my appointment this afternoon. I come home and he’s feeding her the pouch! I was absolutely mortified to say the least as I literally had just mentioned it before I went out. She has had half a pouch. Has anyone else done this by accident??? It says online to look out for reactions but she’s due to go bed soon and she was having this at about 6:30pm.