Activities with baby

I’m so tired of not finding enough things to do with my 10 month old baby boy. What do you guys do to keep them engaged. I’m not giving him any screen time actually he’s not interested either in watching tv.
Any ideas and tips what to do with them I’m so tired 😣

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I did do screen time. Only two shows… ms rachel for babies and ms.zoey speech therapist on youtube.
I took her to library for “bouncing babies” time. She like books. Any hands on toys. Take her to toy section of the store. Had her do sensory related activities… playing with ice cubes, beans in plastic zip lock, etc. Play nursery rhymes songs over n over helps their word development. Magnetic tiles are cool.

My kids could pay attention to about 20 minutes of reading at a time at that age. Peekaboo books were popular early on.

I’m not against screen time in small doses especially if I need to get something done or eat myself! But honestly baby groups save my sanity. Get me up and out. And keep him entertained.
Books, sensory toys, music instruments, big blocks.

I'd sit baby on his play mat in front of our back door (window panel) to watch birds or our chickens. Helps that we have cats so they kept his attention crawling around too 🥹 there are great no screen activities if you have the energy to set up. Anything from getting old toilet paper/paper towel rolls, baby maracas, using old Pringles cans filled with change or junk and taped down to shake.. depends on whether you want hands on/off activities. We did use a walker at that age for under an hour a day so he got to explore freely. I'd lay down and have him run cars on my back or crawl over me when I really needed a break without having to do much 🫣

Check local to you city parks and rec websites for indoor playgrounds or city events, also libraries for craft hour, reading hour, brick times, etc. ❤️

Can you take them out? I’d rather he crawl at the mall playground or library baby bounce session or friends’ house or park or in the pram watching the world go by while I push him around, the world keeps him stimulated plenty. I cannot be the type of mum who stays home and entertains their baby every wake minute, I’d rather be out pushing him in a pram (he naps for 2hrs in the pram as a newborn-3yrs) or watching him crawl at a playcentre or something

The library is always great, reading, play time, we would play monster and I would chase her or she would chase me. Put some water in a bucket or bowl and put some of their toys in it or just pretend to cook. Peekaboo, dance parties, singing song, reading, painting ( you can put it in a ziplock so it’s not as messy.

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My child’s father makes me feel so small. He barely does his part but somehow takes moments to make me feel like nothing. I don’t currently drive due to PTSD but I promise I want to start back and know I have to get past it. At this time, he drives our son to school and picks him up. Any chance he gets he tells everyone it’s been so hard on him and tells his bosses and his bosses always respond like “what type of mother doesnt drive.” …. Just always applauding him and saying they feel bad for him. Y’all I do EVERYTHING. Taking our son to school is all he does. Minimum help with finances, doesn’t do anything around the house, nothing. Just plays video games, watches tv, drinks and naps. At this point. I’m ready to be done. Today was the last straw with him making me feel small over driving. I’m gonna get myself together and never look back. He better hope I don’t drive the hell away from him for good.

Am I overthinking?

Yesterday evening when getting my 20 months old boy ready for bath, I noticed 2 significant bruises on his lower back towards the bottom. He's been at the nursery all day and didn't have those bruises in the morning before dropping him off.

So of course some alarms start ringing in my head. I took pictures and sent them to the nursery asking what happened and how come I wasn't informed of the incident.

Their response was that nobody saw anything, little one was absolutely fine all day, didn't cry or anything so they're unsure how the bruising occurred. He was involved in normal activities like singing reading playing in the sand etc but nothing particularly stands out.

Tbh he had some small bruises in the past that again had gone unnoticed and their responses were the same.

Now I get that children can sustain accidental injuries and don't want to assume anything bad had happened, but I can't help it, my brain inevitably thinks that.

What would you do in this situation? Would you let it go? Would you escalate it further to ofsted maybe? Or am I simply overreacting?

P.s. little one is happy at the nursery and no longer cries at drop offs or pick ups.

What should I do?

So my partner brother and family are flying back to Poland for Christmas

My partner is wanting to go too for Christmas and he has said he’s going with or without me (I have no annual leave left and I don’t want to be away from my son for a week)

We went to Poland this summer and there was about 10 people in one house my son stopped eating and just cried the whole time we was there & I have raised these concerns and all I get is ‘I’m going with or without you’

I’m prepared to end my 9 year relationship with him if he does take him away when I have raised my concerns and said no he’s not going

I have said he can go before or after Christmas I just don’t want him going during Christmas my fav time of year and he knows I do all the bdays and Christmas plan it all out do all the presents get everything ready

It will honestly break me if he takes him

His mum and dad was over while my son was 4 weeks old……phones multiple times couldn’t get hold of him & he was gone for about 5/6hrs when he said he would he 1 - yes he’s apologised for this but he still did it

I don’t know what I can do🥲

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