Eating….

Is anyone else really struggling with their LOs eating habits/preferences? For the last 3 weeks our LO hasn’t touched a single dinner & only the occasional lunch. She’ll only have breakfast because it’s usually sweet or served with fruits. We provide safe options with each meal but currently no food is “safe”. We try to involve her in cooking & never force her to eat but it makes no difference. It’s gotten to the point where she asks what we’re having & decides before it’s ready that she won’t eat it. I’m literally sat by myself at the table having lunch nearly every day, she won’t even come sit down anymore. Help..??!?!?

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My son eats so poorly at home compared to at nursery. Safe foods and snacks he will inhale without issue, but they are not varied. But I'm also pregnant with number 2 and I do not have the mental capacity to handle the meltdown and fallout if I don't give him foods that he will eat. Like if he doesn't eat dinner, he will be up all hours of the night wanting to breastfeed. And frankly I just can't. So he gets the beige foods. One friend said to me "parent the child in front of you" and thst helped me a lot, because looking at the big picture - does it matter if he eats pasta in a veggie sauce 4 times a week and chicken nuggets every lunch time every weekend, if he's ultimately happy and not feeding off my own stress? Also knowing that they go through periods of needing more or less food, and that looking at their nutrition over a whole week rather than on a daily basis helps.

Perhaps try changing up where you sit for lunch. Put out a blanket and have a teddy bears picnic, serve a plate to each of her toys

(Sorry, I waffle) - she might be more interested if you make it "fun". Imagination is a wonderful tool for kids this age I find. The other day my husband kept telling our son that a piece of cereal out of his bowl was his favourite, and then he would put it down and our son ate it, giggling at the "cheekiness" of it. He ate a bowl full of Daddy's favourite cereal that way 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Just venting about an ignorant irresponsible husband!

I don’t know if it’s just me or if all husbands are like this, because my husband claims that all men are like him!

He doesn’t want to help with house chores, doesn’t do what’s asked of him, and only helps with the baby on his own terms and free time. Yet, whenever I get upset about something he does, he blames me for not asking for help. Honestly, I don’t even know if I want to ask for help anymore — it feels like such a mental load just to ask!

Usually, he’ll say things like, “Oh, I was about to iron my clothes,” or “I was about to eat,” or “I was about to sleep, I have an early day tomorrow.” You see where this goes…

Even when he does agree to help, he does things in a way that makes me want to just say, “Never mind, I’ll do it myself.” For example, if I ask him to sauté some veggies, he says, “Oh, we should try raw veggies sometime.” Or if I ask him to pass a fork, he says, “You should eat with your hands.”

At this point, I don’t even know if things will ever improve. Part of me feels like I might end up leaving, but I don’t want to take any extreme step right now because it would impact my baby.

Nursery costs

How much do you pay a month for nursery? And for how many hours?

Advice please - I need to approach work about asking for flexibility in school holidays

My little boy is due to start pre school in September and at the moment I work 3days a week but during the holidays I probably will only be able to get childcare for maybe 1 or 2 at the most.

How do I go about speaking to work, feel like im being such a pain asking?

8 Month food

Has anyone else baby refused taking formula?? My 8 month old has been refusing to take her milk for the past couple of weeks but will eat everything else and will even breastfed. HELPPPO

Emotional cheating?

So my husband had a longtime friend that he had said he was in love with at a time before we met, but she played around with him as a jerk and he ended their friendship right before we met. This was a year and a half ago. He had blocked her on everything but still had her number, though they were never in contact with each other. He told me she was in the past and didn’t have those feelings anymore. Well I just saw on his phone, about a month ago, he had sent her a random text of “asdf” as if he was checking to see if the messages still delivered. How should I feel about this?

What would you do?

I live with my parents and I have two kids (3 &1) my parents constantly complain about me. Talk shit to and about me saying that I could do more. My dad told me I was horrible and shitty mom for wanting to go to the navy and actually do something better for myself and my kids. Then my parents agreed to watch my kids when I go to boot camp and then the times coming up and they’re saying they don’t want to raise any kids anymore it’s too early things are moving too fast. But when I was home doing nothing smoking weed with them constantly needing their help it was never a problem but now that I’m trying to do better for myself I’m the problem. It hurts but I’m just at the point where I am willing to leave and go to the navy and not look back for months or years when it comes to my relationship with them. Am I being sensitive? There’s also a lot more that I didn’t add but just know I do financial help and give food stamps as well and whatever I do still is not good enough.