First passport timeline

If anyone has recently applied for a children’s first passport, how long did it take?

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We just received ours it was a bit of a pain took about 6 weeks. Took our photo as best you can with a 7 week old and completes application they accepted the cosign and everything but rejected the photo. We went and got it professionally done for £12 at tesco which i really recommend as you know it will be accepted. They then accepted the photo and rejected the cosign so we had to redo that once all was accepted took about 2 weeks to be delivered

Took us a week to get it from beginning to end of process

Thanks both!
I have potential to add travel for my daughter and husband on a work trip (they’ve told me late) and I’m trying to work out if it’s worth panic applying for the passport incase it arrives or just turning it down. I should really get the passport sorted anyway!

Ours has taken 3 weeks

Took around 2 weeks as the person we picked to sign it off took a few days to do it ☺️

Mine took about a month but would’ve been quicker as my co-signer took a few days and it took me a few days to go to the post office to send my documents so I reckon it could be about 2/3 weeks

in our community

Notning will fucking shut her up!!!

2 nights in a row my daughter isn't even crying it's just noise and it's constant! NOTHING fucking works anymore! I had 2 hours sleep last night and at the moment ive had around 3 hours I feel like I'm in the newborn trenches all over again and I honestly just want to kill my self because I can't be fucking arsed for this shit anymore!

My son was a dream from 2 months old. My daughter is just a completely different child! I can't I just can't do it.

It's fine for her Dad to fuck off downstairs to the couch while I'm just in bed trying to do anything I can to settle her which nothing works!! I don't wanna put her in bed with me because I don't want to get her into the habit of co sleeping, a bottle used to settle her and now it doesn't. Shushing doesn't work, patting her doesn't work.

She's 19 months

I want to die!!!!!!!

Should I reach out to my mom?

I'm a 30yo ftm with a 6 month old little boy. I'm loving motherhood it's by far the best thing I've done in life.

That being said there is this one piece I keep coming back to that just stings. My own mother is hardly talking to me. She lives 10min uo the road and has only met him about 3 or 4 times all because I initiated contact.

I have cptsd and childhood trauma from my mother. Now I have gone to therapy I don't really hold anger towards her for it anymore I believe at this point my trauma is mine to heal I don't need her to solve it for me. Without going into detail she suffers from severe depression and put a lot of it on me growing up. So understandably have a hot and cold relationship.

We were in a good spot until about 3/4 of the way through my pregnancy where she totally flipped the script and started arguing with me about super old stuff that in my opinion just didn't need dug up (especially while like 7months pregnant) anyway this continued postpartum and it just sings extra ya know. Like she waited until I was again at a vulnerable point in life to cause arguments and take advantage of my vulnerability.

I'm just sad, I miss the way she is when she's acting normal, but I've tried to reach out and every time it's an argument.

What should I do?

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I need help. My daughter is almost 2 months and I'm currently I'm doing everything by myself cause my bf can't be in the shelter with me. The staff doesn't help at all. I am diagnosed with bipolar and multiple personality disorder. I'm currently struggling to keep my cool with my daughter. But it's hard. I honestly don't know what to. I love my daughter with all my heart but I'm scared of myself cause I don't have my bf here to help me with our daughter. I'm currently sitting in the corner crying

Plz help

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I plan to stop breastfeeding by the time he is 2 but even if he was 3 or something, I really don't think its any of her business.

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