Is this normal I need serious helllllllppppppp

Hi! My son is 2 years and 8 months old and he doesn’t listen to anything I say unless I would make a threat but now that doesn’t even work even if I’ve continuously followed through with the threat he will scream at me and purposely do things like this evening for example he kept on trying to throw a ball at my dinner and then succeeded and then he tipped my drink out on the floor. That’s just this evening it’s tipping me over the edge as I jus feel like nothing is fun and he’s stressing me out to the max. It seems like it’s non stop am I the only one dealing with this he will scream and not let meput him to bed or read him a story and call me rubbish feeling so deflated can anyone help or shed some light

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Biologically they can only listen 25% of the time so adjust expectations. Also they need longer to process (at least 10 seconds).

Get down to his level
Use his name
Simple instructions (few words max)
Tell him what to do not what not to ie instead of don't throw or no throwing say ball stays in your hand or ball goes on the floor.
I'd have asked and if he didn't stop I'd have just taken the ball away, tell him you aren't ready to play with it right now.

My boy just turned 3 and we've had this issue since a few months too. Sometimes he's great but other times he won't listen (especially when he's overtired). He kicks and hits and I get sooo angry! We're just trying to deal with it one day at a time! Some days I'm patient, some days I lose it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I feel horrible

As I was out of my bedroom, doing something outside of my home, I come back in to my bedroom and find my five month old has fell out of the chair onto the floor. I feel like the worst mom ever this is so bad I feel like I neglected

Anxiety

I feel like such a shit person, I had my baby last week after a fairly traumatic birth - I’m so in love with him but also I’ve been feeling really down and irritable since we’ve been home. My partners so supportive which makes me feel worse! We’ve had endless visitors and tomorrow my partners sisters coming down from a few hours away for the day she’s really full on at the best of times and obviously she’s going to be so excited to meet him etc and will love him - I’m just struggling with people having him etc at the moment and I feel terrible for it! I’m so overwhelmed I’m freaking out about them coming here and just taking over with him 😢 has anyone else been feeling like this? Am I being awful 🥺

Cradle cap??

Would you say this is cradle cap or something else? It came around 3 weeks ago when she was 3 months old. Never had cradle cap before this. It doesn’t seem to be getting any worse or bothering her. The first red mark is a birth mark it’s just the two scabby/red patches.

Breastfeeding

Is it possible to start breastfeeding when my baby is 8 weeks old?

When did your baby start to cry less?

Looking for some light at the end of the tunnel 😅

At what age did your babies fussiness lessen and they started to cry less frequently?

Baby is currently 5 weeks old and some days he is calm and happy with only short periods of fussiness, but other days he is very fussy. We’re pretty sure a lot of it is down to gas and overtiredness which we’re doing every thing we can to help with.

But in general, at what age did you notice a shift in general fussiness lessening?

Nesting??

I don’t understand it when people say ‘has nesting kicked in yet’ or think of it as a stage of pregnancy that’s caused by hormones or a symptom of end of pregnancy.

Surely it’s just a product of being on maternity leave and having more time on your hands plus the actual physical need to get stuff ready for the baby and knowing for the next few years you won’t have time to clean the home properly.

Anyone else agree?