Do you hate going out in public with your toddler?

I don't enjoy going out in public with my toddler anymore. He will be 3 in a few months. He use to be good in public until he reached a certain age. Now whenever i take him with me to the store he would start screaming while I am paying for our stuff or he starts screaming randomly while we are still shopping. Anytime that he screams at a store the people around us stare at us. Some have even either asked us to leave or they ask me why he is screaming like that. After we moved to a different city the people were more understading. But the people at my old city seemed to really have no patience for kids.

I have also had times where I would let another family member sit in the car with my child while I shop in the store. Then he would get upset as soon as I leave the car and the other family member will tell me to hurry up because he can't handle hearing him screaming either.

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Advice

How did you get your baby to stop waking for milk in the night

Do you swear around your kids?

Not swear at, but occasionally use swear words in front of your children?

My daughter stomped her foot at a crow today and said “I’m so pissed off!” because the crow was trying to steal some of her picnic. She’s 3.

My head was in my hands. It’s my fault because when things go wrong, I sometimes say that, and she’s obviously picked up on it.

Feeling so defeated

I’m a first time mum to my beautiful 14 month old boy. I prayed for my son for so long. We struggled to conceive, so when I fell pregnant it was a shock, but we were filled with so much gratitude. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

But recently I find myself being super snappy. I catch myself telling him off when he does something he shouldn’t, and sometimes I feel so overwhelmed and touched out that it takes me to a really dark place, and that scares me. I worry he will grow up resenting me for those moments.

I suffered terribly with postpartum depression, and sometimes I worry I am being pulled back into something like that again.

My husband is emotionally useless, if I am honest. When I share how I am feeling, I am often made to feel ashamed or told to just “suck it up,” and it leaves me feeling very alone.

I feel like the worst mum sometimes, so unworthy. My son deserves a mother with endless patience, softness and presence, and I worry I am not always giving him that.

God blessed me with the most amazing bundle of joy, and I love him more than anything. But lately I keep asking myself, why do I feel like I am lacking the very things motherhood is supposed to come with so naturally?

Weaning at 6 months

I need to rant. I saw a new GP regarding many things, one of them being my child has CMPA. she told me that at 6 months he should be having THREE meals a day. Like surely not? Yes he has his milk on prescription but it’s an absolute minefield with weaning and food containing milk 🙄 I feel really disheartened but also annoyed, implying that the sooner he’s weaned the better in terms of prescribing his milk… just feel so frustrated 😣

Bedtime/sleeping in the same room

How do people manage to put their baby to bed when guidance is they have to be in the same room as you for the first 6 months?

My little boy is a contact napper and tends to fall asleep around 7.30/8pm on my partner after a feed, leaving him trapped for the rest of the evening. He will generally transfer to his next to me when we go up to bed around 10pm with no issues but now that the baby is 3 months old, my partner and I feel like even though we love the cuddles, we should be implementing a bit more of a routine and would like an hour or two in the evenings where we can just chill together. The baby absolutely will not be put down in the lounge and just sleep - how do other people do it?

What would you do?

Your 9 month old falls asleep by you putting her on her side - she normally wakes up because she rolls onto her back - tonight she’s rolled onto her front and stayed asleep! She’s not actively rolling both ways BUT she can push herself up into a crawling position. Would you….