Daycare?

What’s y’all opinions on child/ daycare? If and when did you send your little ones
If not then why?

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I will not be sending my child to daycare because I don’t want him to be sick every week. I also am not a fan of the child to teacher ratio because my child is very clingy. When I go back to work I plan on hiring a mommy’s helper or do a nanny share.

I personally have trust issues with a lot of things so I currently only have family watch my 7 month old

My son started daycare 2 weeks ago and he is 8.5 months. He loves it! And always comes home happy! Yes he does have a runny nose and a fever every couple of days but kids are resilient! And they say daycare is good for their social skills and help them adapt to social cues and other kids as they get older! He was also getting bored at home and sick of me! He needed something new! Hope this helps!

Me personally would not send my child to daycare bc I don’t trust them at all

Both my kids went to daycare since they were 10 weeks old. My oldest is almost 5 and just finished preschool and my youngest is almost 3. I just took the out of daycare so I could be a stay at home mom. I loved having them in daycare to be with kids their age. It really helped with their social skills.

in our community

My sister in law is giving her 4 month old COWS MILK and SOLIDS

This is her second baby. Her first is 3 years old and I believe she fed solids at 3 months (no comment 🙄) and is now severely iron deficient - not sure if the 2 are connected but it makes sense if they are since he wasn’t having the right amount of milk. He also has immunity, speech delay and overall delayed development - again, could be cuz of that partially, could be otherwise, idk

My point is - she knows full well that giving cows milk isn’t normal and was in such a rush to start solids for god knows what reason.

Opinions? The combination of cow milk and solids at 4 months is very alarming. And btw her baby isn’t advanced (as in don’t show early signs of readiness for food) nor was it advised to start solids so young.

MIL more of a hindrance than a help - what would you do?

My Mother in Law is a lovely woman with such a kind heart and loves her grandchildren so much.

I like her and don’t mind spending time with her (in small doses!).

She is SO loud and has no awareness (can’t read a room) and since having my youngest baby (I have 3 kids) she keeps on assisting on coming over to ‘help’ every Tuesday for the WHOLE day.

But she doesn’t help 🙈 her personality is choatic, she is clumsy and just adds to my stress.
She tries to help bless her but ends up making a mess, it is impossible to get my baby to sleep because she is so loud and doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal when she wakes the baby.

I have tried in subtle ways to put a stop to it but because I know her intentions are good, I don’t want to offend her.

What would you do?

Curious! SAHM, how much does hubby bring in?

Cause i wanna be sahm but idk if my husbands income is enough

Baby/toddler friendly ideas

Ladies, please could you give your simple easy recipes that are quick but are both baby and toddler friendly, like breakfast bars/sweet and savory muffins etc

Needs to be no honey and can be frozen 🙂

Thank you 😘😘

Just roommates

I was hoping that things would get better after a year of postpartum. Giving us a chance to get used to being first-time parents and to a big change in our lives. It just got worse. The emotional and physical distance got worse over time, and it just felt like we were friends. His excuse for not getting physical is that he's afraid that we’ll get pregnant again. Mind you, it took us 10 years to make our first one. We used to cuddle and hold hands all the time. Has anyone gotten out of this funk in their relationship? When did it stop feeling like we are roommates instead of being married couple.

Literally heartbroken

If you take the time to read this, then thank you, so much.

Tonight I have cried my eyes out for over an hour, thinking why do I deserve my children.

As a family we sat down and had a meal, that I had spent 2 hours preparing and cooking - our 7 month old is doing BLW, he was gagging, my husband will continuously interfere by trying to put water in his mouth, I spoke and said it’s best not to do that, it’s a natural thing they need to learn. He disagreed, literally did not want to listen.

I am struggling so badly at the moment with a toddler who turn 2 last month and a 7 month old, a SAHM who has worked all her life. I’m do get cross sometimes as my toddler will push me, my baby will cry whatever I try to do to help him. I have done EVERY night feed and wake up, even after an emergency CS. And tonight, my husband said that I don’t contribute to pay towards anything, I am horrible to my kids, I tell them no, I don’t go to work… i literally do 2 x £100 monthly food shops in a month, look after kids 24/7 with no break, been potty training, buy their clothes, the nappies, the general care and dr appts, the tantrums.

We have our arguments. But tonight hurt me. Like a blunt knife stabbing me over and over again. I feel like I shouldn’t have been given the opportunity to be a mum, especially after 2 miscarriages (with my husband so he knows). I just want to run away. But I love my kids too much. I try my hardest, I really do. I’ve always suffered with mental health, emotions, etc, he knows that. My kids are my life and tonight I looked at them and thought they just deserve so much better than me. 😭😭