Living in a flat with little ones

For those of you who live in a flat, do you use the communal garden as your 'garden' and if so what's your set up like? Just need some inspo🥰

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I donr because my neighbours always make a mess.I don't feel comfortable sitting there so we don't use it at all.its rubish I hate it

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I live in a house, but share my garden with my landlord who lives next door. I just try to carve out a little space for my kids stuff at the bottom of the garden and leave the rest of the space for him. She has a little pool, and I’m thinking about getting her a little mud kitchen.

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When we did I didn’t but others did. Some of the flats you could access it from the back. We had a family of foxes out the back at one point. We lived opposite a council estate so there was a small playground nearby anyway.

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Hello everyone, i am after ftm to a 10month old baby boy. I am feeling very distant from my husband for a few months. Whenever i say i need us to spend time together , it just never happens. He always says he loves me irrespective. We are not physical anymore, there are no touches/hands holding etc. Is this how motherhood feels? Every night my body is needed by my baby so much and on the other hand I feel like my husband doesn’t.

Sorry for venting here! But just wanted to see anyone else is going through the same? What have you done to improve your relationship or go back to that loving relationship? it just feels i am only a mother now. Every relationship with my husband doesn’t exist. We both love each other but I don’t know how to bring the love/touch back.

Ps: during pregnancy we barely had sex as it was our first baby and we just didn’t knew if it was safe.

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Staff ratio at nursery

What is the legal requirement of staff to children ratio for a nursery with children aged 2-5 all in the same room?

Recently I was told where I was thinking of sending my son the ratio is 10:1 (children to staff)

I visited a room with 2-3 year olds and the ratio was 5:1 (staff to children)

How is it legal to then just add on another 5 because others are older you still have to care for the 2 year olds. Does the older children suddenly mean they can have 6 2 year olds and 4 4 year olds with 1 key worker?

Advise would be great thanks

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Again something I never thought my daughter would like

I gave her one because she kept staring at me eating. She's had 5 since. She's 10.5 months. My 3 yo refused to even eat the rice because it touched a chip.

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Baby's first birthday gift ideas?

This is my second baby, and we have no idea what to get him for his birthday next month.
We still have the big toys my first had, a trike, sandpit ect. We did have a slide and swing but our garden (we moved last year) isn't really suitable so they're at my parent's house instead.
I just don't know what to get him. I'm thinking maybe sensory bits? I need things that aren't going to take up too much space. Any suggestions? Anything your little ones have loved, or anything you wished you'd got them sooner?

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Is anyone else in this same space?

So I have a 6 month old and in a long distance marriage. My husband was only able to stay for a month after the baby was born before leaving for work. I have been raising my son alone and this has caused a lot of strain between me and my husband. He just doesn’t seem to understand how much effort it’s taking me to raise our baby. I’m so irritated I feel like divorcing him.

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Me my husband our 2 kids son 10 and daughter 7months live with my husbands parents because they asked us to we been here 2 years so the night before yesterday I forgot to call my husband to bring home dinner for his parents yesterday morning his mother went off on me said I’m horrible and wrong ect we didn’t speak yesterday well today my daughter has issue pooping she has issue like me sometimes she cries and requires assistance well that happend this morning I’m helping my daughter then trying to console her calm her down my mother in law comes in ask why she is screaming I explained why she proceeded to tell me I’m stupid the doctors are stupid that I’m gonna harm my daughter simply because she has issue pooping and I am doing everything the doctors say feeding schedule how much and how to assist her so the tonight she comes into our room to talk and me and her go at it again she she basically threatens me says if anything happens to her granddaughter it will happen to me that I’m a bad mom that I don’t know anything ect I told my husband I’m done we need to move he agrees they are so mean to me and my son and now this situation I’m done

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