Sugar?

Have you given sugar to your baby yet? We really want to avoid it until she’s 2, but is that too ambitious of us?? 😅😅

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I avoided with my first until he was 2 and he still has it as a treat not often, paved the way for my second and now my third I think. If you plan on having more children they obviously want what their siblings have so think it’s helped us x

I also have a 2 year old so my one year old has snacks like what my 2 year old has so yeh he’s had sugar

Sorry might be being stupid but how do you avoid it completely? My 1 year old has at least 2 pieces of fruit a day, he’ll have a yoghurt with breakfast etc. do you mean refined sugar? If that’s the case we avoid as much as possible and try for better options I.e home made snacks/ biscuits. Dark chocolate covered rice cakes instead of just a piece of milk chocolate however a little here and there I don’t feel is a negative thing x

She's had a bite of ice cream and tiny nibble of her first birthday cake but that's about it. We don't offer it or allow it really and are clear with other family members they can't give it to her.

Other than one jammie dodger my little one found we're still doing pretty good with no sugar 😅 obviously some things are high in natural sugars like fruit and he does have these. Also when he goes to my mum's it goes Pete tong as she buys him baby pouches and kiddylicious snack things

We are conscious of sugar content but we don't avoid it at all. All about a balance. And as above having older children doesnt help!

in our community

Does this plate look ok for lunch for a 13 month old…. Also ideas for lunches please

He won’t eat all of this but seems to like to have different bits to pick at. Any ideas for lunches would be good too as we run out of ideas all the time.

I find it wild people are offended that I rather give birth alone & have our son at home

I didn't realize how offensive it is to decide to give birth alone, knowing that your son is at home with their Dad/your husband... When I tell people this they are always like "I wouldn't be okay with that". I started getting rude with my responses telling them that it's a good thing it's not their son, baby or birth. I made this choice... Yes ME because having a new baby in the home is going to be stressful for our son, so instead of having him elsewhere with a stranger I would rather him be in the comfort of his own home with his Daddy. It doesn't bother me, I am excited and at peace with this. We don't do nursery, babysitters, childminders and such and my Mum/step Dad can't fly here on a whim... Too expensive for the stay, airfare, transport, food etc. I already worked out plans in case *knock on wood* something goes wrong and also there are plans for my husband to come in with our son. It is just wild to me the people that try to say "send your son here" "hire this person" like... No and no and no.

How would you feel?

It's my birthday today and my partner has taken the day off.

We are planning on going for dinner later and his sister having our two boys.

Whilst he was in the kitchen doing something his phone kept ringing (we are open with our phones and can go on then whenever). I said to him oh this woman has called you three times and left a message saying call her. I asked should I reply? And he said yeah tell her I'm on annual leave today. I also messaged his sister back about later.

He raised his voice at me after and said don't go down my phone. I said to him why do you have to have a go at me on my birthday? I did cry and just went into the garden.

Shortly after he asked if I was ok and I said no, why be funny on my birthday? He said whatever and I just said I don't want to go out later now and he said good, that's fine by me.

Would you be upset about this on your birthday? I'm fuming.

Advice ?

When is the right time to start applying for nursery’s ? I go back to work after a year off. Any advice?

Dirty butt from nursery

So on Thursday I picked my daughter up from nursery and came home and played a little. It was then time for her bath before bed and when I undressed her and took her nappy off I noticed she must've had a poopy diaper because her but crack wasn't completely clean. Now it wasn't disgustingly dirty but I'm expecting it to be clean y'know?

Now I know my daughter is in that stage where it's like wrestling an alligator to change her nappy but surely they should be used to this.

She's quite new to nursery and this was her second week. She poops daily and this was the only time she wasn't cleaned properly.

Do I let it go because it was a one time thing or do I bring it up to the nursery manager?

Swimming lessons

When did you start swimming lessons for your LO?