Who was in the room while you delivered?

Me personally it was a must for me to have my husband and mom. But they allowed room for 1 more so I had my mother in law in there as well.

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My best friend, my mom and my partner. But then things went wrong and I had to have a cesarean so in the end it was just my partner.
Pre-Covid they didn't have any type of restrictions

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Just my husband and my doula. My MIL was allowed to visit about an hour or two after my son was born.

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This last time it was just my mom

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Only my husband. I wanted my mom as well but she decided she didn't want to be there.

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With my first it was my husband and mom. With my second just my husband. My mom had to watch my oldest lol

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It was a Covid so just husband but I wished my mom and mother in laws could have been too

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First birth was my mom and daughters dad.

For my son it was my husband, MIL (her first grandbaby), my daughter, mother, and my sister (doula). No shame after the first 😂

For my third it'll be husband, mom, daughter, and my son if they allow otherwise just my husband so mom can be with the kids. It's our last baby, after all.

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With my first only one person was allowed because of COVID restrictions so just hubby. Otherwise I would’ve had my mom as well.
Second time, just my husband because my mom was looking after our oldest.

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First was mom and husband, second was during covid so it was my sister while husband m stayed with our 1 y.o., third will only be husband

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I was put under for both my c sections so no one was allowed. I get it but it was a little scary being wheeled back there without my husband. Especially the first time when he was all gowned up and they wheeled me away too fast to say goodbye

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I had my assistance dog & my partner there the whole time, my mom visited briefly before it was declared I needed an emergency c section, then she took my assistance dog cause he couldn’t come into sterile environments (my mom brought him back to the postpartum unit the next morning (: )

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Husband and MIL

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By choice it was just my partner. Me and my mum are really close but she fusses too much, she would have driven me insane in labour.

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This is a sensitive topic hence incognito. My daughter has told me my husband (her step dad) was looking at her when she was showering. I’ve spoken to him about it and he said he walked in accidentally and that was it, but my daughter is claiming there’s more to it. She says he lingered in the bathroom and he was just there staring when she turned around, which isn’t how he described the whole thing, he made it seem like he just accidentally walked in and left. I don’t know who to believe or where to go from here. My daughter is 14, she got a history of mental problems. My husband and her don’t have much of a relationship, they’ve never seen eye to eye but he’s never done anything which would suggest he sees her as anything other than his step child. This all came out last week and my daughter is currently staying at my mother’s house while I work this out with my husband, but I’m still at a loss on what to do here am feel my daughter is expecting something extreme to happen and I’m just not sure this is worth my marriage as it could all just be a misunderstanding.

Please be kind in the comments. I’m looking for advice from parents who dealt with something similar, not judgements or unhelpful remarks.

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Just a rant because I HATE cleaning up food after dinner it makes me feel sick but I don’t want him to feel like there’s something wrong with textures but omgggg it’s horrible 🤢😵‍💫

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Is this controlling?

My husband got upset over a TikTok I sent about how mums still mentally carry their kids even when they’re away from them. Instead of telling me directly, he acted distant all morning, and I later found out he’d been venting to ChatGPT about how annoying he found the video. He’s also previously said he doesn’t think married women should be out late because he’s “old fashioned,” although later he’ll say he was joking and tell me to enjoy myself. Would you see this as controlling/invalidating behaviour, or am I overreacting? How would this dynamic make you feel?

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Is this weird?

You and your child spend the night at a friends house. Your friend has a child too. Her fiancé is on a trip and comes back today. We're spending another night and my friend has to work in the morning. Tomorrow it'll just me, my child, her finance, and their child until she gets home from work. 12 hour shift. Is that weird? She doesn't want me to go and says I can stay but I feel uncomfortable

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My husband yelled at me today. Literally let it all out and said that I’m dumb and need to get my shit together basically that I never do shit for the house and he does everything but that I resent him because he doesn’t have boob milk to give to our baby and I’m 5 years old because I freeze and shut down in confrontation and can’t make decisions on the spot.

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I told him a while back I was feeling a little resentment because I was the one doing all the feeds and wake ups at night for the past 2 years now with our baby this year and now toddler last year he tried helping for a few days then it went back to the same…
I’ve been a SAHM he just recently retired and is now home. He gets mad whenever I try and do anything and tells me to just take care of the kids. When he started staying home it was you take care of the baby and I will the toddler which always still left me with both since he did everything else because he doesn’t like how I do anything.
I feel so unheard and unseen and like everything I did tell him was just twisted. He always is right and everyone else is wrong and dumb I have to constantly hear him complaining when we go out about other drivers and people and he constantly tells my oldest she’s dumb which sometimes yes but she’s just a kid at the same time…
I know I need to work on freezing and shutting down and I am very indecisive I am not saying I’m perfect but am I at fault? I’m just really thinking about it all and idk what I’m doing anymore or what to think of any to ing I need an outside opinion….

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How much solids are we giving our babies??

How much solids are you giving your little one?

I feel there is so much conflicting information out there that I dont know if I am doing right from wrong...

My little one has 3 meals and a small snack a day and an average of 760ml of milk a day across 4 feeds.

Am I over feeding??? Should I give less solids and more milk?

I did a class with the baby academy and am following their guidance but NHS guidance is different....

I will be speaking to my GP about this on Tuesday as I have other things i need to discuss too but just wanted to get an idea from here if I am over feeding... 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

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