first words/ ish words

Hi i was just curious where my little guy is at compared to others his age, he was born july 12 2025 so he’s 10.5 months, he’s toddling pretty quickly and his pediatrician said since a lot of his focus is in motor skills he might be slightly behind in areas like speech, he says a couple things but most aren’t understandable to everyone the only clear thing he says is dad and dada with clear intention sometimes but he also just toddles around going da da da

words we think he’s trying to say are
“mama”
“baba/ bottle”
“dog” / “cat” (he’s been raised around 4 dogs and 4 cats)
“cup”
“yeah” and “eh eh”

in our community

Sleeping in heatwave

When is everyone putting their babies to bed. I only ask because our bedroom egg thermometer is currently saying 30.3 degrees which is obviously far too hot for bub. We are camped out in the lounge with all the doors/windows open with fans on. I am also finding it difficult to get her to sleep because she is so used to being swaddled. Any tips or ideas?

Safe sleep

My baby’s room is currently 31 degrees I’ve had the blinds and curtains and window shut all day and only just opened the window to get some air in I have now put a fan in that blowing around the room it points onto her for a few seconds and blows straight back off on a low setting is this safe? Panicking 😩🤣

Gro Egg reliability???

It’s showing as 25 degrees in our bedroom again tonight, but our 5 week old won’t sleep in just a nappy so we put him in a vest and he was still upset so we added a sleep suit and he managed to sleep. But based on all the advice we’ve seen online this is the wrong amount of layers for the room temp. Beginning to think the gro egg isn’t accurate as we have been sleeping comfortably in thin pjs and a duvet with a fan by the bedroom door and window open (fan not near baby and doesn’t blow on him). I’m so stressed about it, is anyone else feeling the same?!

Is so selfish to continue to have kids when you’re barely scraping by financially and mentally

My friend, just announced her pregnancy and she just had her third baby 8 months ago?! And she already has a one and two year old. She constantly vents about how things are so tight financially but “makes things work”. These kids end up suffering 😢I’m usually such a supportive friend, but this…. I can’t support. It’s low key making me not want to be friends with her. Coming from someone who is two and done, I recognized my limit and drew a line and overall I’m just tired of hearing her rant about how things are so tight financially and always venting about her marital problems and then continues to add to her stress. Reality has to set in some time!? Should I cut her off?

Would you have an issue with this or not?

Purchasing shoes off Vinted marked as NEW without tags. Specifically purchased because of the “NEW”.
Item arrives, rubber white soles are clearly dirty and show signs of wear (one can only assume this as the dirt is on the EXACT same spots on both soles, brownish orange colour). The inside of shoe and top of shoe are in good condition and look clean. Smells fine. Would you have an issue with this?

Please don’t comment on simply not having issue with buying or using used items as that is not the point of this.

Bedroom 29 degrees

Our 5 month old and 2 1/2 year olds rooms are sitting at 29 degrees…
I’ve tried everything to cool down.
I’ve taken toddlers duvet away and baby will be in just a nappy tonight. Is that okay? I’m panicking about how hot our rooms are