What would you do in this situation?

I was at soft play with my 2 year old yesterday. Bear in mind I’m 20 weeks pregnant so chasing her around is becoming a mission.

We climbed up to the top level and there was a massive slide with 4 lanes, my little girl got there first before I manoeuvred myself through the floor gap. I see a kid at the bottom of the slide just walking around, he looked around 18 months old, no parent in sight.

Well before I could tell my girl to wait, she slides down and as she’s sliding he walks directly in front of the end of her lane (initially he wasn’t in front of her lane but the one over) and she takes him out completely. He fell backwards and hit his head on the plastic.

I climb back down and grab my girl and we go to make sure he’s okay. His mum picked him up and he was sobbing (understandably). I told the mum that my girl took him out accidentally and I apologised.

I don’t know if that was the right thing to do or not, the woman didn’t seem too impressed with me and the whole situation was really awkward. If she had watched her child in the first place it wouldn’t have happened 😩

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Things to do mat leave

I have 2 weeks of mat leave left and I feel like I’m wasting my time by just mooching round the shops. What things have you done that I can try? I live in north west just out of Liverpool. I do a lot at the weekends when my husbands home, but not much on my own. Spam me with ideas! Weather not great, so walks etc not ideal.

When did you start introducing a Potty?

When did you potty train your little ones?

My little boy has been in a rush to do everything from he arrived in this world and he's very nearly found his feet at 10 months. He is getting quite predictable as to when he'll poop and it's quite obvious when he's trying, so I have been debating buying a potty and starting to just set him on it at those times to get him used to the idea. Just to clarify I'm not expecting him to be fully potty trained at this point, I just thought it might be good to start introducing even for number 2's but curious to hear what ages you all started or any tips?

Am i overreacting?

Ftm to my son who is 6 weeks old, my partner has just gone back to working nights meaning I have to do them on my own, they’ve mostly been ok a few tough nights but we’ve got through it, my family have always been really supportive but recently they’ve been offering to ‘come and take him in the morning to go on a walk so I can have a break’ and I appreciate the offer but it’s making me feel really uncomfortable, I’m loving motherhood and don’t feel like I need to have a break I love being with my son. I’d be happy for them to come here and see him and watch him if I needed to sleep if I’d had an awful night but I feel uncomfortable with them taking him out without me especially as he’s ebf, I just don’t know what to say I feel bad turning down the help and support

Little girl being off with my daughter

So there's another mum i always chat with and our daughters have always got on (4 years old)
But the past week at drop off the other little girl has been abit off with my daughter, my daughter will run over all happy to see her and the other girl has just given her a moody look and ran off!
My daughter is very she and other os very loud so it doesn't really make sense.
Im not sure what to do as my little girl looked sad this morning

Overwhelmed

Does anyone know the feeling when your baby keeps fussing and won't be quiet, youv given them everything and ticked them off but don't know what they want.

My son wasnt crying but just babbling and screaching, and being a lil fussy, he was really loud it was about 6.30am and I just wanted to scream he was just sooo loud and frustrating ,

I walked away and came back after 5 but it all continued .
Then finally 2 hours he has now feel asleep on me.

I just feel like this was too overstimulated I feel touched out ,drainned ,angry and upset and the day has only just begun.

Lunch ideas for 7 month old

Hi everyone, I’m struggling to come up with lunches to feed my 7 month old baby, preferably things which can be easily prepared/made in advance. I would appreciate some recipes or ideas, thank you in advance x