I would like to have someone to vent to who won’t ghost me.

A lot on my mind rn spinning; have a 1 year old and a lot of things going on with her father as he is refusing to coparent and his family is awful. I hope to not be judged but always end up being critiqued.

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How often are people bathing their babies?

My LO is 3.5months old, we bath her once a week, maybe twice, unless its been really hot and shes been sweating, or she need it from spitting up on herself

Just curious how often others are bathing their babies

I feel like a awful mother

It might be weird but long story short while cleaning by accident a plastic basket ended up on the cooker and start smoking the rooms. (Studio flat so smoke everywhere)
I got rid of the smoke pretty quickly and it wasn’t bad enough to trigger the fire alarm but I have been crying for the past 3 hours because the baby was in the house and I feel awful of how can I make such a stupid mistake. What if anything worse would’ve happened to the baby. What if the smoke affected him in any way. (He s alert,feeding and totally fine so far) but I can’t settle the feeling that I’m a terrible mother and I put him in danger.
My partner is keep trying to reassure me that it was just an accident and could’ve happened to anyone but I just start crying over and over again…

What do I do

So my baby is screaming non stop uncontrollably and will only sleep sat up he’s on 5oz of milk at 3 weeks old and keeps been sick but is also looking for more milk I really don’t know what to do xx

What's something you never thought you'd have to explain to your child?

For example, "Don't lick the dog!" Or anything along that line of 'I really had to explain that?! 😅'

Bedtime blues

My daughter is 10 months old and every bed time I get filled with dread. She goes to sleep and without fail will wake 45mins-1 hour. It can then take up to an hour to transition her into her cot, yesterday I resettled her 5 times in 90 minutes. I’m exhausted. I’ve tried different sleeping sacks, making sure she’s not too hot/cold, earlier bed times, later bed times. It gets to a point I’m exhausted, go to bed at 9pm and when she wakes again (usually around 10) I just cosleep. I feel like I’m failing. Help.

Waking up

Does anyone wake their baby up at the 2 hour mark like is recommended and get them to stay up? I do if it’s he’s due for a feed and the 2 overlap, cause he won’t wake up himself if he’s on me. But he was asleep for 2.5 hours as we were out and as we got home I woke him for a feed as he was due and he went straight back to sleep on it. I’m of the mindset of he clearly needs the sleep but don’t want to create a rod for my own back as he’s usually really good in the night (hope I haven’t jinxed myself by saying that)