Body image

I’m 10 weeks PP and I’m having the worst time with my body. I used to be pretty small, and I’m 10 pounds away from my pre-baby weight. Everyone keeps telling me i just had a baby and to give myself some grace. But i can’t help but feeling like a slob when i look at myself in the mirror. I want to cry. I don’t feel like myself, i don’t feel pretty anymore. I hate talking about this too because i sound so superficial. I know recovery is harder with a c-section. I’m just ready to bounce back. I want to feel like me again.

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Newborn stage coming to an end

Feeling super emotional that I no longer have a newborn baby😭 I feel like he already looks so much more grown up.
Looking forward to the next chapter🩵 any advice for the next few months?

Talking

We have a 17 month old. At his clinic they said by 18 months he should have at least 20 words. He doesn’t. Everything is either daddy or he points and moans to what he wants. Should I be worried?

12h under 12 weeks & breastfeeding

Hey! My baby is 6 weeks and breastfeeding. She eats every 2h during the day and 3h at night (I feed her whenever she asks so we don’t really have a schedule). Naturally we’re not sleeping much due to her feeding schedule and her really bad reflux so we were recommended to try the 12hours under 12 weeks book/technique. Has anyone done this and do you think its compatible with a breastfed baby?

Your kid pees in the bath, wyd…

My oldest saves a pee for the bath every time he gets in and he baths was his sibling. What would you do?

Bed time

I appreciate everyone seems to have the opposite problem…but I cannot get my baby’s bedtime any later. He goes down for the night around 615-630. Which in theory sounds great, but we have to hold him for ages until we can transfer him to the Moses. And also means his first and only long stretch of sleep ends at 930-1030 😩 just as I’m going to bed usually. I just cannot get him to stay up any later!
I’ve tried waking him after 30 mins to treat it like a nap but he’s so grumpy and won’t have any of it, he just wants to be asleep. I’ve tried moving his morning wake time and naps along later. I’ve tried getting his last nap to last to at least 5, but it’s not happening.
I’m hoping that shifting his bedtime later will mean he’s less wakeful in the later part of the night.
Anyone any ideas?

What do I do???

My 3yo is starting nursery next month so we've been trying to get him to understand about private parts and appropriate/safe touch.

We're trying to teach him that private parts are penis/vagina, bum, mouth and chest.

We have a 3 month old baby girl and he's realised she "doesn't have a willy" so we've been explaining that she has a vagina and he understands/doesn't care 😅

But today when I was changing his sister I was explaining again about private parts (we've only spoken about it 2 or 3 times in the past week or so) and he just started being really cheeky, saying he was going to touch her and me and then started hitting my bum 🙄

I've explained that if he wants he can ask to hold hands, or for a hug etc, it's okay to touch arms and legs but he just doesn't care about what he *can* do he just wants to do what he *cant* do and it's started to get me worried.

I'm not making a big deal of it, I've just been explaining it matter of fact like anything else and not too often, and usually he listens.. I'm also aware it's better to explain what he can do but with this subject isn't it important to say explicitly what he cannot touch?? Idk can anyone help?