Any help will be appreciated - 11 month old sleep

I’m a first time mum to a little boy called Theo, he is about to turn 11 months old in a couple of days and it’s taking me several hours to get him to sleep at night time.

He has of late only wanted one nap a day (sometimes 2 depending on his sleep the night before) he shows every sign of being tired but every time I think he’s drifted off, he wakes straight back up. I do everything to make it a relaxing, peaceful and chilled environment ready for him to go to sleep.

He has bedtime baths, bedtime bottles, dark room, literally everything you can think of and it can take up to 3 hours until he’s actually fully asleep so that I can then go to sleep. 😩

Has anyone got any advice?

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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?

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?

Small glass of wine judged by the MIL

Went out for a meal last night with my in laws. She didn’t hear me order my drink but I ordered a small glass of white wine with lemonade spritz. When it arrived at the table she asked whose it was to which I said it’s mine, she said “well you can’t have that” (I’m exclusively breastfeeding). I corrected her and said I could, I had bought a bottle of my expressed milk with us for my daughter to have over dinner and by the time we would get home I would be more than ok. She repeated her same statement to which I said I could again and does she really think I would put my daughter in any danger to which she backed down!
For context I can count how many alcoholic drinks I have had since having our 6 month old daughter on one hand although granted this is the first glass of wine I have had in my MIL company. My MIL didn’t breastfeed, I just didn’t appreciate her comments. Did I over react?

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?

Baby fell off the sofa

Please don’t judge!!

Hey my 6 month old rolled off the sofa today. I was not home and my partner was with him.
He seems fine. Eating and drinking as normal and has been smiling and even laughing.

My partner called 111 and they said to just monitor him.

He does seem a tint bit more grizzly this evening but he has missed a nap today as we wanted to keep him up to make sure he was ok.

Any advice, should i of taken him to hospital?

My partner is in absolute bits over it and burst into tears on the phone when he told me. He feels really guilty and I feel so sorry for him as its only the second time he has been left alone with him.

Advise please mamas Im so stressed about him sleeping tonight incase there is something wrong.

5 weeks old

Anyone else’s 5 week old crying most of the time they’re awake? Last few days has just been eat, cry, sleep, repeat 😫