Still not toilet trained

Is anyone else’s little still not toilet trained? He turned 4 at the beginning of this month and he’s just not getting it at all. He knows when he’s done a wee or poo but always tells us after not before.

We’ve tried absolutely everything, books, timers, training pants, no bottoms, rewards etc

He starts reception in just over a week and I am so stressed about it

I have 2 other children under 3 and I’m also 27 weeks pregnant with our 4th and final child and it’s just getting way too much to handle

I feel like everything else has clicked and runs smoothly like bedtime/naps/food etc he even had a completely smooth transition to no dummy’s at all and he sleeps fine all the way through at night in his own bed and everything

It’s literally just this one thing that seems to be impossible

in our community

Sleeping with my enemy

I just want to vent had to let this out ..
the man I sleep beside every night didn't tell me happy birthday didn't even get me a gift . Next day got me a cheap ass card with $100 in it ..
that same day he brought gifts to go to a baby shower , later that night he went to straight club ended up at motel paying for pussay .. for this men bday I gifted him 5 gifts . Lord knows how broken was , then got the audacity to come home and lay on My bed didn't even shower , EVENTUALLY I LET ANGER GET OVER ME AND PUT MY HANDS ON HIM . Asked him to leave my house he refusing , I'm not even comfortable in my own house.
I am 6mon Postpartum.

37 weeks pregnant and wondering if I’m being unreasonable 😔

My mum has been asking me for quite a while to come to Dublin from UK and stay with her around the time I have my baby. I was actually reluctant to come because I’ve always felt her house is far too cluttered. Every time I visit, I somehow end up trying to organise things, move things around and help her clean.

Eventually I agreed because she’s my mum, she really wanted me here, and I thought it would be nice to have her support when I have my baby.

Before coming, though, I made it clear that the bedroom I would be staying in needed to be properly decluttered and cleaned. I’m now 36 weeks pregnant and the room is still full of stacked suitcases, boxes, bags, clothes and stored belongings. It’s not just the bedroom either — there’s clutter throughout the house and areas that I don’t feel are properly clean.

I’ve tried explaining that I’m not expecting a show home. I just need a genuinely clean, hygienic and uncluttered environment to recover in and bring my newborn into. I want the stored belongings removed from the bedroom so the entire room can actually be deep cleaned underneath and behind everything, with clear floors and a safe, clean area for the baby’s cot.

What is upsetting me most is that she was the one who kept asking me to come and stay with her, despite me having concerns about the house from the beginning. I told her months ago what needed to be done, but whenever I bring it up now, I feel like she shuts me down or doesn’t understand how serious it is for me.
Unfortunately my lil brother is the more useless person as he doesn’t help at all! Even the stairs is dirty. Kitchen and living room cluttered!

What would you do? Would you insist that the room is completely cleared and deep cleaned before coming back with your newborn, or would you just arrange somewhere else to stay? And am I being unreasonable for being this upset about it?

Feeling lost

I’m 38 weeks and got broke up with yesterday, I feel utterly broken and I’ve already been struggling being really depressed throughout the entire pregnancy and now I am in the trenches and don’t know what to do. I have no friends and only my mum n dad and don’t drive, no access to do stuff by myself and I feel so utterly alone and don’t know what to do. He’s left me cause he says I’ve been verbally overwhelming and mean, I have been, I’ve been so sad and miserable and in so much pain I’ve got myself so frustrated with everyone and everything and now I feel I’ve ruined everything. I just need to vent and I need advice I don’t know what to do, I’m terrified and I have to do labour alone and the only person I want to hold me I can’t even cause he hates me. I am broken

Is it appropriate for a girl under 18 years old to go commando?

I'm up late thinking what would be appropriate. I choose to go commando when I was maybe 25 and I thought what if my daughter wants to go commando because one day she will notice I don't wear underwear? She's 9 now

Just a rant

I feel like a failure. For context I am divorced and just got legally married to my new husband. We just eloped at the courthouse for now and want a wedding next year so we have plenty of time to save up. Right now finances are hard because I have some debt and I'm trying to get out of it. I am the breadwinner in my home because I made a lot more money than my hubs so we decided to have him be a SAHD so that we didn't have to pay for childcare anymore which has helped a lot. But it's a lot of pressure being solely financially responsible for the whole family (2 kids so 4 of us) especially when I'm not in the financial place I want to be. When we get married next year it'll be my 2nd wedding but his first. And he is excited for it. We just came back from his cousin's wedding today and wow they went all out. It was beautiful. My first wedding was the same way. I had all the things. This was possible because I was in a great place financially at the time and also my parents gave me 10k to put towards that wedding. There was a family friend at my cousin in laws wedding today who kept talking to us about our wedding next year and how we should have this and that and how I shouldn't worry cause my parents will give me money for the wedding and next we have to buy a house (right now we rent), etc. And it made me want to cry. His family doesn't know I was once already married. I doubt my parents will be giving me anymore money towards a second wedding and I would never ask either sk this time it will all be out of my pocket. I want to give my husband and his family tye best wedding that he deserves cause this is his first one and since I'm the bride it's my family's responsibility to pay for most of everything but since this is my second wedding its not. It's mine. All mine. And it sucks and breaks my heart that I may not be able to give him the wedding he dreams of and the life he dreams of because of my stupid past mistakes. And making him a SAHD was all my idea so he's trusting me completely to take care of our family. I just want to please him and take care of everything but it's a lot of pressure. And I hope that I can somehow give us a beautiful wedding next year but keep it within a decent budget but still make him.and his family happy. I just hate the situation I'm in financially. I'm looking for encouraging words I guess.

Am I wrong?

So me and my bf got into a huge argument today. He is upset because im upset about him calling me a weak person and all together just being a disrespectful person towards me . So last weekend he decided to bring his other daughter (shes 6) to meet her new lil sis (our daughter) he told me that he was gonna help clean I didn’t have to do it all myself. I have an 10 yr old son as well so , during this convo he said I could go to his house to get rest while he watches the girls , my son decided to come home from by his grandmother cus he goes to school over there and she helps me out plus all his cousins over there as well . So I said no I’ll stay at my place cus its gonna be 3 kids and I could just sleep in the bed with my son while him and the girls take my room. He really didn’t do anything. He slept most of the time the first night I got 4hrs of sleep and then he came in the middle of the night while I was pumping and gave her to me . Settled her down brought her back in the room. The second night he just complained about how she keeps waking up . Now mind you I pumped and made bottles for him so all he had to do was grab warm and feed . So long story short , he told me today that I need to stop breastfeeding because our daughter isn’t getting enough milk . Now she was 7lbs 15oz at birth and now is 9lbs 10oz as of now . I make about 4 if im lucky 5oz per pump session. My daughter is 4 weeks old today. She drinks about 2.5-3oz of milk. He told me he was gonna come stay over the weekend again and help out . Came Friday, didn’t really help baby started getting fussy he handing her back to me saying “she doesn’t like me” 😒, leaves Saturday morning the whole day he was gone came back around 8:30pish brought pampers (cool) but only stayed for 15 mins left. Texted me around midnight asked if I was sleep I said no , he said he was on his way back , I like the message. Then texts back “If you want me to just wait til the morning I can do that as well” so I said why? Then replied back it doesn’t matter” cus at that point I saw no reason to be arguing if you said you were on the way 🤦🏾‍♀️. Then text back “ima just come in the morning i don’t want to disturb you.” So the today he calls around 1p and gets upset about me not interacting the way he wants me to with him . Tells me that when I get help from him I have an attitude. But in reality when he comes over I don’t speak I go in my room let him get the baby and lay down and relax. Answer whatever question he asks and thats it, no laughing no joking no nothing. Im tired and overwhelmed I wake up every 2-3hrs to keep a human alive while he’s at his house gets all his rest , goes to work and go straight home and relaxes and he wants to tell me im making this a bad experience for him . Im making it harder on myself because im breastfeeding and I need to stop . I need to give my baby formula. He’s had 4 other kids and he knows what to do . Just degrading me . So he comes get her and I slept for 2.5 hrs and he texted me saying to unlock the door, walks in and says “She doesn’t like the formula” I tried giving her 4 oz of it but she not drinking it. She just kept pushing the bottle out . Started breastfeeding her she’s feeding well . Now am I wrong for wanting to just get a couple hours of sleep? Or was all this just a “doing too much” thing that didn’t even needed to happen? Cus he got proven wrong and didn’t want to say anything like his pride was hurt about being wrong.