Nursery is costing me a fortune
I don’t even mean the fees. The last 3 weeks she’s had two lunch boxes broken and now her coat that I got last weekend is stained with paint. I get their clothes get ruined hence why I usually get bundles second hand from Vinted but i don’t know why she was painting in her coat when she has a puddle suit for outside 😩 I’m just ranting because I know kids get dirty but I can’t keep affording to keep replacing everything 😩
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Honestly, it drives me mad the state my little boy comes home in. I feel bad because feel like he's always dressed like a scruff but i refuse to send him in nice clothes because they always get ruined. His bag is wrecked but i dont want to get him a new 1 just for it to get wrecked as well. He has also come home with paint all over his coat, which makes no sense because they dont paint outside, maybe they hang coats near where they paint?. 🙄 I have just accepted that nothing makes sense at nursery. 😂
They will probably only put her puddle suit on if its actually raining or lots of puddles. Can you send in a soft lunch box so it doesn't get broken?
What size is she? Maybe its worth just having a nursery coat (thats what we have and it stays there apart from the main school holidays when I bring it home to wash)
Yeh the stained coat will now be her nursery coat 😅. Usually Thursdays are puddle suits for forest school but that’s spotless so I have no idea why she didn’t wear it last week’s photos she was actually wearing someone else’s too 😆.
So the first lunch box the zip broke and the second I got a plastic Bluey one thinking that might be better but the clip handles been snapped off 😅.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not expecting her to come out pristine hence why she goes in second hand basic clothes and I’m glad she has fun but I’m broke broke 😅
Just send her looking like a scruff on nursery days 😅then keep nice clothes for days off 🤪
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Nursery is costing me a fortune
I don’t even mean the fees. The last 3 weeks she’s had two lunch boxes broken and now her coat that I got last weekend is stained with paint. I get their clothes get ruined hence why I usually get bundles second hand from Vinted but i don’t know why she was painting in her coat when she has a puddle suit for outside 😩 I’m just ranting because I know kids get dirty but I can’t keep affording to keep replacing everything 😩
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Military school
Does anyone else think military school is for lazy parents? I have a family member who has a son who is a few weeks away from being 6 years old. He has a hard time listening and following directions. Many people, myself included and the pediatrician, thinks he's autistic. The pediatrician has recommended multiple times to get him tested but the family member won't. Which is wild to me because we both work in the same place. With mentally disabled adults. But she keeps complaining about how he doesnt listen and doesnt dollow directions and threatens him all the time about being sent away to military school. She'll tell me while the boy is in ear shot or not that shes done with him and cant take it anymore and is really considering military school. To me I feel like she doesnt want to put in the effort to parent him the way he needs. And it feels like she wants the easy way out. It truly hurts my heart because I have 2 boys and I've helped raise this boy since he was born. What are your thoughts?
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So overwhelmed and exhausted
I just need to vent because I am so overwhelmed right now. My boyfriend got hurt at work two weeks ago today, and they suspect he has a hernia. Because it’s a workers’ comp claim, everything has been moving SO slowly. Today we went in because we were supposed to finally get the results of his CT scan and find out whether he needs surgery. Only to get there and find out that the imaging place never sent the results to his doctor. They literally sent us home and told us to come back tomorrow and hopefully the results would be there by then. We called the imaging place ourselves, and they basically said, “Oh yeah, we forgot to send them.”
Meanwhile, my boyfriend is on a five-pound lifting restriction. He can’t even pick up our daughter because she’s 25 pounds, and lifting anything over five pounds could make his injury significantly worse. So for the last two weeks, I’ve essentially been solo parenting. I know he wants to help, and I know he’s frustrated that he can’t, but that doesn’t make it any less exhausting.
On top of that, he works incredibly long hours in emergency services. Some nights he doesn’t get home until 3 a.m., and he’s back out the door by 7:30 in the morning. I feel like I’m doing everything, all day, every day, and I barely have a chance to catch my breath.
And because apparently that’s not enough, I’m also dealing with a whole phone situation. My brother and I are switching phone providers, but he lives in a completely different state. Somehow, my new phone ended up being shipped to his house, and he accidentally activated my phone instead of his. So now my current phone doesn’t even have service, and I’m waiting for my new phone to be shipped to me. Which means I can’t even call doctor’s offices or the imaging center to try to get things moving with my boyfriend’s claim. All I can do is FaceTime or FaceTime audio when I’m connected to Wi-Fi.
Every time I leave the house, I have to text my boyfriend beforehand and tell him where I’m going, how long I’ll be gone, and that he won’t be able to reach me because I won’t have service. Something as simple as running to the grocery store has become another thing I have to plan around. It’s just so frustrating feeling like I can’t even take care of the things I need to take care of because of one more stupid thing going wrong.
I’m just so tired. My arms hurt, my body hurts, and mentally I’m running on empty. My daughter is 25 pounds (10 months), and as much as I love holding her and being there for her, carrying a 25-pound baby around all day is no joke. I feel so alone in this right now, and I think the hardest part is that I don’t really have a choice but to keep pushing through because someone still needs me.
I love my family more than anything, but I’m struggling right now. I don’t need everything to be perfect. I just wish something would go smoothly for once. I wish I could get a break, have someone take care of me for a little bit, and not feel like absolutely everything is falling on my shoulders. I’m exhausted, overwhelmed, and honestly just needed somewhere to let it all out. I literally almost started crying at the grocery store because I’m just so burnt out
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Feeling low
I feel like I shouldn’t post in this group anymore as my baby was due 27th October but is yet to make an appearance. But it is also the group I have been posting in the whole time so feels familiar to me.
Woke up at 4 o’clock this morning to do my third pee of the night. Can’t go back to sleep because it’s another night of me not going in to labour.
I know, it’s normal for first babies to be late but I am just getting really tired now. I’m doing everything I can to keep this as natural as a start to labour as I can.
I have had two unsuccessful sweeps, I have been doing all the things to make me happy. When I see people out and about and I tell them I’m overdue they’re surprised by how positive I am.
But this morning I just don’t feel positive, I feel disappointed and let down.
My partner is so supportive, he knows I don’t want to be induced so when I said this morning I wanted to be, he says to wait one more day. I know he is right but I’m still doubting anything is going to happen any time soon.
So I’m just here, awake, not wanting to try to sleep because all I do is think.
Anyone else in the same boat or has been previously? Was there anything natural that people have done to spur on labour? Sorry for the negative post so early in the morning.
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Trying to get out of house with baby
My baby is almost 10 weeks and we have taken him out only for his appointment and 4-5 times on stroller walk, i wish to take him out daily but simply can't, either he sleeps in weird times or there is something to be done at home and the day just ends like that and it simply feels like on loop. At the end of the day i feel so bad about myself about the life it has become for me. I never thought motherhood could be so hard and so lonely.
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Going back to School
Any moms here that went to school with a newborn? How was that experience? Is it manageable?
I plan on enrolling when baby is 3 months. I won’t be going back to work when baby arrives. I plan on taking 8 units to start.
I know it will be difficult but I do have a support system that will help with baby when I attend class and do course work.
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