What kind of thing are you feeding your babies for weaning?
I have Arfid and my husband does shift work so there’s no real “meals” that we have routinely so I’m struggling to think of what to give her for lunches. Breakfast I give her yoghurts and toast but she doesn’t seem interested in the toast most of the time
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I used the range of pouches / jars etc at the moment - alot of what we make i couldnt give him yet & i like being able to try him with different things that i maybe wouldnt be cooking! X

breakfasts i do oats with fruits, yoghurts, eggs, peanut butter toast strips and other random bits.
lunch i do more cold foods like tuna, cucumber, avocado, even some of the pouches to get more flavours in there.
dinners i do what we have but blended and blander: sweet potato mash, shredded chicken, mushed down veggies, blended bolognese, even teeny bits of beef burger! just have fun with random stuff and see if they like it xx

I generally give what we are having
Breakfast - toast, yoghurt and fruit, pancakes, porridge, weetabix, cereal.
Lunch - pasta, toast (beans, avocado, egg etc), fruit, cucumber, tomato, yoghurt, rice cakes, pizza twist or pinwheels.
Dinner - varies but for example; curry and rice, sweet potato, lasagna, fish, roast dinner etc. He enjoys his vegetables so will have some of them too. We don’t add salt and always use low salt alternatives so we can give him what we have.
Im deep in the resentment phase towards my husband who’s always busy with work and gone from the home nearly 14 hrs a day. When he is home, he isn’t present, on his phone or out smoking. and still needs to be told what I need help with rather than just figuring it out for himself. Our baby is 9 months old and I feel like a single parent rather than having him parenting alongside me. He’s never home for bedtime or morning routines and im exhausted from the physical and mental load of caring for the baby plus all the home care things like meals, laundry, cleaning, etc. I go back to work in Feb and I just don’t understand how the entire house won’t fall apart without me home 24/7.
Anyone been through something similar? This mama is exhausted, resentful and honestly, a little lonely.
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My boyfriend and I have a complicated history. After he cheated on me with his child’s mother, he’s been actively trying to change his ways, and I do recognize the effort he’s making. However, there’s still a lot of damage in our relationship that we’re working through.
We have a 5-month-old daughter together, and he also has a 5-year-old son. Recently, he started including our daughter and me in the morning routine of taking his son to school. We’ve only been doing this for about a week, but his son constantly makes comments about not understanding why my daughter and I have to come along every day.
I’ve told my boyfriend that I find these comments rude, but he thinks I’m overreacting and doesn’t see anything wrong with them.
What makes this situation more complicated is that I’ve primarily been responsible for caring for his son for an entire year. A lot of that responsibility has been placed on me rather than his son spending more time with his own mother. I’ve helped with his daily care and taken on responsibilities that I don’t necessarily feel should fall entirely on me. I’ve always taken him to school for an entire year.
I also notice that when his son goes places with his uncle and cousin, he doesn’t make similar comments about them not needing to come along. So I can’t help but wonder why he repeatedly makes these comments specifically about me and his baby sister.
I understand that a 5-year-old may want one-on-one time with his father, and I don’t have an issue with them spending time together. But I do think there’s a difference between wanting individual attention and repeatedly making comments that can make other family members feel unwelcome.
Am I overreacting by finding this rude? How would you handle this situation? Should his father be addressing these comments and teaching him how to express himself differently, or am I expecting too much from a 5-year-old?
I’m not trying to compete with a child for his father’s attention. I just don’t want to establish a family dynamic where my daughter and I are made to feel like outsiders, especially when I’ve spent so much time helping care for his son. When I tell my boyfriend that I would like to just focus on my daughter and let his mother focus on their son, he gets upset with me and says I don’t care about his son..
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I've got 2 children who are 2.5 and 11 months. I'm unemployed, a stay at home parent and on UC. I would really like to do a Level 3 Healthcare and Midwifery access to higher education course. Full time, which is 3 days a week.
My oldest daughter already does 2 days a week, which we will be moving up to 3 days once we get the funding. Also my youngest daughter will be going to nursery in January.
My question is, does anyone know if I would qualify for childcare funding from UC if I'm in full time education? Or do I need to work? My partner works full time. I've also asked the college about grants which they do help with childcare, but it doesn't say to what extent

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So my grandmother in law raised my husband like a mother so we see her as a mother in law so for context her son has passed away a while ago and now I have my son we are living with them because it's cheap and easy so she wants my son to call her grandmama and Everytime me and my husband bring the baby around her she tells us not asks us to hold him and when one of us tells her no she asks the other one then when he's crying she says oh it's because he wants his grandmama but my husband would call her nani then she has a wallpaper of her dead son that she wants to change to my son and she calls my son her little baby or her little pumpkin (we put him in a pumpkin for Halloween) she won't let anyone who isnt us hold him for long before she tells them to give him to her and now I don't know what to do because I feel like if I talk to her I'm overreacting but I don't wanna cause conflict
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I've seen people say that it's impossible to potty train at night until the child basically grows out of it around age 7. I've also seen people say that their child was fully potty-trained by the age of 3. I don't want to rush nighttime potty training if it doesn't make sense to, but I also don't want to delay it if it doesn't make sense to. I know it probably depends on the child individually, but I'm not sure. We haven't started any kind of potty training, but we are thinking about it. What worked best for your child?
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What kind of thing are you feeding your babies for weaning?
I have Arfid and my husband does shift work so there’s no real “meals” that we have routinely so I’m struggling to think of what to give her for lunches. Breakfast I give her yoghurts and toast but she doesn’t seem interested in the toast most of the time
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