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From the community

Recent discussions

Am I right to feel disrespected?

We dont give our 3 year old refind sugar, have always had a strong stance on it that our family are well aware of. Our Daughter went to a show yesterday with her grandparents. On the way home my MIL rang my husband, who was at work at the time and let him know that she gave our daughter a small share of her ice cream because she was crying for it (apparently)
My daughter has since told me she actually had her own ice cream cone and ate the whole thing and wasn't asked to share at all

I feel as though the grandparents over stepped, they should have respected our rules as parents, my husband thinks its fine because "they told us" - I think they lied about the real situation and it also bothers me they went through my husband rather than having a conversation with me.
We already have a rocky relationship with them due to over stepped boundaries in the past.
Thoughts?

Advice/toy recommendations?

Please don’t judge🙏 - I’m desperately seeking some advice or toy recommendations for my 6.5 month old Velcro baby. She simply won’t play on her own or give me a simple second to myself and I’m honestly going completely mad. I barely get a second to myself to brush my teeth and go to the loo without her whining and crying. I am utterly, utterly desperate and feel completely burnt out but I have no other choice but to keep going as I don’t have any support at all (no family, I feel desperately alone) and husband is hands-off. I’d really appreciate any advice on how I can get through this. Thank you🙏

Nappy for an hour

Hi I'm day 3 of potty training and my little boy has rugby for half an hour today. Do you think it's a set back if I put a nappy on him for an hour so he doesn't need to change during his class.

Am I tripping?

So we all know it’s the 4th of July. It’s my son’s first fourth. My baby dad is in New York. Granted it’s also his birthday but am I tripping for thinking he should wanna spend it with his son? Like doesn’t matter where but it feels like it wasn’t a thought in his mind to spend hot with our son. He hasn’t helped at all except for buying a few clothes but that was months ago, that was around Christmas time, my son is 9 months now. I’ve asked my bd for money for some wipes and to split the cost of a new car seat as my son grew out of his newborn one and was no longer safe in it. I guess he didn’t have the money cuz I didn’t get anything but he has the money for New York. Ugh, tell me, am I tripping for thinking he coulda spend today or even just part of it with our son?

Asking for advice

My little boy turned 1 on Thursday 🥹 we had 3 days of celebrations and today we are just staying home so will be trialing his new routine.
I just wanted to ask for any advice really if this new routine looks ok, he’s not a massive eater so it does worry me that he won’t be eating enough food and now we will be massively cutting his milk intake it worries me he just won’t be getting enough food or milk.

7am wake up and 240ml bottle
(Mixing formula and cows milk until fully onto cows milk)

10am breakfast
This will be something like Weetabix and fruit or overnight oats and fruit or toast and fruit and water
No bottle

2pm dinner
Something savoury so like pasta, meat, vegetables, with water
No bottle

6pm bedtime bottle
300ml (mixing formula and cows milk until fully on cows milk)

Usually he would have a bottle at 10am and a bottle at 2pm but I’m hoping to drop those 2 bottles so that he just has a wake up bottle and a bed time bottle and I’m hoping he will eat enough at 10am and 2pm.

Never realised how overwhelming feeding babies was going to be 😩

YouTube kids

Anyone else just fed up with YouTube kids. I have blocked so many channels that are just filled with brain rot and ai generating shit but it feels like these accounts are like a Hydra! You block one and three more just pop up. It feels never ending!! I have set the setting to the youngest option and these stupid videos still show up. I have banned YouTube kids all together now but there is some good educational stuff on there that my son enjoys. This is just a little rant more than anything 😅 just needed to moan a little bit😂

Loss of appetite!!

Hey everyone I’m currently 17 weeks just wondering if anyone has been struggling with food as much as me!!
I have always been mainly veggie and not the best fan of meat substitutes.
I’m finding it soooo hard to come up with meal ideas so any suggestions are really appreciated and and tips to not hate food I miss enjoying it 🤣🤣

Struggling with potty training 😩

Please telling me all your tips and tricks she’s 2.5 and terrified of the toilet 🤦🏽‍♀️😩 won’t tell me if she needs to wee I ask constantly (probably annoying her tbf) I’ve been trying on and off for a few months but this time I’ve been determined but a week in and we still haven’t had a wee on the potty or toilet 😭 hard seeing others say how easy they found it probably the hardest thing I’ve found.

Husband is leaving

My husband is leaving for training for 2 months. He’s in the military and he was on paternity leave but they won’t let him skip this trip so he has to go. I’m depressed about it. He leaves early tomorrow morning. We spent little to no time together tonight.. and I thought he wanna have sex before bed seeing as we won’t be together for 2 months but he just went to bed. And I can’t help but cry cause I didn’t get that intimacy before bed… or during the whole day. My birthday is in 3 days and he won’t be here. I don’t have a job or a vehicle so I can’t leave this house to do anything.. i just feel so depressed. He didn’t even wanna cuddle 😢

What are we doing about fireworks?

I’ve had to hold my little one until they stopped because they were very close by and he kept waking up!

Partner says i’m psychotic and selfish

We have had two under two, youngest is now 15 months and still wakes around 10 times a night. This weekend im taking the kids on a caravan holiday wirh family, my partner gets to have 3 days child free. My partner doesn’t have to do anything with our 15m old as she co sleeps and breastfeeds so every evening im up and down the stairs re settling her around 5 times whilst he gets the evening to himself, then he gets a full nights sleep co sleeping with our toddler. He also only sees the kids for two hours in the evening after work and multiple times a week I go and see family all day so he only sees them for half an hour in the evening meaning he has an extra long evening to do anyrhing he needs for himself. I am completely unable to meet my basic needs and take care of myself and im completely sleep deprived. He says I’m psychotic for asking him to finish off our flooring this weekend and do some jobs around the house, and that he should be able to make plans and enjoy himself whilst we’re away. I don’t care about him making plans, I’ve just asked if he can also do a few house jobs. I’m trying to explain to him how do you not understand that what you’re saying is selfish, you get every evening to yourself, and I’m always taking the kids out so he gets days to himself and breathers. Meanwhile I get 0 break, no time to take care of myself, I haven’t met up with a friend for over 3 years! How can he not see me in this situation and understand how hard it is for me and how he’s better off here? What are your thoughts? Who’s being out of order here?

Potty Training a Boy

Hello, so we have had a potty for ages and my now 22 month old has peed and pooped on it before during the getting familiar with the potty time. Now it’s time to fully potty him, he won’t sit and stay on the potty unless I gently keep him there like I tickle his feet or he plays with my hair or hugs me. Most of the time he doesn’t do anything. He usually just gets up and pees elsewhere instead. (My living room carpet stinks of wee and I can’t get rid of the smell) lol. Yesterday he did a wee on the potty which he got soooo much praise for and I was bouncing off the walls for a while. Haha.

So my question is does anyone have any tips and tricks for a crazy wild little boy that could help?

Thanks

Anyone elses little one doing this?

My son 19 months when through a period of hating baths now he loves them again.
Now he is going through a phase of not eating much of anything. Before he wasnt fussy at all he'd eat anything in front of him now he eats barely his three meals im trying to give him plain crackers, fruit anything that he loves but even that is a no.. he keeps saying no..even food we are having he says no. He is drinking plenty of water and milk but that isnt filling enough..
Advice?

Teething help!!

I’m absolutely out of ideas at this point, nothing works on my sons mouth. I’ll be holding him while he sleeps and he’ll still start crying in his sleep because his mouth hurts so much. He’s been teething for so long that the orajel has basically stopped working. What can I try? I just want to be able to put him down again at night.

Primary leavers

How does everyone feel about their kids going to high school? I’m a nervous wreck lol

Relate?

I love being a stay at home momma. And I’m so grateful but sometimes I feel like I need a break. Not even a long one. Maybe 30 minutes. But I feel so guilty asking for one. When I know my boyfriend works all day. And he wants to decompress from work and relax.

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