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IGNORANT FIL🤬

Today was my anatomy scan. My bf sends a cute 3D pic to his family GC In the pic the baby is holding her arms up to the face like in a fighting stance (my bf is a boxer soo this was soo funny). His mom replies normal response. FIL replies “look like some long arms” 🤣 we like here he go being weird. like how the…

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When is a reasonable time to ask your partner to stop drinking?

I am 36+5 today and we are going to a BBQ. I told my partner I don’t mind him having 1 or 2 beers but I’m not comfortable with my drinking all night or moving on to spirits. He has drank throughout my whole pregnancy and had his fun. I know that his family and friends will pressure him in to having a drink. Am I bei...

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Am I being silly?

So Friday evenings are my evenings - my other half takes baby so I can go out if I want to or whatever I want to do (can’t thank him enough for it!) but since like the first few times I’ve been out and seen my Mum I don’t know what’s gotten in to me, I suddenly will always cancel my plans last minute… Tonight I wa...

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Nail polish

So this is going to sound stupid but I've just been with my sister in law she saw I had gellish on my feet and told me im not aloud to wear it when giving birth. I'm under midwife so thought it would be fine but she was adiment I wasn't aloud to wear any sort of nail vanish. I suppose though if I have it on they ...

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Rant

Me and my MIL get along for the most part but there's some things she does/says that I don't like/agree with but before having my baby I was able to ignore it but since baby boy has been born i feel like the things she does/says piss me off even more now especially when she says stuff about my son. Lately she has be...

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Do I have a right to be pissed off ?

So I have this mum friend who lives near me. we used to hang out a lot until she split up with her baby daddy and started getting dates every week with different guys and started dating a guy. I didn't really hear from her unless she had an argument with the new guy or they broke up. They eventually broke up due to ...

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Weaning recipes

Anyone got any recipes their babies have enjoyed ? I’m mostly doing jars but shocked how they stain their face !

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Thoughts

What’s everyone’s thoughts on baby being in the car seat slightly longer than 2 hours if I’m sat in the back watching her?

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Annoyed

Hi so I'm getting annoyed and thought I'd ask your opinion. My husband keeps moaning at me and making my life hard. I do all the childcare for my 8 month old, and I have since she was born. I have had a couple hours respite in this whole time. I do every night shift, every nappy change, I sterilise and make bottles....

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Marriage

I have been with my boyfriend for 4 years . He asked me today if he would to ask me to marry him would I say yes ? I said no . I told him that I wanted to get married when our relationship was healthier & we were where we wanted to be in life & our families can sit together in a room & be happy for us . Side story...

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Car seat

So I have just put my nearly 7m old in the bigger size car seat I have the joie 360 spin, all is good she loves it but when she falls asleep her head always falls forward... Any way of stopping this?

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Am I the bad guy?

I’m 30 weeks pregnant today! (Yay) But for my whole pregnancy just about I have had issues with my brother in law and his family coming over almost daily (they are our neighbors) and it’s not that I hate them, they’re just very loud and disrespectful and they let their children (3 and almost 2) break our stuff and d...

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Join 360 car seat

Was just wondering if anyone else is having problems with the Joie 360 car seat? From birth we had another car seat from a different brand and it was grand but he has outgrown it so we have upgraded to the joie as we heard amazing reviews online. When we have him strapped into the car seat the straps are not super ...

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Tooth eruption or no?

Is this what it looks like what a tooth is about to erupt ? My son has been teething the past week possibly longer, noticed his gums swollen yesterday. Is the eruption due to happen? Thoughts to all the mums & babies during the teething stage. It. Is. Hard.

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Who else has had a rough life?

I guess I'm just posting this to get it off my chest.... Growing up, was difficult for me. I was the third child for my mom and fourth child for my dad. My dad smoked weed (which I don't find wrong) and was an alcoholic. He would drink every night until he was plastered. Sometimes he would start earlier in the day,...

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Date night - am I right to be mad?

My partner surprised me by booking a dinner out this Friday night. We recently had a baby and had to take her as we have no family that will ever babysit, but it was nice he tried to make time for us still. So at the end of the meal i thought I’d test him as I knew he’d expect me to pay my half - He has ALWAYS done...

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