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From the community

Im struggling

Im really struggling lately

I have a beautiful 1 year old little girl who brightens my day but I struggle everyday, I cant seem to keep on top of the house work, I worry about money as my partner has put himself into debt trying to get our house finished (its a fixer upper) we put so much energy and money into getting things finished for my daughters 1st birthday last month.

I dont work as i have bad issues and want to help financially but I dont know how to.

I rarely leave my house as I dont drive and I dont have anything close by, to get to places I'd have to get a bus which takes about 45-1 hour to get to anywhere 🙁

I have no friends, I thought i made some mummy friends but now i barely hesr from them except when I message first and I understand we all get busy with our babies and life. I just have no one to talk to, my partner works hard for us but when he comes home hes exhausted and most of the time just sits on his phone

I thought id be going to more baby groups and meeting up with other mums but there is literally nothing in my area, no coffee shops just houses and fields and i didnt think I would struggle this much.

We recently had to rehome our dog and that put a little bit of tension on our relationship as my partner misses our dog luckily we was able to rehome him to his mum so we still get to see him but my partner says almost everyday how he wants odin to come home but that cant happen.

I am getting to the point of I am not enjoying my life even though i have this beautiful little girl and want to start trying for another baby

I just dont know what to do anymore

Honey in stir fry

My baby is 10 months old tomorrow and was accidentally given honey soy flavoured pieces of steak in a stir fry. I know not to give honey under 1 but didn’t realise the flavour packaging was honey soy and I feel so guilty!

Should I be worried? What should I look out for?

Is it all women or just me?!!

This is a vent post so I figured I’d hide out- my family and I leave tomorrow for a Fourth of July vacation. One that I am very much looking forward too, as it’ll be our first as a family of three now! That being said we have pets and had to hire a sitter for them, because the sitters will be staying here I was mortified to think they would be staying in my house all dirty. So, here I am up at 2am, no closer to going to bed while my husband sleeps soundly. His reasoning? He doesn’t think they will care if the house is dirty- and while he could be right, my mind immediately goes to the comfortability of a clean house. Imagine staying at a strangers house and it’s disgusting?!!! You’d be scared to touch ANYTHING, I don’t want anyone to feel that way in my house!! I was okay with cleaning, I just wish he had the same mindset as mine. To recognize that it is a kind gesture to ensure the person taking care of your fur babies has a clean place to sleep. And if not that- at least he could care about just having a clean house and wanting to help!! My aunt says not everyone is like me and that I was raised by a single mother who was a maid during my childhood, so of course a clean house is important to me. Meanwhile, he had a stay at home mom who was able to find the time to clean up after her kids. Am I overreacting or just turning into my mother 😂

Is this a lot of help?

Sometimes I don’t know if I’m ungrateful and I do have a lot of help with baby or if I am mostly doing it on my own.

Just me during work week and my brother will come every other weekend to take her on a walk/play with her. My mother in law may come once every few weeks for a couple hours to watch her, or if we go round to her she’ll play with her or make us food.

My mum may watch her once every couple weeks for a few hours as well or she’ll come round to our house and help us do a tidy up or the laundry.

Need to ask explicitly for this so I try not to ask too much as feel burdensome, but still grateful they do it when they can. Otherwise just me and baby and husband

When did you potty train your child .

Please comment any other.

Potty training help?

My son is on his 3rd day of using the potty and he’s doing really well. Having regular wees and poos on the potty with a few accidents in between. We have noticed the accidents only happen when he’s got pants on, when he’s got nothing on his bottom half he’s amazing but as soon as he has pants or trousers on he doesn’t even register needing the toilet.
Has anyone experienced this before and how do we overcome it? I’m assuming it’s because he’s got a feeling something is on his bottom half so thinks it’s a nappy? Any help is appreciated.

Would you be upset?

Typically my husband gets up and leaves for work before me and the kids are awake but I’m pretty sure he usually leaves our house around 6:30. The place he works at is about a 35 minute drive and opens at 8 but he goes in a bit early and starts at 7:30. This morning me and the kids were up at 5, he left for work at 6 so he was there and hour before his early clock in time.

Idk I just have been feeling lately like he doesn’t actually enjoy spending time with us and it’s honestly been making me sad.

My nearly 1 year old still hasn’t really taken to food

She’s 1 in July and from around 6 to nearly 8 months old she just refused food. She eventually started accepting bits and now would eat all her weetabix in the morning, accept yoghurt but I can’t ever say I’ve seen her actually successfully eat much at lunch. For dinner she’d eat a few spoons of the food e.g pasta and minced meat it it won’t be much.
HVs has just been saying to expose her to food which I still am and she just refuses. But she turns one so soon so what do I do about formula as it gives her all her nutrition and she doesn’t eat enough?

University

Has anyone completed a masters whilst having a 1 year old? Or baby of similar age. Thinking of returning to uni, not sure if it’s a good idea…

How to put weight on a toddler

So I have a very active 16-17 month toddler, he eats 3 meals and snacks but he has twice been technically underweight by the baby nurse, he is in 9-12 months cause they fit him and anything older is way too big, so any tips or advice would be helpful, he is very active from morning till bedtime