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Breakfast portion help

So we rotate breakfast options every morning to keep it exciting. My boy is such a good eater we are very lucky. However I'm confused about how much I should be giving him because no matter how much I give him he screams when it's gone. Surely 8 tablespoons of porridge is too much?!

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No patience

Anybody else’s patience just completely gone out of the window. I am constant loosing my rag with my toddler the past 2 days. I think it’s mainly pregnancy hormones and knowing I’m going to give birth next week but also my partner (the children’s dad) left us last week so that doesn’t help. I am constantly telling h...

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Helping my husband give better sex lol

I’m so embarrassed to be asking this, but…. Sooo me and my husband got married 2 years ago. We have a 1 year old daughter. We were celibate before (although we did some naughty things, but just not penetration). We only have sex like 2x a month right now. I know my husband isn’t “getting it” anywhere else, bu...

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Purée Meats?

Are you guys giving your baby the whole jar once a day? Or just half

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Neighbor

How to deal with neighbor that wife and husband only speaks and greet with my husband but never talks to me . It be complete quietness when they see me

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No time

So the topic of “me time” came up again tonight and my husband says that we have a toddler now, there is no “me time” or “us time” not until she’s older…. I told him that I don’t view it that way and if we wanted time we can make it. (I used the example of me staying up 1-2 hour after I put baby to bed is my “me tim...

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Motherhood is killing me

I have been home every single day with my son for 18months now. He has exclusively breastfed for 18 months. I get NO help from friends family or his dad. It’s just us 24/7/365. My mother has watched him 3xs, twice for a few hours (one was my bday, another was when my cat died) and once overnight when I had an at hom...

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Preemies

Hi, I’ve been so emotional my baby had a Nicu appointment yesterday, no mom wants to hear bad news. I was so excited and pumped that my baby is finally doing all the milestones, but the nicu ppl told me otherwise that is scored very low from last time he was there. I felt like I fail as mother 😭. Me in my eyes he…

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Stressing Out

I been so stressed dealing with my 1 year old and my 4 month old and also my 6 year old all 3 of them sick and I feel like I’m losing my mind is so much and it sucks i have no one to help my husband works and it hard and I am already mentally exhausted and dealing with PPD on top of that I feel like I just wanna giv...

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First day supplies for starting daycare.

Hello mama’s, My LO is starting daycare next month (She will be 18 mo old and in toddler program) and I have to give her a sleeping bag or nap mat blanket. Can you recommend what is working best for your LO at the daycare? The daycare told me to buy from Amazon and when I googled “blankets for toddler daycare cot”…...

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Childcare help/benefits - UK

I’m looking at being unemployed at the end of this year and wondering what, if any, help me and my partner would be entitled to with childcare. Our LO is in nursery 3 days a week from Jan and we’d budgeted with the 15hrs & tax free in mind but now with me being out of work then we lose this and it’ll double our nu...

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Nanny contract

I’m looking to hire a nanny for 2 days a week. Had anyone else made their own contract? She has sent me a sample contract which states 5.6 weeks holiday. I’m wondering if I can work on a self employed contract where I don’t pay holiday or sick days. I’m not sure the name of contract but wondered if anyone else h...

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Potty Training

am i a complete failure for not even trying to potty train yet? 🫠 we encourage it but he has no interest. I know it’ll take work but I read a lot of articles saying closer to 3 years can be easier on them and a higher success rate? maybe i’m just in denial. I work fulltime and it’s super hard to only be home weekends

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Toddler refusing to eat

At my wits end. My 2 year old refuses to eat food we give him (besides his favorites). We can’t get him to try anything. Or even eat foods he has eaten before. My husband says we need to stop giving in, and if he doesn’t eat at least a bite of what we are offering he doesn’t get anything else. Even if that means he ...

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Solids

Anyone else anxious to start their baby on solids? I have so much anxiety and I feel so overwhelmed with the thought of it.

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toddler proof snack and pouch holders

my daughter has figured out how to take the tops off or undo all holders and toppers. i have tried the munchkin snack catcher, the 360 rotation bowl, the squeeze proof pouch holder, and the food pouch topper. any ideas for things that are actually toddler proof?

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When your son doesn’t want Daddy time

Any other stay at home Moms have their partner come home and your baby just doesn’t want daddy? I currently am listening to my child scream and cry in the background because my partner wants to console and spend time with his son, which I get, but it’s hard to hear them cry it out like this when you just want to sav...

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Crayon out of the wall

Does anyone know how I get crayon out of the wall? My daughter drew with crayons all over our walls

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I am such a jealous grinch

It's the 3rd time my husband deleted all his social media and all he has left is whatsapp for his own screen time. Again the reason is his "distraction" so I asked him about what is distracting him, he hesitated so I felt it must be also the women he sees on shorts and instagram. He said, yes, partially. I don't kn...

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Teething tips & tricks

My son is 4.5 months old and is teething and I don’t know what to do the only teether he likes looks like a banana and he puts it in his mouth and yanks it out which results in his gums being cut open then he doesn’t want to eat currently the past 2 days I’ve been giving him Tylenol to help twice a day I try to stre...

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