Community Posts, Tips & Support on Toddler & Child

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...

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…

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...

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”…...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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?

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...

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

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...

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...

My daughter is 2.5 years old. She's my first. We started potty training on a whim yesterday because she asked to wear the undies I bought her for whenever we decided to start. So I brought the potty chair downstairs, and she had a "nakey bum" day yesterday 😂. She did amazing! Only 2 accidents in the morning when…

So my 11 month old did her first trial at a daycare and I sobbed the whole two hours we were apart. When I picked her up she had been crying so much that she was doing that hiccup-y crying. It took her a long time to calm down. She keeps doing that shakey post-cry inhale even in her sleep. Everyone at the daycare ...

I am starting to question my parenting skills or if I am a good mother My 5yr old daughter has always shown difficult behavior since she was 2 yrs old. It’s been one thing to another. She will do anything for attention especially negative attention. Both at home and in school. She is extremely hyperactive, can’t...

We don’t live near family and I feel my partner puts a lot of pressure on me to have us visit his family or they come here to stay on the weekend. One of his parents lives 3 hours away who keep insisting we come stay with them, we would only be able to stay one night with partners work so a 6 hour round trip with a ...

Does anyone else’s 6-7 month old baby absolutely hate baby food? My LO is definitely interested in our food but when I try to give her purees or solids (that are safe for her) she has no interest and will even gag… I never thought a baby could gag so dramatically you would think I was feeding her horrific food. She ...

My 6 month old twins seem to be spitting out any type of purees food etc. i did have some luck with some wosits type of snack even then they were just licking them and it was just melting. They dont seem to be intrested in any sort of foods. Is this normal, my 22 month old was very quick i had no issues with him in ...