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Please be kind. I’m struggling with my daughter’s toys. Can I get some advice? These are all the toys she has (minus a few in the hallway but they are bigger electronic ones both my kids love). The toys in the basket closest to me are all baby toys they aren’t really touched anymore. The basket close to my todd...

So for the past month or so I’d completely lost myself, nothing made me happy and I was really struggling with taking care of my son. However as of recent my partners mum had him and i decided to take that time to join the gym and it made me feel great. However I won’t be able to get into a routine of it because my ...

my son started nursery 6 weeks ago (he’s just turned 2) and has been finding drop off hard. this morning he was quite upset and didn’t want to go but managed to get him in the nursery room and the staff member took over(he was still crying). when i collected him at 1, i was called in the office and told that they’...

I have a 16 month old and 2 month old. From July I won’t be having any help and I will be alone with the kids at home while my husband goes to work. I’m not in favour of sending my children to daycare. I’m just wondering how to go about it with two kids all alone? - when you’re putting one to nap, the other one i...

You guys I AM STRESSED. Every weekday after I get off work/get home, complete shiit show. I usually get home from work/the gym around 5:30/6pm. Husband does kid pickup and watches them while I rush to shower quick, then rush to make myself dinner/lunch for the next day, we trade off making food for my toddler, the...

Im no contact with MIL and SIL’s, husband still talks/ sees them here and there. We’re due another baby soon and I’m wondering what to do with regards to them meeting it? I don’t want to see them or be away from my baby, however hubby wants them to meet it 😩

So my 4yo and 7m are both always on the go and I haven’t slept a full night in over a year. I am at the end of my tether and keep feeling myself blow OTT at stuff or don’t have the capacity to play etc. headaches are so bad. Sleep deprivation is a killer. I want to go back to work p/t but what I earn would JUST cov...

Hi everyone. I am due to return to work next week on Tuesday and I'm very nervous about this. I will be working part-time three days a week. My mother will be taking care of the baby for those three days alone while my husband and I are at work. We decided on this arrangement as nursery fees are too expensive for u...

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Hi Ladies So long story short i used to help this old lady at the church by my house. She also runs a play group. Her granddaughter comes to the playgroup with her daughter also. When i last went to the playgroup i was speaking to the granddaughter about schools. I was asking what the one her daughter goes to is li...

Me and my child’s father split up 1 week after our son was born, I had to kick him out and end things, how do I stay strong or do I try for our family?

My in-laws are old school Africans who live by “you do whatever the elder says and you can’t question them”, we’re visiting my husband’s home country this summer, it’ll be mine & LO’s 1st time however I can only stay 1wk due to work commitments. I’ve shared this with both MIL & FIL as they were planning a party for ...

I’m just so angry right now. My boyfriend went through our savings on drinks with his friends, even though he knew how much I wanted to move into this cottage. We’ve been trying to save for two months, and every paycheck, he just blows it without a second thought about me or our baby. I’ve been the one buying every...

I’ve gone back to work and I’m really struggling with the thought that everyone is getting to raise my child except for me. Even my husband gets more time with him as he works from home. I fear that my baby will enjoy spending time with his grandmothers more than me bc that’s who he’s with all week. He lights up whe...

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Hi! Me and my husband we have a 6 months old baby girl, and for a while he is very distant, he is keeping him all the time busy , all the time he has something to do. But he is not spending his time with us like in the beginning… I’ve tried to spoke with him about this problem and he is just telling me that I am ove...

I had postnatal depression with my LB for the first year after he was born (he’s 2.5 now). But things had gotten easier and I’d actually started to enjoy parenting and tried to make sure that I filled our time with fun things to do so that we continued bonding. But recently, I feel like I’m going back into a down...

We have a caregiver watches our just over 2 yr old a couple days a week while I work from home (just upstairs). This morning, I went to go upstairs to work and Sarah asked for me wanting hugs and a kiss. The caregiver said no and pulled her into Sarah's room. I get she was thinking she was helping by letting me get ...

I was a sahm but have started working again part time but still can’t afford to live alone I have absolutely no family here. My s/o calls me names on the daily I get told to stfu, I’m a bitch, cunt, dumb ass, idiot. He tells me he hates my guts. He has said no man will want me because I’m a mom and it makes me worth...

I’m 27 weeks, and I feel like I can’t stand my husband, has anyone else felt this way? I feel like I’m so alone in this pregnancy. And when I talk to him about certain things and we agree on but when that situation comes up, every thing we just talk about goes right out the window about what we talked about and it’s...