Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Bub is 1 year. I’m starting work next week-but paid all bills and groceries, except mortgage while on leave Hubs helps with bub but mostly when asked. He has to ask 10000 questions if I ask him to prep bubs dinner since we try to rotate who makes our dinner, but even if he makes ours, I have to make bubs most of th...

I’m really not sure if I’m suffering with ppa or ppd I’m constantly worried about LO he’s 9 weeks and I’m always checking if he is breathing im absolutely terrified of anything he does that’s new for example Recently he’s twitching his leg and now I’m just convinced he’s got something so serious as I’m stupid enou...

I can never have a bad day. I can never have a day where I’m slacking because he’s always having a bad day. I can never be in a mood. It’s always something. No matter what every day it’s always fucking something. Either he doesn’t feel good, he hurt an arm, bad day at work, bm being a pain in the ass, big bills, no ...

Had an appointment for my daughter imjections. Went in with my son and partner and she seemed off. My son has 2 spots he has scratched on his face. And she said oh you scratching it looks sore. And then said 'mummy make bleed' because i always tell him to stop scratching as it will bleed. Then he said something else...

Y do men feel like jus cuz we married us wives suppose to open our legs soon as they say so? I and my husband have been facing some issues since we changed roles (I’m no longer the SAHP he is and I work full time as well as still study) since I started working it’s been constant challenges with him and it’s starti...

13 weeks in and nothing is getting any easier. My baby won’t go to sleep before midnight and even after this he won’t without a fight - he was going 4-5 hours overnight at one point but now lucky to go 2-3. He fights all his naps all day long. I follow sleep cues, keep an eye on wake windows. Keep him busy and e...

How do you deal with family members that push back when you strictly say no visitors at birth or for at least 10 days after returning home?? Specifically mother in laws... Mine imposed on my daughters birth 2 years ago. I had a c section and complications afterward. I couldn't recover in peace. She's already been to...

Wondering if anyone has went through a separation and can offer any advice. Me and husband are going through a really hard time, I have no physical attraction to him anymore and there’s no emotional connection. We had a disagreement tonight and I was very honest about how I felt and told him I had felt like separat...

Why do I constantly feel guilty? • I feel guilty if I go out and my husband has to take care of my son by himself (which he hasn’t really done) so I don’t even bother making plans (even though my husband says it’s fine). • I feel guilty that my in laws take care of my son while my husband & I work • I feel guilty ...

I was taking a bath while my daughter’s father was playing with her. She was asking where mama was and came into the bathroom. She had her little toy binoculars and her dad said “you found the hippo” instantly got upset and he tried to play it off that he was talking about a hippo toy she had (she has not hippo toys...

My little girl starts nursery in April and I feel awful about it. I have a toddler already. We don’t plan on having any more kids so I’m not sure if knowing this is the last time I’m experiencing everything is making it worse. Any others feeling the same or in the same situation, I feel so sad I can’t leave her wi...

So my little man has been at nursery for 4 weeks, there has been some failings on behalf of the nursery e.g. poor nappy changes, missing nappies/wipes and the biggest being being he had a orange pip in his mouth that I found when I picked him - I called them out and they apologised and said it won’t happen again n t...

Please someone tell me it won’t always be like this! I’m on a phased return to work, I’ve done three days so far and I’m returning full time (but little one looked after by my husband at home on two of the days). My mum is looking after little one one day a week and she’ll go to a childminder two days a week. So ...

If a man says not to apply for child maintenance because he “doesn’t like to be forced into things” and I would only be given as much as he gives me now or maybe less anyway so there’s no point, a lie? Like I’m trying to figure out if I’m just being played here? Cause if child maintenance does give me less I’ll cry lol

The meal times and clean up and prepping lunch and outfits for little one and for work, the after work rush to get everything done but also have quality time, to still being so exhausted from wake ups from illness and teeth and regressions and being expected just to handle it all, then on days off there is a mountai...

My partner and I are lucky enough to only work 4 days a week. We take different days off so our daughter only has to go to nursery 3 days. On my day off with her I always try to keep us busy, we go to the library, park, walking or I book an activity for us. Today we went to messy play, then lunch and nap, then we we...

I feel like I’m just winging this mum thing. I found the age 0-9 quite fun , easy and rewarding but my eldest is a teenager now and omg it’s the worst. It’s like he’s a stranger, isn’t that fun to be around, selfish, lazy acts like he doesn’t care about me or anything really. I feel so awful and guilty for feeling...

I understand that compromise is critical in a blended family but sometimes it’s just plain old hard . For example , per schedule we’re supposed to get my sd on Friday which is also Valentine’s Day . They agreed to change the schedule and now we’ll be getting her sometime Saturday . My husband thinks it’s not fair to...

I have a shitty partner. My husband transitioned out of the military last year right before my daughter was born and since then he has been a shitty partner. He doesn’t help and if he does he complains. He know doesn’t have a job so I’m working full time and taking care of the house and kids and dogs. I might as wel...

We’ve had a million talks with mom and it’s pointless. We’re honestly at a loss. Mom will let the 5 year old do her own make up and leave it until it stains her face, she will put color chalk and spray in her hair and not wash it out, and lately the new thing is mom using tattoo template ink all over the kids body. ...