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Co-parenting blues

Being a Mom is hard, being in a 50/50 schedule I feel is harder. The Mom guilt is so real. I feel sometimes I am too hard on my child because I feel there is a lack of structure in the BDs home that I have to overcompensate for. In doing so, then I feel guilty when she is away from me. I try to do my best to keep a ...

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I can’t decide if I want another baby one day

I think I might, but I’m really not sure. My husband and I have a 14 month old and we always thought we’d just have one. Lately he keeps mentioning things like “well if we have another one day we’ll be glad we kept this” etc.. He was cleaning out our closet and decided best to keep the pregnancy pillow “just in case...

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Am I Wrong for Blocking My BD & His Wife After What I Heard?

Hey mamas, I need to vent because this situation has been bothering me, and I need to know if I’m tripping. I overheard a conversation between my BD’s wife and my daughter, and it did not sit right with me. My daughter’s birthday is coming up, and she was so excited, telling BD’s wife she has to wish her a happy bi...

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Who else needs a break from their husband sometimes?

He cut his hand while trying to figure out what our 2yo needed and ended up with a tiny cut (like maybe 1/4 cm across, truly) MD hebsat with a paper towel on it for 30 minutes, claimed the bleeding didn't stop enough, got a bandaid, didn't mention it for awhile. Weekends are his bath nights so of course the band aid...

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Advice please

Me and my partner have quite a rocky relationship, his kids cause quite a few issues and arguments between us which cause me to leave the house with our one year old when his kids are staying out of embarrassment because I know they’re going to go back and tell their mum what’s happened and I’m just genuinely mortif...

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Working moms who work full-time, do you feel guilty?

I keep seeing things about attachment. Sometimes I do worry that my attachment with my toddler is not good enough because she needs to spend a lot of time at daycare. We are a two income household since we live in a very expensive city. Working part-time or stopping working is not an option for me.

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Tell me I’m not the only one who’s dealing w this

My husband constantly tells me I’m doing nothing and I’m always cleaning the house and taking care of our baby. (I’m a SAHM). We are going up north and he excepts me to pack for him when he won’t even watch the baby while I do so or while I pack her stuff or mine. He tells me I only care about my stuff, when all I d...

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My mom doesn't appreciate what I do......

I am a SAHM and my fiance and I are staying with my mom until we can get out on our own. Lately it seems like ANYTHING I do isn't good enough for her. She thinks all I do is sit at home on my phone and take care of my son. I am constantly cleaning and I am so done feeling underappreciated 😔😔😔

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Nursery

We are moving back down to Ayr, which is our home town so things will be a bit better and more homely and I was wondering if it’s a good idea to put my 16 month old into nursery for 1 day a week but really on the fence about it . I was really against it (don’t even know why) but he would go to my mums when I was wor...

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I’m the one going crazy?!🥹

My partner and I have been fighting a lot lately cause of very different ways of parenting our 3 years old son. He even told me that I don’t use the right voice to shout at my kid. I told him that I hate shouting and how important is for me to calm down in moments of tantrum and simple offer our kid a positive exa...

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Am I the only one….?

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of posts from Mums about how their husbands/partners don’t seem to be pulling their weight in helping with baby duties, mostly night feeds but also other tasks that involve their child like nappy changes etc. My LO is 16 months old and I personally have never asked my husband to do a night f...

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Is this rude or am I over reacting?

My husband hit his head while helping me bring groccery bags in. and since then has constantly been talking about this. He had a panic attack, and now has ‘health issues’ that resembles health anxiety symptoms, but for him it’s real pain and spinal issues. Anyway, I have been trying to support him religiously afte...

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Hate weekends

For those who also have a partner that works during the week… do you also find the weekends SO stressful? During the week me and baby have a lovely little fairly loose routine, but still a routine. Then the weekend hits and with my husband here it all goes out the window. He tries to help but I’m constantly having ...

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Stressed

My baby doesn’t clap hands, crawl, wave and will only sit if I put him in the sitting position (will sit for a few minutes). I’m getting worried. If I put food in front of him - like a plate of pasta, he will just pick it up and throw it on the floor - he will pick up things like toast and cucumber though. Feel like...

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Feeling really guilty 😭

I was served my notice from my flat & I've got a house sorted, with a garden etc. It's a fresh start. I've slowly been doing the house up over the 28 days I had to leave the flat like when my daughters been at nursery/at her dads. We moved in Monday. She absolutely loves her new big girl room (she's 2 & a half), lo...

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Selfish?

Sorry for such a long post, just want some perspective. I’ve been working on a book for nearly 4 years. I’d get a lot of writer’s block so it was never a daily thing, but when I got pregnant I completely lost interest in all my hobbies and stopped writing. For the past few months, I’ve been very occasionally writi...

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Do your in laws offer to have your little on?

My finance has asked his mom 3/4 times does she want our Lb overnight do we can have a date night, she just ignores the convo and changes the subject, it’s really awkward! I’d rather her just say no!

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Am I being the arsehole?

So a little bit of background (sorry it’s a long one!!!) I have a sister who is 3 years younger than me (aged 30). We have never been close as we’ve always been worlds apart, she was kicked out of school for doing drugs, got pregnant at 16 and has since had 3 kids with 3 different men (no judgement on that, but it’...

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Not baby related

But looking for a hoover recommendation not to expensive and needs to be lightweight I have hard floors and carpet

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How would you handle this?

My partner doesn’t care about his medical health so I do it for him like making him go to the doctors and stuff. I have health conditions and when eve I am sick and need to go to urgent care centre he gets upset and gives attitude. For a while now our toddler has been experiencing nose bleeds. Today own was worse. B...

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