Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

I feel like I’m failing. This is by far the hardest phase of little ones life, and I am hardly coping. He’s SO WHINY. He just cries constantly for everything and anything. He doesn’t want to play with toys, he just wants to turn light switches on and off over and over. I spend all day following him around the house....

My MIL is staying with us for 3 weeks, 4 weeks after the birth of our second girl. She’s coming over from NZ (we live in England) and has said she wants to help. She’s a nice enough lady but I’m finding her staying with us too much. My husband is back at work and I’m having to entertain her all day. The days when m...

does it annoy anyone else that whenever your partner has the baby on their own they go to their parents house because then they don’t have to deal with the baby? i know he doesn’t deal with baby because he doesn’t want to do it at home either? im stuck, do i need to just tell him to go ? im doing it all on my own an...

Does anyone else struggle with not wanting to have sex anymore? Like, I just don’t care about it and I feel so bad for my husband.. I’ve never felt like this ever and was the complete opposite before… I just feel like it isn’t necessary and other things are more important. I still love being affectionate and cuddly ...

Hubby works hybrid, which means sometimes he's at home and other times he's travelling to the office. When he's finished work and returned home/ come out of his office, he's tired, wants his own space, has no time to play with the kids, and if one of them moans/ cries he'll have a go at me saying he doesn't want to...

My little boy is 4 days old so yes I know tiny and doesn't know anything other than me and my husband but I'm really beginning to regret him which it kills me to say because I love him so much My little girl was a terrible sleeper but more in terms of frequent wakes, but my little boy hasn't spent one night in his ...

My best friend of 20 years, bridesmaid at my wedding, speak to almost every day has never met my baby, and he’s gone 1 years old now. She’s doing IVF and has said she can’t meet him as she finds it too hard. I’ve never ever pushed her, I’ve always been understanding, but now he’s 1 it’s making me really sad. She...

Full time working mummies, how are you doing it? My partner and I work full-time and my child is at nursery full-time but I seem to be so exhausted and stressed. we don’t get help from family as they live 3-4hours away. I’m thinking to go part-time but would like to know if anyone is in a similar situation and ho...

So I’m thinking of using a prep machine for the night feeds because I do the hot shot method with the rapid cool but I want to know if anybody is using a prep machine if so are you cleaning it regularly or what

I'm in a toxic living situation with my family. Was evicted from my apt, car totaled, have to stay with my family in a small hotel.. My mom and brother bxtch every second they get. My son has autism he's 5 and I try my best with him. I'll buy food for the house but I can't touch or eat certain things even though I...

Anyone having crazy mood swings and getting angry at their partner for no reason? I mean I got angry recently because (although not his fault) his life hasn’t changed yet while for me/us women, it changes from the moment you see that test. All the not drinking, paying attention to this or that, avoiding some foods,...

Does anyone else feel this way? Just need to vent: My son is just starting to sit up now but can’t quite do it on his own. I feel like he can’t play on his own for more than a few seconds/minutes. Is anyone’s baby sleeping through the night? He wakes up usually once but he has been sick so it’s been more. I feel l...

My husband is at work and I just got my housecoat off the hook in the bathroom and caught a whiff of his pants 🙈 they smell like him so I took a good sniff 😅 i miss him so much and its only monday 💔 anybody else do this??

My place is getting cluttered with toys especially after Christmas. She has 3 horses and only uses 1. She still has her baby car which she could sit in and mess with she barely uses anymore except sometimes. She has a play pen full of stuffed animals which we won’t get rid of because she loves stuffed animals but.. ...

Hi yall I need some light and also vent so is gonna be a long post, please read it and give your point of view don’t matter what I’m not sensitive. So me and my bf been together for 5 years now, we met online and after meeting up it was an instant connection kinda, I was single(but not alone) for a long time and di...

My toddler goes to daycare twice a week, recently she’s started playing up after daycare to the point she’s making herself be sick. Shes really well behaved until she goes there. I just lost it, she was screaming and screaming head butting things and I shouted stop at her😭😭I have a 7 week old and I don’t know what…

Nursery changed my daughters key worker without telling me. I noticed since a few weeks that another staff member was collecting and bringing my child and that the same staff member was doing all the updates in the app. This person was in another room first so now she is in my daughter’s room. When I saw her key wor...

So long story short my partner was in care as a kid due to his mum not being able to handle him and his behaviour. Because of this the midwife wants a social worker to come out and do an assessment even though she has no concerns😅 I’m more than likely sure that we had to have this with our eldest but this was 3…

How long it take for your child to settle at nursery? My son has started childcare last week. Was supposed to do 3 hours a day but have been doing 45 mins. Apparently he cried constantly without stopping. The first few days we're hard, he couldn't stop crying when we picked him up. But now he's coping better after b...

I have an almost 5 month old and we are going through a lot of stuff. I’m also a first time mom and I feel like I can’t do anything through the day. My house is a mess, my sleep is a mess, I have 0 time for myself. Her sleep is a mess at the moment…I think she might be teething and she’s fussy and hard to please at ...