Baby Milestones

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Starting to lose the will

Really pleased for all these women who have happy loving babies but right now I need to hear about people's babies that arnt happy etc. Because currently I am not enjoying parenthood and everyday I'm hating it a little more so il start... - every Nappy change is a constant screaming, wriggling wrestling match - un...

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Leap 2

Howwwww is everyone surviving through this ?!?! My baby is 8 weeks and the past few days have been an absolute nightmare. NON STOP screaming at the top of her lungs constantly. Doesn’t want to feed as much and when she does she’s still screaming during the feed. Fighting sleep all day and night. I can’t wait for thi...

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Crawling

Is there anything I can do to help him start crawling ? I think he's fairly close but when he goes to grab something he hasn't quite worked it out yet and flops. He's getting very frustrated now !!

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Baby talk

I have read, that babies normally say their first words at about 12-14 months. What are your experiences of this? Any delays at all? Any way to encourage them?

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Baby just takes hat off!

I have tried ones with ties too but he just gets so angry that he can’t pull it off and screams until he manages to. Anyone else’s LO not let them put a hat on them anymore?

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1 year old not crawling yet 😅🫣

Pls help! Our baby girl just turned 1 and she’s still not crawling… She can army crawl but that’s it. We know it’s probably our fault because we didn’t put her on the floor much until about 11 months old because we only had super hard floors in our house. The second we moved and had carpet, we put her on the floor...

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Cleaning

Anyone else feel like they’re constantly hoovering but baby still manages to find crumbs or dirt and put them in their mouth?? I literally have to hoover like 3 times a day but he still manages to find the one spec I miss and put it in his mouth. I have laminate flooring and feel like it gets dirty SO quickly!!

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My newborn hates the carseat, any advice?

My baby boy is 6 weeks old and freaks out every time we put him in the carseat. I’ve tried feeding him before, putting him in carseat asleep, using the sound machine, and those don’t work…

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Super scared about bouncer and toddler

I hope I’m just being paranoid or having the baby blues. I just put my newborn down in the bouncer and my toddler went over and grabbed the sides and did one super hard bounce. I was right there and stopped it. But the one bounce was hard and my baby’s hands went flying up and was clearly startled. I haven’t been ab...

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Crawl has changed

My little girl has been taking steps for about a month now but can’t yet stand up without pulling up on furniture so still crawls a little bit. The past few days though she’s been doing a really weird crawl where it’s like she’s half stood up 😂😂😂 did anyone else get this stage before standing or wonder if it’s not…

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Tantrums 🫠

I feel like my girlie has tantrums with me a lot, whacks me and constantly gets the hump with me - however whenever my partner is around (he works a lot) she never shows him this side! 😂 is this happening with anyone else? X

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Self soothing?

My six month old had started rolling his eyes into his head, the only way I can describe it 😂😂😂 like he’s trying to look at his for head hahaha, he looks possessed when he does it. I think he does it when he’s tired but I’ve also noticed he does it when he’s happy/excited. Hes 6 months old. Do you think this might…

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No Talking

Baby boy babbles everyday, points, claps and waves but no babbling of mamama, dadadada or any other words. Anyone else ?

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No eye contact yet

My baby a lot of the time I talk to her she looks up immediately and rarely makes eye contact at 1 month and 2 weeks

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Late talker

Anyone else baby is turning 1 soon and only says one “word”…my baby only says “papa” 🤣 I’m all the time telling him “mama” 🤣 and he doesn’t even care lmao but he definitely understands a lot. I guess I will have a late talker 🫠 I noticed my first boy was a late talker, then my girl she knew so many words by 1 year…

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Baby picking ear

I can’t tell if she has an infection but she doesn’t have any symptoms. Not that I’ve noticed But she’s picking g her ears And when I looked it seems like she has wax Any ideas if this could be the reason why she keeps sticking her finger in her ear? And if so what could I do?

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