August 2024 Babies 🇺🇸

The past couple weeks, my daughter has been super jealous when it comes to my son. (Hes 7 months she’s 2 years old) like if he’s eating something she’ll throw a fit and say “me me me” wanting what he’s having which I can understand but it’s also when my fiancé or I are you know Playing with him or giving him the slightest bit of attention she gets all mad and tries to step in or you know throw a fit. Like I can understand why she would feel jealous. I’m just confused and why she feels jealous now and didn’t feel jealous when he was first born. is anyone else going through this? my fiancé told me not to give into it, especially with the food thing where she throws a fit over the food, not give it to her cause it’s his and she needs to learn that, but I don’t want her feeling left out, I already feel guilty enough about having a second baby so close to her and I didn’t really get to give her a chance of being a only child which I know sounds so wrong, but I do feel guilty about that. But don’t get me wrong. She loves her brother! she plays with him every day. I just think now that he’s starting to like play with stuff and move around and eating food now too. It’s starting to really like make the jealousy come out

I work 8:30am-3pm Monday-Friday , I have an almost 8 month old and a two year-old. I work at a daycare and bring my kids with me to work. so by the time I’m home I am literally exhausted😩 I like to have at least an hour to myself if I’m lucky at night , I usually cook dinner around 4:30-5ish and have both the kids bathed and ready for bed by 6:30-7ish. but is that too early? My daughter normally doesn’t fall asleep till like 8:30-9 ish but I put her in her room and she plays and watches her Elmo til bedtime and that’s when I usually have my quiet time . I just feel guilty, because I know it’s so important to have time for yourself, but I don’t want my child’s childhood boring , she gets to play all day long at daycare just by the time I’m home I don’t have energy 😵‍💫

So we're a military family with absolutely no family whatsoever in the state and I don't have any sort of village. I was a stay at home mom but got no support from my husband, and I needed breaks so I put our daughter in daycare but I still don't work. I spend the day cooking, cleaning, gym and something for myself like thrifting. I do have 4,000 of my own income that I contribute because of VA benefits. Do you think it's selfish to put my daughter in daycare (some weeks it's full time, other weeks it's part time and she does great both ways). Sometimes I feel very selfish because it's like I'm not spending so much time with her as I feel like she deserves. But at the same time my husband told me SAHMs don't deserve breaks (we're getting divorced don't worry lol) and the only way for me to get relief was daycare and I truly have no desire to go back to being a FT SAHM. I like getting time to myself and being able to cook, clean in peace.

Hi everyone. My little guy got the dreaded hand foot mouth from daycare. Was wondering if anyone had any good tips for how to keep kids comfortable? My son is SO itchy and not sleeping.

I’m doing oat baths, calamine lotion, diaper cream, Motrin/tylenol.

My son got bloodwork recently at his 24 month appt. And he has slightly low iron. Are there drops or easy to chew pills for iron specifically or multivitamins anyone has tried for this age group? His pediatrician suggested half a Flintstones vitamin and/or an iron liquid supplement I can't for the life of me remember the name of. Or i can try making him more steak or iron dense foods.