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I am now 8 weeks pp.. does anyone else just have zero interest in sex?? My partner keeps hinting but i dont feel at all attractive nor do i want it

I am new to Virginia and am looking to make new friends.

My pregnancy vitamins have run out and I'm scheduled in for a c section in a week and a half because of baby being breech. Is it worth me buying a whole month worth just for a few weeks? Has anyone else stopped taking their vitamins?

Do we usually get a tax rebate? Has anyone had one before if you earn around 40k. Can’t see anything on Hmrc login. I also adjusted my tax code for a bigger allowance last August. Feel like I should be owed one but feel impatient x

I just want to vent for a minute. I applied for this job that I deeply want and I finally heard back from them today and they offered me an interview but they sent a generic email to everyone that got interview. They sent 5 days and said it’s a group interview with 4 people for each date. Idk I feel like a group int...

My partner is just pure lazy and will put you down when he sees you're doing well for yourself. I'm trying to get a mortgage with my 10k savings and 20k from my parents. We live in my partner's one bedroom flat, which be boight before we were together. I've been looking for brokers and it's just so hard because I'm ...

Anyone give advice regarding maternity leave. I’m aiming to take Maternity leave around 36 weeks. I’ve worked out my leave will finish round February 2026, but I should have about 8 weeks annual leave saved up. Does anyone know if I can take this at the start or do 3/4 weeks leave then start maternity officially a...

So Q: if you gave birth 5 weeks ago and you are horny and your partner refuses you consistently. How would that make you feel? My partner is reasoning for not wanting sex is because he’s afraid for another one. & that “I see how you are with this one” That statement blew my mind. I said “oh so you see how good I ...

I'm thinking of leaving my job but it says in my contract that I have to work 14 weeks. I have 10 weeks of annual leave to use and wondered if it counted as I can't really afford to pay the contractual maternity money back. I was hoping to take the 10 weeks after maternity leave and work the remaining 4 weeks if thi...

Hey im new, im 37 next month im a full time mam to 4 boys who are all on spectrum so yeah i dont really get chance to soicals not many people can relate or some reason im just not very sociable myself and ive tried to make friends by joining clubs ect ive come on to just make some friendship myself who can relate to...

I wondered if anyone on here feels they are happy to only have one child? My heart would love a second, but I don’t feel I could go through the newborn and baby stage all over again whilst still meeting my current son’s needs. I am the only person out of my friends, family and people on here who doesn’t feel able to...

My gums are so swollen 😢

Hi all I am really struggling on making mum friends.. Anyone else feel like this? I have two kiddos 💕

Hi mums! My partner is buying a £700 computer for gaming for his 8 year old daughter (she’s not a proper gamer, she hardly finished Mario on her Nintendo) He often complain about money, and today he had a breakdown saying that he was feeling a bad parent that couldn’t even afford a present. But, now the question is,...

Looking for some mom friends I have a 5 month old baby girl and am completely out of touch with people since having her aside from my husband.

I used to think that if I just worked harder, pushed through, and forced myself to be more disciplined, I'd finally get the results I wanted. But no matter how much I did, I still felt stuck. ☹️ Stuck in self-doubt. ☹️ Stuck second-guessing myself. ☹️ Stuck wondering why success felt so easy for others but so far a...

Hey girlies! I’m feeling kinda stuck atm. My bd and i haven’t had the greatest relationship, since the start he was a cheat and lied a lot about everything. I fell pregnant a year and a half in and we both had long talks and decided to keep her as he promised he would change. I feel kind of dumb for believing him si...

My partner informed me last night that he will be going away for a lads holiday to Dubai when I am just gone 7 months pregnant, for context we can’t really go on holiday together this year as my pregnancy is considered high risk and I’ll be having more frequent checkups after the 24 week mark but off the back of thi...

iPad is my husbands, but I’ve always used it to watch Netflix on and since we’ve had our little boy we use it for him. The iPad is connected to my husbands phone. I was looking back at photos from last summer on the iPad as we sometimes use it to take photos on and I found a screen shot of my husbands Snapchat chat...

Can anyone tell me there experience? Do you feel more like yourself? Also any recommendations for not getting pregnant with out taking birth control 😂