speaking?

are your LOs speaking yet? Any tips to encourage?

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My 11 month old is saying some words and also signing alongside.
I started using makaton since he was around 4 months and he is just starting to use it now.
He can currently say: mama, dada, nana, bubble, apple, dog, cat, more, please, no.. He can do animals sounds to most simple animals too like cow, sheep, dog, cat

I'd say lots of reading, talking to your baby, showing and naming items around the house like door, lights etc

It'll happen! I'm sure you are doing all the right things anyway 😊❣️

pardon my ignorance. what's makaton

also i am so confused about reasing books. My LO snatches them and starts eating/ biting the pages 😪 how do you get them to just sit and listen

We have a one year old and no apart from babbling, we also read and constantly chat to her - they’re all different x

There is Phonics alphabet on YouTube that very very good to teach baby to talk it come with hand sign that can do together
It very fun

I just start repeating thing when doing thing

When I take him to bath he know it bubble time so he would say bubble
We go to bed room it bed bed

Just try to match word with obvious activity

While we walking to the bathroom I asking him ok we naked now and we go...ba ba bubble

I think to pause a bit help him a lot with speaking

Mostly I learn from Mrs Rachel show how she teach toddler to speak

in our community

Wdy think of this for a toddler to learn word construction?

I'm open to anything else to start teaching him to read and write. He's 3!

Do men really enjoy fellatio?

Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

Naps

How is everyone doing for naps?

Little one is 9 months old and will have 2 half hour naps and one solid 1 hour - 2 hour nap a day

Then settles for night around 9pm. Wakes for a feed around 3:30 then sleeps until 6-7

Vanilla extract

Has anyone used alcohol free vanilla in their babies formal to help them drink?
I’m 100% sure my baby refuses her bottles as she doesn’t like the taste of it!

Just anxious to try it, don’t want her to get used to it and then refuse bottles again after two weeks of using (correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve read you use it for 2 weeks max)

TIA 🙂

Pumping advise

FTM to a 2 week old! I’m breastfeeding and then giving one formula bottle last in the evening before bed. I want to start expressing milk to give me some breathing room and also allow my partner to be more involved in feeding. I’m finding the idea of introducing pumping into my day quite overwhelming though. I don’t want to take milk away from my baby by pumping if he needs it during the day when being breastfeed.

Can anyone advise how I start pumping and when to do it? Thank you!

Sex post C section

Hi ladies I’m 4 weeks 5 days postpartum and I had a C section. I’m not bleeding properly anymore just some brownish discharge stuff that starts on and off. I’d like to do the deed with my partner; is it okay to do so or shall I wait the full 6 weeks. I feel up for it but also worried because the advice is 6-8 weeks.