Community Posts, Tips & Support on Child Development

Honest, unfiltered, and in real-time: what women like you are talking about. Peanut group chats, support, and posts on Child Development

Teething?

When do you know your babies teething?
My baby is 10 weeks and is dribbling a lot, constantly biting his hands or just anything he can get his hands on. I put my fingers on his moulin and felt his gums and they feel normal but he bites down hard on my finger.

Potty training with underwear

My soon is potty trained whilst at home naked with no accidents and always going to the potty, but if we put underwear on him he wees in it instead of going potty or even saying he needs a wee. We haven’t attempted underwear outside yet. Would love to know how to transition from being naked to underwear, feels like his brain thinks it’s a nappy and can’t comprehend not weeing in his underwear

Toilet training help

We started toilet training in January this year when our son was 2.5 years old. We are now 8/9 months in and we are still having wee and poo accidents near enough every day. We have tried everything I can absolutely think of and I don’t know what more I can do.

I have spoken to the health visitors, his nursery for any advice but nothing has worked. He knows when he has had an accident (not always) but it doesn’t seem to click for him that feeling of needing to go or telling us when he needs to go. It is incredibly discouraging and when we take him to the toilet he gets upset. We don’t put pressure on him because it puts him off but we make the toilet accessible and available to him always.

I am just really at a loss of what to do and I am not putting him back in nappies because that’s moving backwards. I just can’t think of what to do apart from hope that it’ll just click for him one day and it concerns me when he is ideally supposed to be starting school next September but if he isn’t ready toilet wise, I don’t feel I can send him to school until he has mastered it.

Any advice or thoughts welcome

Teething calpol

If youre giving calpol for teething how often are you giving them? Our 16wo is showing signs and weve just given for the first time and it seems to have instantly made a difference. Hes been sucking on muslins and chewing his fingers for a couple weeks but this totally changed his mood. Dont want him in pain but also dont want to be giving every 4hrs for weeks too either?

Boys Toilet Training

I had a little girl in 2022 - she every time we tried to get her out of nappies she just was not ready. We finally got her out of them a few months after her 3rd birthday.
I have a boy who just turned 1 this month and want some feedback from boy moms - when you tried, how did it go. Is it easier for boys or harder

Potty training

How’s potty training going for who’s started it with their little one?

Potty training

We have recently started potty training. My daughter got hang of wees on the potty or toilet really quickly however near 3 weeks in she is still doings most poos in her knickers. She knows once’s she done it but can’t seem to tell me or go to the potty before. Potty is out and visible too her. Any advice welcome please!

Post partum problem?

Ok I know the picture may be a little tmi, but wtf? I will say my gums don’t hurt at all. So idk if this is a post partum thing or what.. or may just irritate because I brush my gums a lot.

Potty Training

Hi mama’s!💗 My son is 20 months & has shown an interest in potty training since around 14 months. I feel like I’ve tried EVERYTHING. We have little potty’s everywhere, big boy training undies, we talk about the potty, and he’ll even sit on it like he’s supposed to… but then he gets up, says “YAY!” and claps like he just accomplished something…meanwhile the potty is still completely empty. 😂

He’ll go on the floor, but apparently the potty is where we draw the line. He also HATESSSS wearing diapers. He’ll take them off at bedtime because he just wants to be free! And honestly, I get it 😅 so I let him be free, but of course… he’ll pee the bed.

I guess I’m just looking for tips or different ways you mama’s have helped your little ones understand that the potty is okay and that pee/poop actually goes IN it. 😂 He seems interested, but I don’t want to push him too hard and make him hate it.

ALSOOOO he likes to touch/mess with his little area a lot, and as a first time mama it kinda freaked me out at first. I’m always like “no thank you, that’s our pe*is” but then I’m like… he’s literally still a baby. ☹️ Is he just discovering that he has something there?

It’s just me & him, so I don’t have a dad figure around to help model any of this either. I would LOVE to hear what worked for your toddlers, especially if you had a little boy who was stubborn about the potty! 🥹

Please give me all the tips, mama’s! 💕

Potty training.. failing

I feel like a bad mother.. my daughter is 4 just started junior kindergarten and hasn’t fully potty trained yet. Our Family is low income so we don’t have lot of finances to work with. I just feel like I failed my daughter by not having her fully ready for it. I don’t have a lot to worked with for clothes until a cheque comes in. I can’t be the only one feeling so bad when others tell me I shouldn’t.

Does anyone have ideas how to help it go better or at least done sooner? Should I feel this bad over something out of our control?

Teething

Any tips/advice or anything that can help soothe teething. My LO is hysterical. She won't take teething rings and the powder doesn't seem to help.

Teething

How do you know when your baby is teething? My baby is 4 months old

Potty training

Has anyone started potty training their Oct '24 baby?

If yes, any tips or advice or general experience sharing please?

Teeth?

Just wondering if anyone's LO's have got teeth yet. Mine has just turned 8 months and there doesnt seem to be any signs of them yet. She has been teething for months but I cant even really feel any under the gums

Is your little one potty trained yet?

I’m on my 3rd attempt potty training i am so drained any advice? He was completely pee trained for about a month and now is going through a regression and i also cannot get him to poop on the potty

Did I potty train too early?

A few weeks ago my little started ripping her nappy off and would say wee wee… so we got the potty out and she would wee in the potty. Took her around a week to have accident free days and now two weeks later she has an accident here and there and it’s still not perfect. But at nursery her first day last week she had 3 accidents and the second she had 7! Didn’t think three was too bad but 7 isn’t great and we had around 7 today. I can’t work out if this is down to them and not being on it enough or because it’s just too early for my little girl.

Anyone have any advice, wisdom or can point me in the right direction?

Chicken Pox

My little one has chicken pox, any tips on how to help?
Keeping him dosed up on Calpol - heard you can't give them Nurofen?

Is this a tooth coming in?

My baby only has her bottom two teeth so far. But now I think her top incisors are coming through. Or am I wrong? Trying to understand why she’s waking up crying, but this tooth doesn’t follow the ‘right order’. I can’t find any pictures online to confirm…

Potty

Nearly 3 year old still isnt interested to actually potty train. How can I help and encourage it as I dont want it getting too late. 🙈 she wees on the potty every evening before bath time and thats it.

When potty training, with wees do you empty the potty after every single use straight away?

I’m only asking as I have been told by 2 different family members
1. Empty after every use for hygiene purposes
2. Let it sit for a while as the child will think if you get rid of it immediately that you are not proud and are effectively flushing there achievement down the drain.