Community Posts, Tips & Support on Toddler & Child

So, my MIL told us during her visit last month that she wasn't coming for a Christmas visit. She left gifts for the kids in my closet. Since then, I started working full time and hired a nanny. The nanny is amazing but is super shy. My MIL is notorious in our family for making comments about diet, exercise, weight, ...

My fiance grew up being good friends with this guy and he has a fiancee that I became friends with. Me and her got really close and she made me feel like we were pretty good friends. We haven't hung out in a really long time and she started ditching me or taking advantage of me. For example, she wanted me to make so...

My husband took a 11 day trip, went to South America with his best friend. Meanwhile, I’m at home with a 19 month old, doing all the childcare on my own. When he got back from his trip, he didn’t seem appreciative of the work. We were also preparing to move, so I was making appts to fix things in the house, talki...

So I have a friend whose little one is 8 years old, my LB is only 8 months so obviously there’s a big age gap. I feel so awful saying this but her LO is quite badly behaved… he shouts at his mum, runs off when walking, throws my pillows off the bed when they comes to my house, runs off in stores, demands things suc...

My partner has regularly gone out spontaneously on the weekends since the baby has been born (now 10.5 months old) recently I asked if he could pre plan nights out instead so I also get the chance to go out and plan things with friends as I haven’t been out with just my friends since he was born. He had planned a...

Hi My partner works 9-5.30 Mon-Fri, he works from home so no travelling time. We live together. I'm on maternity leave. My daughter (almost 5 months) is breastfed but I can express so baby can be given 2 bottles a day. How much childcare should my partner be doing so it's fair? I have no idea what other people do. S...

I have a 2yr 4 month old and a 1 week old baby. Since bringing baby home my toddler has been extremely unsettled. Wants me to cuddle him And do things with him all The time, very emotional, hitting, refusing to do anything with husband. Being abit unkind to him, unprovoked hitting. I know he’s just adjusting and un...

Is this the right size to serve egg strips to a 6 month old?

so after putting baby in bed we were in bed. my husband was having little pain in his stomach so i gave him gas medicine. he was fine after some time. i was trying to sleep, but he was moving a lot and i was getting disturbed. suddenly he woke up quickly and went out and came back quickly, he said he thought someone...

My partner went round to his mates house last night just to chill, he said he wouldn't be late. I thought it was strange that he didn't tell me he arrived there safely and I didn't hear from him for hours. I decided to call him just to check he was okay as I'd messaged him a couple of times to just make sure he w...

I know all Nurseries are different, but does anyone have any pictures of the meals their baby eats there? I keep asking if I can see some photos (because I'd like to know how much she is actually eating) and they won't send any. I'm just completely clueless!

Can I serve my baby tuna pasta mayo? Just asking as it’ll contain mayo. She doesn’t have any current allergies and eats eggs regularly.

We finally have teeth! What solids did you start with? So far we have only tried apples but want to give our little man more, especially with Thanksgiving coming up.

Yesterday I took my 2yo son to a toddler class, we've been going to this class for years now. But Yesterday he just didn't want to join in at all Kept sitting at the side, jumping on the seats and wanting to cuddle in with me. I tried encouraging him to join in but when he did he would just drop to the floor and g...

Hey mamas, just wondering if anyone can recommend a good quality and sturdy Christmas tree fence to keep my 1 year old away, who is definitely in her menace, into absolutely everything stage!

Anybody else getting annoyed at how distracted their baby is getting during feeding he’s been easily distracted for awhile but it seems like the last couple weeks it’s so much worse any body got any tips? I have two cats and it definitely complicates things now I’ll get him focused and then a cat walks by and all fo...

Has anyone got any tips please? To help my mind 🫣. I’m so anxious about the thought of going back to work, leaving my baby. He’ll be with two sets of grandparents two days, then nursery the other two. I know he’ll be fine. But it’s just the thought of not being with him. I’m really anxious. 😟 xx

I have an older child, and her labor was fast. My son came 2 days ago. It was a very rough hard labor on me my body's severely sore but I'm still managing. I love my children. I love my newborn. It's been almost 10 years for me for taking care of a newborn so I'm re learning everything but patient and eager to lear...

My toddler loves Cocomelon dances. I would like to find some other dancing shows for her too - what would you recommend? 🙂💃

So my husband used to be a sense of a safe space for me especially with my anxiety but lately I’m realizing over the past two years he might actually be more triggering to it. It’ll take me forever to go over every detail but long story short I’m not in a good place mentally. I’ve been turned off from him since our...