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Anyone’s baby started teething yet? I have a suspicion my 10 week old is starting to. She’s constantly got her hand in her mouth and rubbing her gums. She’s started resisting sleep and won’t settle unless her hand is in her mouth. She spits out her dummy now and wants her hand instead

My boy is 18m soon to be 19m and he’s so fast now he’s almost running, I lost sight of him for like a second today in the shop and my heart sank and I shouted his name quite loud, my bf said that I’m embarrassing and need to stop this he said I’m like this when he falls over, like I will gasp and make a big deal but...

My 17 months old just started nursery, and he catches bugs every single week, mostly ear infections. I am alone taking care for him as my husband is always at work. It’s really difficult, he is running a fever of 39 for a third night..I have to put tv on for hours when he is sick because I simply can’t do other staf...

This man does not understand a thing about how pregnancy changes a woman’s typical body functions. I just called to make reservations for dinner which I wanted for 5-5:30 pm bc if I don’t eat by then I am STARVING. The restaurant only had 6:30 so I was upset because now I have to eat two dinners or at least a very h...

So I work 3 days a week, my partner WFH 5 days. I do absolutely everything around the house and cook everyday while pregnant and look after our 3 year old. He currently pays all the bills. I am mentally and physically drained of doing it all alone. He says I pay the bills so I have to do everything else? Is this fair?

Is giving your baby ready brek for lunch or dinner everyday bad for them?

i am having a REALLY tough time getting my one year old to eat anything. i have tried and tried to get him to eat new foods. but he only likes to eat waffles, crunchy things like the little baby cheese puffs, teething crackers, yougurt bites etc. as a baby he would eat ANYTHING he used to love squash, zucchini, eggs...

Anything I offer she has an issue with! She will eat like 3 spoonfuls and start spitting it out. She may be teething but this has been the case for nearly two weeks!

My son used to be a nightmare on holiday at meal times which made every night really hard work. Just been for a week where he sat every night with tablet and headphones, ate all his dinner, we managed to actually eat our dinners and even have a chat and a glass of wine but the dirty looks we got were mad! Thing is h...

What age did you start solids at? Did you wait til 6 months? Did you start a bit early. Here’s my issue: I go back to work a few days before she is officially six months. I really didn’t want the nanny to be introducing solids as to I wanted to be the one to experience that with her. It’s not so much about allerg...

Anyone throwing a party for their soon to be one year olds? Mine is mostly planned, but am I supposed to have party activities? Has anyone done something cute or planning on activities?

My little boys 1 at the end of march and I have no idea what to buy him… anyone have any ideas or suggestions much appreciated please 🤗

Hi all, trying to decide whether or not to enroll my three-year-old in preschool. We plan to send him to pre-K, but we weren’t sure if preschool is also just as important prior to pre-K. We have a nanny share now so we don’t want to break a good thing unless it’s really important. Anyone else been through similar th...

Would you say this looks like his bottom tooth is coming in?

For those who’s LO have never eaten much, I’m not talking about LOs who may go off their food during sickness / teething etc… I mean, never been big on food. A few spoonfuls a meal is a success sort of thing What are you planning to do / doing about it? Is it a case of trusting the process and that they may just b...

Does anyone know?! I went to my health visitor drop in on Tuesday and we got to talking about dairy intolerance and food etc. She told me apparently I could get food on prescription for my 10 months old... I thought this was a little weird and I explained I am currently on maternity pay so I don't qualify for the h...

Does anyone have any tips or recommendations on how to start letting a baby feed themselves? My baby is 8 months and has no interest in doing it herself. She just uses the spoon as a drumstick and was never one to put things in her mouth so she just plays with her banana puffs and throws them on the floor🤣

My boy is 4.5 month and has generally not been too “difficult” of a baby.. he hit the 4 month regression around 3ish months so night time sleep got worse, but he never had too bad of a witching hour or anything like that as a newborn. However in the last 2 weeks, it feels like he is just mad all the time. Anything I...

I haven't showered in over a week, since my baby was born (over 7 weeks ago) I've showered a total of 4 times, and my laundry has been done once. I feel like I can't get a shower without making sure my partner will be okay with the baby for 10mins. I'm not sleeping because I'm in pain or because my partner oversleep...

Sometimes I just feel like I don't want anyone to need me and to stop to-do lists constanty rolling through my head, I just want time on my own and quiet! I feel bad saying it because my husband does his best to help with everything but because he doesn't look after baby as much as I do, he still asks me questions a...