Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

They might not be 100% on board as they already think we have too many kids but I told my husband we should just turn up with my baby bump and be like surprise!!! We’re meeting up with the in laws in about a month and by then I’ll be ready to tell them as I’m already starting to show. My worry is they won’t be able ...

The title is definitely one of the hardest parts about being a FTM 🥲 yesterday at a restaurant while celebrating my cousin’s birthday with family, my son started having a tantrum. He’s a very calm baby usually so this is a new thing for both him and me. He probably started throwing tantrums about a week ago (I feel…

My partner and i have had our ups and down and mostly it’s been on his side from not respecting my boundaries and breaking promises. We have a 19 month old pending evaluation for autism. My son is very attached to both of us. However his dad is almost like another child to me. He has mocked me in the past when he’s ...

MIL comes over Thursdays after work around 6pm. Kids go to bed at 8pm. My 3yr always throws a fit because she doesn’t want them to leave. It’s exhausting. Now that I have 2 kids I told her she could only come on Friday nights or the weekends. This is a huge inconvenience for her and has came over once since. She ...

Guys please help me I can’t stop crying today! Baby boy doing his first nursey settle tomorrow for two hours! I’m so upset I just don’t want him to go but it is what it is. I also have massive anxiety he is going to get poorly before our holiday abroad that is in about 3 weeks! I can’t stop getting upset! Don’t know...

Is this fair or am I being selfish. So I never get a break I don't have family so aside from my partner doing little bits I do everything for my little one. My partner has been on holiday and still goes to games and sees his friends. We always have to see his family (even though it's awful for me as I have seen me...

Out of curiosity, what does your partner do with baby/round the house whilst working a job? I feel like he doesn’t help enough and he feels like he helps basically more than he should

The guilt I feel having to navigate between a full time job, being a mom of 2, my toddler was just diagnosed mild ASD so trying to figure that out , all while trying to pull myself out of a depression is weighing heavily down on my heart. My mama heart just feels so heavy now that my oldest is pulling away. He spend...

We are supposed (me him and baby) on a trip tomorrow but we’ve been arguing a lot lately and I feel if we can barely manage nights and weekends, 6 days, all day together would be tough. He is likely grieving (mother terminal illness and will pass soon) but he refuses to go to therapy or find healthy outlets so he j...

We’ve been fighting literally every night as of late, and I’m exhausted. Looking after baby, fighting with him, barely able to take care of myself. And I feel like he just doesn’t understand at all, he’s so one sided and has been talking and acting very selfishly and he can’t seem to see himself, or be told about hi...

i have a 18 month old, during the first 6 months my partner was not the best dad. He would go weeks without changing her nappy and weeks without holding her. He did cook and do the washing, and the cleaning was shared. he would carry on his normal life, hobbies at the weekend/evening, going out with friends on the ...

My partner wants to store a gun (for clay pigeon shooting) in the house (attic) I've explained I don't like the idea but he is doing it anyway. I feel so annoyed and just don't like the idea. How would you feel about this. Am I overreacting?

Since becoming a mum, nearly a year and a half on now, I feel like I've just completely lost myself. Is anyone else feeling like this? I literally haven't done anything for myself that I used to enjoy since before LO was born, not even once. For instance, going to the gym, going shopping for a couple of hours, hav...

Can anyone offer advice? My husband and I are 6 months into having our first baby and as expected, our relationship has changed which we had been prepared for. However, it seems like we underestimated how prepared we were. We are a lot less affectionate towards each other, I can’t tell you the last time we properl...

So my Mum does my sisters childcare 2 days a week, my sister then puts her children into Nursery 2 days (for free) on her days off, so she gets a break! I have asked if I can come across fhe one day my Mum can do with my kids because I work from home one day a week. My kids pretty much entertain themselves there ...

My husband constantly compares me to his loser dad, loser sister and my loser brother. I guess that makes me a loser as well. I do everything for my kids and family, except work and pay bills, but somehow I’m the bad parent because I might not bathe my kids everyday or do dishes everyday.

Full time stay at home mama of 1.5 year old twin girls. Planned a night out with my bestie and it fell through. Details don’t really matter. Just annoying. Only happens to me . Am I allowed to say that this is one of the hardest things about motherhood? It never stops for us . Bd comes and goes , friends are out and...

If you went on a trip with your husband to see his family and he leaves you there with his sisters to go to a casino with his brothers in law? And you have 3 kids that are crying cause they feel weird sleeping over and one is a baby. Im so annoyed. But i shouldn’t be right? He’s allowed to have fun without me. He ne...

So my ex who I dated 2almmost 3 years , we ended on good terms so we talk sometimes not often just around birthdays life events and holidays , and I've noticed something ..... when we was together he a guy who had resting bitch face (his words) I would tell him his just a teddy bear , and his still seems like the s...

We thought we were one and done! Our son is turning 3 in May and he is just the best person ever. My partner mentioned a few months ago that we should have another. Some days I think it would be a good idea to grow our family but I have a lot of anxieties. First, our childcare bill for our son is £1500 per month. Th...