Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

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...

Not baby related but a stressed out mum! I am at my wits end. Since the weather got warmer I’ve noticed more and more fruit flies in my house. Our living room/kitchen is open plan and I’ve always made an effort to keep it clean. Spillages get cleaned immediately, nothing sweet is left out, all food is sealed, fl...

My husband and his cousin just worked over 24 hours straight no sleep on a buddy’s vacation house about 2 hours away. They did this due to a time constraint and my husbands poor lack of planning. This should have been done two weeks ago. Buddys wife wanted to go up there today and it was a bathroom overhaul (water b...

I have precipitous labours, with my first child he was here in 2hours from start of contractions to birth, with my second he was here in 1 and a half hours from start of contractions to birth. I get really strong, close together contractions and then waters break and baby is here within 10 minutes and like two pushe...

Me and my partner had our baby in May 2024, we currently saving to buy our first home. So we living with his parents. Not that I wanted this from the start. But as he’s got another child, from a previous relationship. Long story short she had a rough start in life( No fault to my partner ) with some pressure from m...

When are your babies going to nursery? My girl is 4 months old and I return to work in August: I’m only going back to work for 3 days a week and luckily I work with my partner so those 3 days we work opposite so we don’t NEED childcare help. This being said.. I’m thinking of the benefits of nursery and how it ca...

My husband and I cut off his parents a year ago due to constant boundaries being broken, insults, negative comparisons to my husbands brother (golden child), and overall differences in outlook on life and personalities. Now the mom was diagnosed with cancer and looks like she doesn’t have many years left. My husband...

My child is 15 months old and I’m struggling. My husband works a lot, comes home late and works in the evenings until late at night (this is something out of his control at the minute due to how demanding his work is, he’s in the military so the jobs need doing) we barely see each other anymore which in turn means w...

My husband has been telling me recently I don’t excite him anymore, I don’t try to dress sexy for him at home, I don’t make him ‘c*m’ (I DO make him, but I think he means I don’t initiate sex or we don’t do it often ?). Everything he brought up I tried to work on. I started dressing more cute in some new night dre...