Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

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...

Hi ladies. I don’t know what to do anymore. My little one has since birth been very attached to me, she’s breastfed and we co sleep which has made our bond incredibly strong but also has meant that dad has had it a bit easy I think. Fast forward two years and I am the only one who can put her to bed or settle her at...

I dunno how to stay off my phone when baby’s awake I play with him all morning then when he gets whiny and he wants to do his own thing I let him play about my living room and I sit on my phone I feel like such a bad mam that I’m not always paying as much attention as I could be. His attention span is like 10 mins i...

I don’t get out much on my own. I’m a sahm and my child is 2. Apart from medical appointments, I’ve been out without my child a handful of times max. My partner and I have been out together without our child twice. He goes out all the time and not just for work. When he does go out he spends at least the next day in...

Husband doesn't think we can afford but I have done the numbers bad we can but it will be a little tight for a while but we will be fine. I know in my heart I always wanted a few kids. It's really getting me down, we said we would wait a year nad dicuss again, it's nearly been a year and he isn't budging. I am 35 a...

no matter how many time outs, goes to his room, talkings to, safety songs literally anything and it will not teach him to listen. As I let him play in the front yard as I sat right there and watched, I was putting his baby sister in the front door and (he’s NEVER done this) he bolts into the street and around the co...

For context, have been very sick the past few days with an EBF 6 week old baby to take care of. I haven't done anything around the house to tidy up, because I've just been told to rest as much as I can. We have a toddler as well who has been going to daycare during the week and my husband is working. I haven't as...

Why are my baby’s grandparents a bit useless? I hear stories about people being able to leave their babies with their grandparents, but both sets of my baby’s grandparents just don’t seem to want to do any babysitting, whether that’s offering to take her for a few hours so we can have some time alone, or even offeri...

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Guys I’m pregnant with my 3rd baby and I had a fight with my husband. He left his clothes in the washer for me to wash them for him but I didn’t do it so this morning he woke up around 4 in the morning throwing bathroom cabinet to the point he woke me up. This morning when I wake up at 8 my dirty clothes was in the ...

Do your partners pay any bills of go half each because I pay everything and get no help with bills or food only if I ask for some money I will get help from mine so many people has said get rid I have had talks with him about it but think because I get benefits it's free money so he don't need to help don't help wit...

I’m almost 3 weeks post partum. Does anyone else feel a bit jealous of the freedom their male partner has? Yesterday evening my partner had his friend round for a few drinks and so I was doing all of the childcare even though we didn’t really discuss it. He thinks because he was still home that he was helping with t...