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Raising kids in England V …

Hi there Please can I ask what your thoughts are on raising kids in the UK? Is there anywhere else you’d like to raise them? I’m a dual citizen of UK and Australia and I’m So torn with what to do.

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Just curious

I've been looking after my SK's this week as they're off school and my partner is at work. We had a conversation last night as I felt like he had acknowledged that I'd had to cancel plans with friends and family to be with them and a simple thank-you would have been nice. It made me wonder, how many of you just fee...

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Did you get your refund?

Y’all I’m still waiting on mine and I filed on Jan 4th 😩

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Update on considering adoption for baby

Hi everyone so I considered some months back about adoption for my unborn baby, due to the dv situation with my kids father and me being in a shelter. Well I got into a program that’ll cover my rent up to two years. They’ve also been helping me look for apartments and gave me a case worker and my kids really want to...

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Can you love your children and hate being a parent at the same time?

I love my kids. I would die for them, kill for them, they will have my unconditional love, no matter what. I feel like I don’t like being a parent. Is this normal? Does anybody else feel like this

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raising a boy to be a loving man

This app has so many horrible stories about men, it’s got me a bit worried about raising a boy. Surely the mothers of a lot of these men did the best they could so why are SOME so awful (society, biology ?!). Luckily, the best man i know is my husband and the father of my 5 month old son but i still worry. Any tips ...

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Disobedient Kids

What did you do with your disrespectful, disobedient Kids when they weren’t respecting the rules in your house and being unappreciative of all that you do as a single mother? Send them to live with their father? Or family Or?

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Does it get easier?

What I mean by that is pregnancy and parenting. I'm 14, and pregnant. I haven't even got to highschool yet and I am so scared. I don't know what I'm going to do, it's incredibly hard right now and the baby isn't even here, let alone when she is here, great goodness.

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So I am firm believer of no one outside of mum and dad kissing the newborn for obvs reasons..

Thing is, this time round I'm going to be a mum to a toddler and a newborn.. if youre a parent that believes in the no kissing where do you stand with your toddler kissing the baby? Yes or no?? And what's your reasoning? Idk what to do with this one

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DNA & Ancient DNA ect

I have decided to stop learning about my dna and my ancient ancestors ect. Mainly because: 1: Dads side of the family is not helpful at all so I don’t know what to do as far as my dads side of the family goes and knowing more about his side. 2: starting to believe that Dnagenics,yourdnaportal,adntro, mytrueance...

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Hypothyroidism and FET

Anyone have any advice for my next frozen transfer. Won’t be due for a couple of months but eager to get others experience of navigating an under active thyroid on 75mcg Levothyroxine. Last fresh transfer failed to implant and keen to find out if this is the cause etc.

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Were you a foster child that stayed with one family throughout?

I'm considering fostering as I'd love to help a child who needs a family and also, I've always wanted a big family but don't want to go through pregnancy and childbirth again. My husband isn't up for it because he wouldn't be able to handle losing that child after getting connected and feeling like they're a part...

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Transfer day

This morning I had my fresh transfer of a 5AB blastocyst embryo. I’m really hoping and praying it sticks. I’ve been curled on the settee all day not wanting to move out of fear something will happen, it’s going be a long 9 days. Any tips or advice very welcome please 🤞🏻

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FET DAY!

It's transfer day today. Please keep me in your prayers and wishes! I am super excited. The day is finally here!

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Feeling really guilty for not giving my son a sibling yet….

My son is 2.. 3 in may and we have no intentions of having another baby just yet. But I feel this insane amount of guilt when he plays alone and when his friends have brothers and sisters… he’s never mentioned having one and I’ve never felt this way but recently it’s consuming my thoughts all the time… please can I ...

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Experience of 2 children with no support

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any experience of having 2 children with no help from family or friends? My lo is 16 months now and I would love to start trying for another baby. The only thing holding us back is that we haven't had any support from family with our lo, and even with just one it has been very dif...

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