Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

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...

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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 ...

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...

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...

My partner out of nowhere wanted to go out clubbing at midnight last night..I said well obviously I cant go as we have a 4 month old but I said to him 'you can' all i asked was the update me whenever.. I would text him around 2am to ask when he was coming back no response..and where no response so I went to sleep..5...

Long story short, I have always been the one to handle the majority of things in our lives, cooking, cleaning, buying groceries, including being the breadwinner for most of our relationship. For obvious reasons since becoming parents he has needed to participate more, but I always need to prompt him or absolutely lo...

Does anyone else’s baby daddy just take all the time??? Like he just doesn’t seem to wanna do anything else. I’ve got 3 step kids, my son who is 1 and a baby on the way. All he does is sit down and play video games.. it’s really starting to get to me now as he just doesn’t do anything else with his day. He believes ...

I barely get any help from anyone else so while I need to do everything, I also have to manage it all around my clingy baby and even when I can sit down she's on me fidgetting and climbing all over me which overwhelms me so much. When my partner tries to take her she just screams and he doesn't take it well so I jus...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My little one has been so aggressive the past 2 weeks, especially this past week. I've been slapped in the face so many times, had my hair pulled so roughly trying to put in the car seat, kicking and screaming every nappy change, refusing to get dressed or go in the bath, or get out the bath. Food just gets thrown a...

Is anyone else’s child a nightmare to get ready? Mine will not just let me get him changed and he resists it ALL THE TIME. I end up shouting at him and it the most stressful time of the day. Any tips would be appreciated

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...

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...

I find it really hard to play with my 3 year old. She’s so girly and not like me in the slightest in that aspect. At 3, I was playing in mud, getting in all sorts of mess etc, but she’s so girly it’s unreal. At 3, she’s into make up and hair, singing and dancing like your typical girl which is lovely. But when she...

My little one is almost 4 months and I’m struggling with how he never seems content for too long. It might just not feel that long as Ive also got a 3 year old and I’m on my own and he is just a baby but is this a phase? He really is a happy baby when he’s happy but once’s he’s fed or slept (which is only like hal...