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@batman21 I get uncomfortable seeing other people’s children that are already forward facing when they’re only a year old, so I’m 100% with you on this one. The idea of a two year old not even being in a car seat 😱😱😱

@akags Also, "my kids turned out fine" - are they even fine? My mum would probably say I’m fine. Spoiler alert: I’m not fine. Or I am, but the person to thank is my therapist, not my mum.

@snjeri Lol, tell me about it - when I first found him like that in the morning I was like, excuse me but wtf do you think you are doing, sir, because I was reliably informed that you would stay where I put you for ages yet 😂 not all babies will do it of course, but definitely not something you...

@snjeri Just FYI, make sure the baby’s mattress has some sort of sides to it. You’d be amazed how much they can move even as newborns over the course of a few hours - we’d wake up to discover my week-old son would be at 90 degrees from how we put him in the crib. If you just have a mattress...

@mornings11 I think this is a good point. My stepsister was selling her car seat and unfortunately we’d just bought one, but I would definitely have taken hers otherwise. You just need to know that you can trust it hasn’t been in an accident, and you can’t trust a stranger to be honest about...

@theflower This is too adorable for words 🥰 Also I couldn’t agree more about toys. Before they’re six months, you need, like, one toy. Literally one. Just something nice for them to look at or mess with occasionally. And as you say, that could be some random thing from the kitchen like a...

@torrance55 FYI, I think you meant to say “authoritarian house”. Authoritative would be another word for gentle parenting (when done properly, ie not permissive). Easily to confuse though for two words that mean the opposite!

@katrina2017 Yeah, this is my take on it, though I’ve never had one. Getting the baby out is less painful and therefore “easier”, but everything that comes afterwards is much much harder (assuming you didn’t have terrible complications or a fourth degree tear or something). With my eldest, I had...

@doomedhyclic Yep, I’m that meme with Will Poulter saying “you guys are getting paid?” except it’s cleaning toys 😂 as far as I was aware, germs don’t tend to live all that long on surfaces?

@magling I saw your last post and was so happy for you, I’m absolutely thrilled to see the progress! Our son was also delayed, and everyone kept saying “oh, one of these days it’ll just happen and you won’t be able to shut him up, you’ll be sick of hearing him”. I was like, cool. When though...

@ernie1 Holy shit. That’s awful. Not long after my son was born, he had some redness on the end of his penis, and I wasn’t sure if it was nappy rash or not, so I took a photo to show my partner (he was making dinner downstairs and I didn’t want to have to strip the baby all off again to show...

@simplysamie I think that @jamesdtyler has absolutely covered it but also, maybe it’s just me but everything else aside, kindergarten kids are like 4-5, right? And the show doesn’t even START until 8:30, so they’re not going to be in bed before 10pm at the very earliest? Are they going to feed...

@danny123 Ugh, I really hope for your sake this article is accurate with the June timeline then - maybe you can squeak in with one dose before he starts. And thank you. We are fortunate that he didn’t get a really bad strain of it, it seems to be the one that’s just a bad cold (omicron BA2? Not...

@danny123 Tell me about it. The first real risk we’ve taken in two years was sending my son to nursery two days a week, because we were wary of stunting his social development now he’s getting to an age where they start interacting more with peers. He caught covid his first bloody week...

@alyakim This. When covid first hit, my worst fear wasn’t my baby dying immediately, it was him being admitted to hospital, on his own, for days or weeks. Not knowing where we were or why we wouldn’t come. This terrifying mental image did manage to make my laissez-faire mother take...

@helkel As far as the chlorine goes, every child in Northern Europe learns to swim in a chlorinated pool or they don’t learn, as outdoor pools just aren’t a thing here (too cold for the majority of the year for adults, never mind kids). Just to give you that frame of reference.

@kc8vji I’ll be honest, although I like a lot of Montessori philosophy, I’m not down with breakable tableware from a young age. At the end of the day, I’m not willing to endlessly buy new glasses or new plates for my 18mo to experiment with. It’s wasteful, it’s expensive, and it’s potentially...

@kimmy7489 Iirc this is a legit tactic in Scandinavia - babies are who wrapped up warm and then left outside to snooze sleep really well, because humans tend to sleep more soundly if our heads are cool and bodies are warm!

@lovejoyhope Exact same situation here. We kept him safe for two years by taking every precaution, and finally out of a worry of stunting his social development now he’s coming to an age where kids start practicing those skills, we took one risk and started sending him to nursery two days a...

@clemdawg First two months is the hardest!!! Well done you! Keep going!