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Original post here and first update here So this morning I went out to brunch with my girlfriend from grad school who went to the baby shower and who only knows the friend im ditching thru me. Ive never ever shared any grievances/concerns with this girlfriend regarding pregbant friend, nor...

I’m a FTM to a 9 month old. I really don’t know shit about being a mom, I’m learning as I go. I read a lot about parenting online and in books although I know that never beats experience. My friend stopped over today with her 3 kids, we hung out for awhile and she asked if I wanted to go get...

….proceeds to list the 45 foods her kid will happily eat at every meal, but just won’t finish the last few bites. MEANWHILE, my child literally has 5 “real” foods he will eat and the rest of his nutrition comes from Serenity pouches because I don’t want him to starve. “Offer a variety.” “Let...

Can someone tell me positive parent stories? I’m genuinely terrified. Everything , e v e r y t h i n g I read is negative. It’s scaring me so much. People saying they thought of telling family member to adopt their babies, people saying they missed their old lives and regret having children...

Original post here So many of you saw my post about my beautiful 3 ¾ year old, and his amazing progress away from being non-verbal. That was 1 week ago. Just over 1 WEEK AGO he had 4 words in his vocabulary. A week ago he doubled that to 8. In the past week, he has: * Said 'Nana', loud and...

So I’m trying to decide which diapers to get for our baby who is due in 3.5 weeks or less! I thought Pampers Pure would be a good alternative and maybe not as expensive as some others but I noticed they have vegetable oil in them… Is this a big deal? I know vegetable oil isn’t great to ingest so...

I'm 20 weeks pregnant. Im starting doing light therapy again (doesn't produce any vitamin D) and also taking a liquid vitamin d supplement. Im having a hard time leaving the house and getting natural sunlight. I usually get out of the house at nighttime to some exercise but im pretty much a...

Tonight when my daughter (2.5) and I were snuggling up on our chair she turned to me and kept stroking my face and saying, “it’s g’be okay, mama” She did this for like 10-15 minutes. She’s been doing this recently the past few days but today was the longest amount of time she did it. And...

It's hard to put into words I guess - but I want to move to a more conscious household as far as cleaners, bath products, etc. I start looking into making changes and then I just start to get overwhelmed. I am one year PP and when I was in the thick of it after my baby was born, I was deep into...

I’m currently scrolling through baby photos of my daughter while she’s at school. I’m a mess with tears rolling down my face. How were these pictures taken 2, 3, 4 years ago? How? We have one daughter who is almost 5. I always just assumed I’d end up having two children, relatively close in...

Had a blast trying this out with my pre-teen and her friends. Thought it might be fun for those with artistically inclined littles, or you know, those of us who feel like we're super close to playing Lord of the Flies: The Home Game :p Thanks to @nep91 for being a mom-v-p! (x-posted from...

This is partly a cross-post from my bumper group, so sorry if I'm spamming like two of you. :) I have an almost 9-month-old. We co-sleep on a floor bed, and have not done any sleep training. She was consistently going to sleep around 5:30-6pm, and sleeping until 6:30-7am, with several (3? 4? I...

Would love to hear positive stories, advice, anything about g-tubes. I don’t know anybody with a child like mine. Lifelong history of not eating enough, pickiness, failure to thrive. They finally concluded that we’ve done all the testing and trialing we can, and that she needs a g-tube to grow...

So here's my situation: FTM to an amazing little boy who will be 9 months on the 11th. Since his 4/5 month sleep regression where he went 7-9 hours sleeping straight without waking, he has been refusing to sleep in his crib (playpen with mattress) and waking up every 1-3 hours in the night. We...

It's no one's fault but I feel so bad for her and my FiL. We had our second baby 4 days ago. All of our parents are 2 hours away so my mom stayed with us the week leading up to my due date and the plan was for her and my in laws to stay with our toddler while we were in the hospital then the in...

Just looking to vent, gain perspective and/or advice. Vague for privacy using terms likes (Spouse, baby, family member, dog). Cross-posted cause this fits multiple topics. TL;DR - Family members dog nipped our baby and we won't let our baby be around it anymore which is going to cause tension...

Last night my daughter had a real heart-to-heart talk to me and in that she told me she sometimes doesn’t love me and will tell her friends she doesn’t. She wasn’t mad when she said this and said she didn’t want to hurt my feelings. She also talked about how their dad plays with them (being her...

I just had my third baby, but first c section. It’s been 4 days and there’s still no talk of when I can be discharged. My baby is being discharged and so my husband will have to take care of her because I’m not able to. I had to have blood transfusions and wasn’t able to move as soon as I...

My baby is 7 months old and my husband told me that his mum doesn’t feel like a grandmother. We live next to my MIL and she sees our baby all the time cause our house is currently being renovated and we have to use the bathroom in her house to shower. We also have Sunday dinner every week and...

Should I be worried? She won't point either. She makes sounds like "a da da" and "a wa wa", but not a single "mama", "dada" or anything of the short. Where I live there is no early intervention, so I'll have to wait until she's 18MO for a proper developmental evaluation. Mommas, do you have...