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Why are dad bods socially acceptable, yet mom bods are the ones who are quickly shamed, when we are the ones who went through the miracle of pregnancy and delivery?

I just don’t get it. Don’t get me wrong, I love dad bods! Not hating in any way. I’m just scratching my head as to why dad bods are this hot thing everyone’s admiring, and mom bods are shamed, and not celebrated by mainstream media. We’re the ones who go through delivery and pregnancy and everything in between, our body is actually doing very hard work! Then we’re left with this post baby figure and expected to immediately lose weight. I kinda hate this the more I think about it.

Please stop with goody bags of trash.

Please. It’s garbage. Plastic never goes away. Just stop. Sorry, I’m starving myself (wheeee) while going to multiple kid parties this weekend and I just can’t take it anymore. JUST STOP IT. We know it’s polluting everything. It’s not a sweet gesture. It’s trash. And no, my Tupperware of carrots and celery isn’t holding me over. 😵😵‍💫

Kids with migraines?

Looking for advice - anyone else here have a teen that gets migraines? Mine gets one about every other month - so not a *ton*… but he throws up like clockwork and he’s out for the entire day. We have a pedi appointment coming upon a month or two… but has anyone successfully tried preventive meds? I’m afraid they’ll tell us he doesn’t get enough to take them. But it really interferes with his life when he gets them. Thanks!

I Just Want To Sit Down

For more than two minutes. Weekends and after school feel like a nonstop cycle of trying to sit down and immediately getting back up to help daughter (6) get another snack or another drink or find a toy that she refuses to put away so now she doesn’t know where it is. If she’s not needing something, the dog wants outside every five minutes to stand there and do nothing. We don’t have a fence so we can’t just put the dog outside and we also have bobcats and mountain lions in the area, so I don’t want to leave her alone outside anyway. My husband doesn’t get home until after 6 during the week. He’s a great dad but daughter always comes to me for everything even when we’re both home. I end up getting irritated and snippy and feel bad but god damn, I just want to sit down without someone needing something all the time.

1yo scream cries at one particular house

Hola, So I just had to bring my just about to be 1yo home from another 1yo birthday party. My boy seems to absolutely hate this house for some reason. He is great with other people, smiles at them in stores, doesn't have issues with groups or loud noises, its just this house. My wife even took him over there maybe 2 months ago and it was just her and the mom that lives there, and he scream cried the entire time. We would take him outside and he would calm down a bit, but you could tell he was still upset. As soon as we even face to walk towards the house, its back to absolute crying again. Does anyone have a similar issue?

Bingo summing up the newborn stage

Toddler runs away and hides to poop - need help

We started potty training my son (3 in august) and he started off pretty good with some hiccups. He was peeing and pooping in his little potty amazingly. Then, he completely refused to poop in his potty and wouldn’t poop unless we put him in a diaper. I finally decided to get rid of the diapers and just have him going comando. He will poop in his pants only now. He hides when he poops in his pants. Also, while out, he has accidents (mostly if he drank a lot and we don’t stay on top of taking him pee, like on a long drive). How can I help him get over his fear of pooping in the potty? I’m not sure why it started, when he was doing so good! Is he just not ready? He pees in the potty great! Sometime I feel like we should give up and go back to diapers. Any advice?

Am I the unreasonable one here?

My husband has spent like 2 hours cleaning the bed of his truck this afternoon, after we got and spread a truckload of dirt today. I’m annoyed because 1. That seems like an excessively long time to hose out the bed of a truck, 2. It is literally supposed to rain for like 4 days straight starting tonight, and 3. This seems like an unnecessary task to start with. He got pissy at me for suggesting the rain might clean it out for him if he left his tailgate down, “It’ll just make mud!”, like I’m the biggest idiot in the world for suggesting this. I didn’t think it was that stupid of a concept, but maybe you guys can tell me.

Feeling of impending doom - is this normal?

Ok I’ve always been an anxious person but since becoming a mum it has reached new heights. I’m terrified of my own mortality and I’m also terrified about world events and I have this sense of impending doom about the state of the world and the UK (where I’m based). My other half thinks I’m depressed and anxious but part of me feels like it’s mother’s intuition. I’m worried for my son bringing him into this world that’s in a proxy WW3 and an economic crisis where I have to work rather than look after him. Motherhood has just made me realise how messed up and far away from nature our society has become. Anyone else?

lose weight and breastfeeding

Anyone put on weight since they had there little one? I was 12 stone 3 when I first got pregnant, at 40 weeks I got to 14 stone 8. When I had my little one, my weight dropped down, wonderful. However, I continuously feel hungry due to breastfeeding and pumping. I know weigh 15 stone 4. Heaviest i’ve ever been. I go for daily walks x2 for atleast 30 mins to an hour , I used to go for runs but I can’t now (I got covid a while back, really affected my asthma). I eat mostly healthy things, occasionally have junk food. I do exercises at home when my little one is asleep. Any ideas on how to lose weight? more specially belly and thigh weight😭😭

Comments from strangers

Does anyone else get weird comments from strangers when out? Today I went shopping with my 6 month old and I got so many people coming up making weird comments like “oh he’s so cute watch out someone might take him!” “Aw where did you find him” one that really weirded me out was “his eyes are so pretty I want them”. Like I understand these comments and harmless but they also make me uncomfortable when complete strangers come up and comment on him like that.

1 date night in 5 months. That's all we've managed so far this year and the one we had was Valentine's day, which basically doesn't count. So last night, after Clemmie finally nailed the perfect hair tussle (it's taken months and a lot of grieve), we went out and have fun. Just us. And 15,000 other people to watch "parenting hell". Clemmie sent this picture to the kids to prove we weren't pissed - they responded with tonnes of compliments about Clemmie ( who looked stunning) and then Anya said "tell dad that the year 2001 called - they want his hair style back....." - Arsehole - who knew kids could knock your confidence from 60 miles away! #meandthemisses #datenight #2001boyband #parentinghell #dadlife #fatherofdaughters #fod

Solids

Man, I know I've been here before about this but still, solids are hard 😂 I was so gung ho about doing baby led weaning but that's so much harder than giving my baby some puree and letting him go to town lol. I tried to give him a big piece of watermelon last night, not a fan, so I put it in one of those mesh teethers. Not feeling it. I've tried to give him babysafe verisons of our dinners like salmon and potatoes and bell peppers, he is very much in the exploring stage but I can tell he WANTS to eat it, he just can't get over the texture. He's been so grouchy today and trying to breastfeed constantly so I grabbed one of the applesauce pouches I just bought for him and he ate half of it without a single issue. He needed some help cuz he was trying to nurse from it lol but still, no gagging, no weird faces. And when he was done he wasn't grouchy anymore 😂 Just thought I'd complain for a minute. I wish this stage was easier. Good thing purees are easy to make 😂

Allergen exposure for "late" solid starters.

My baby will be 6montgs old this week and the only sign of readiness is interest, they can't sit, hold their head steady for extended periods not actually bringing food to their mouth, only reaching for it. However I was advised to introduce allergens as early as possible. I've heard of rubbing it on the skin, especially with peanut butter. Could that work with other things too or should I just wait? (I didn't start actually eating solids until 11 months and have no food allergies so idk). The advice changes constantly. TIA

Playing hide and seek. I’m in the laundry room.

They well never find me because clearly to them that room doesn’t exist. I will pretend to be a wet towel on the floor and their gaze will automatically avert.