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Ok but seriously how do people do this more than once?

I love my baby. It took 4 years...many injections, surgery, tears, and some luck to get her. My husband and I were together 12 years before she arrived. We get along great. He does his fair share. We have no financial troubles (not rich or anything).I never had PPD or PPA. Natural birth....hurt like a bitch but uncomplicated and I had a lovely pregnancy. Our baby is a "good" baby. Wakes once a night (she is 5 months old). Adorable and smiles a lot. But damn it this is a lot and it never ends. I'm always tired. It is so much work. We were fence sitters and now are firmly one and done. Are we just wired differently from other people? Are we weak? Am I the only one who feels this way ?

Do your babies actually sleep from 7pm-7am?

Just curious because that’s all I see when I search up baby sleeping schedule. My baby is currently 10 months old. He sleeps from 9pm - 7am and he waits up for a bottle in the middle of the night then go right back to sleep.

I think the hardest part of being a SAHM is the overstimulation.

My kids have been up since seven and they go to bed at seven. That's twelve whole hours of constant noise and touching. That's twelve hours where I have to be prepared for someone to need something at any given moment. That's twelve hours of hyper vigilance to make sure everyone is being safe all day. No breaks. Some afternoons I just want to scream because it's so incredibly overwhelming. At the end of the day I just want to sit in a quite dark room and never come out. I was prepared for motherhood to be hard, I new I was going to have to sacrifice a lot, but I didn't realize it would take so much out of me and I'd never have time to take care of myself anymore. I honestly don't know how some moms handle it all so well.

Someone broke my kids thumb at school and nobody called me!

So I don’t even 100% know what happened still, because my kid is in so much pain and upset. My six year old and eight year old are in a 1-3 Montessori class. At school today, during gym, my son says someone threw a basketball at my daughter and somehow it broke her thumb. I’m assuming it was an accident, again I don’t know. Son just says he threw it really hard where she and her friends were sitting and it smacked into her hand. Okay so then I pick them up, and my kid walks up covered in blood and just a bandaid over her fucking thumb! Nobody cares, I enter the school and nobody at the school seems to care or even bat an eye. My kids thumb is broken! I took her to the clinic and it’s being dealt with now, but can I take this higher up ? Do I have any legal ground? I’m FURIOUS

Having a hard time finding “toddler sleep sack” for 2 year old. Anyone use one they like?

Also, yes I know I can use a blanket but he likes sleep sacks I’m looking for a summer one for my 2 year old that has room in a sack or with his feet out either one but no fleece options please

Evicting baby

Were there any techniques that you used to help “motivate” your unborn fetus to join you earthside.

My babies stopped drinking formula at 10 months old

Consistent with the recommendation of their pediatricians (the #1 rule of thumb ALWAYS), my kids were SUCH good eaters that the doc agreed that whole milk + a diverse and healthy diet with sufficient vitamins + nutrients was appropriate from the time they were 10 months old. I just want to let y'all know in case those of you with older infants who eat everything and have no milk allergies or intolerances were wondering how much you have to worry about lack of formula. No one told me this was an option; I asked, out of interest with baby #1, and my doc said it was ok. I'm not one to spread misinformation, but I thought this might be helpful to some people who are struggling with what to do when they can't find formula. For older infants who handle solids like a champ, you can ask your pediatrician if formula is necessary.

It’s not cancer!!

TW: cancer … … … … Sharing here because I don’t have many other places to share this news. For three months we have been terrified my husband has lymphoma. Biopsy was this week and pathology came back last night. Met with oncologist today and it’s not cancer!! He does have an autoimmune disease that we discovered through this process. It was either lymphoma or this autoimmune disease, so thankful the result is autoimmune and not cancer. We know the likely treatment for his autoimmune disease and hope he will be feeling much better very soon. As someone with two chronic autoimmune diseases, I know it won’t be a picnic at all, but thankful it doesn’t mean chemo or something life threatening. Just so happy today! And relieved. I sobbed and sobbed when we got the good news. Happy Friday to us!

My 2yo daughter tells me to go

I have a 2yo daughter.We have an awesome relationship.But sometimes and nowdays more frequently she says "go away daddy" or "go to the balcony/living room etc".When we are just the two of us in the house we are always laughing , playing , cuddling and stuff and she never says things like this.This is happening when she is with her mom or her grandma and I come to her room and try to play with them.We live together with my wife / her mom and we never fight or yelling.I really dont know why she is (literally) pushing me away... Any guesses?

Dad's perspective when trying to hold a hungry baby

I’m mad/worried

I’m MAD Hello everyone, so I just need to rant… We have been very cautious throughout the entire pandemic, we’ve gotten our vaccines and we never hang out with anyone if they’re feeling sick. And my husband side of the family gives us so much shit and acts like we’re freaks. Well for my first Mother’s Day I spent it cooking for my mother-in-law and sister-in-law when they came over to our house. I gave my baby a couple bites of food out of my bowl… And of course mother-in-law took that as an invitation to feed him off of her spoon. My husband asked her to stop, saying he didn’t need anymore of the food etc. and she told him “oh shut up” Fast forward to today….guess who has Covid? My mother in law! & she’s feeling awful enough to be in the hospital. Hoping baby doesn’t get sick, as that’s been our concern the entire time. & why we try to have “rules” in place, even if we get shit talked for it 😩

Circumcision talk

Having a baby. Me and the mother are not together. Baby is gonna be a boy. She asked about whether he would be circumcised or not (i never was and neither is my other son) she said she would leave it up to me. I also wanted her to feel like she had something to say too so she talked to her family and now she wants to get him circumcised and i don’t. Ultimately her decision will probably overrule mine but the fact that we can’t come to an agreement on this is killing me. This is also my son as well and i would rather he make the decision if he wants to get it done later it life as that is an option.

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