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I never thought I’d have to ask this

My husband and I have a two month old baby girl together. My friend came over while my husband was at work to see how she was doing. I mentioned that daddy gave her a bath last night, and she looked absolutely disgusted. She said how “perverse and inappropriate” it was for him to bathe his daughter, as she’ll think it’s okay for men to touch her there. I said that many dads bathe their daughters and there’s nothing weird about it, but she said most dads leave that to mom or get a female family member. Am I missing something? Is it really inappropriate? I never thought of it like that. I’m just a new mom trying to do her best.

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How do you financially do it?

Since no one IRL wants to discuss finances, I’ll take to Reddit’s anonymity. My husband makes 82k a year, and we’re basically broke. Between the mortgage, insurances, cost of food, phone bill, waste service, internet and vehicle there’s literally nothing left and not only is there nothing left and we have credit card debt. I worked but only made $15 an hour, child care is far more than that. Just curious as to what folks do to manage it all? Especially if you’re in a situation that you might not make a whole lot? I took my dog to the vet yesterday and was slapped with a $300 vet bill for god knows what, then the nine month clothing I just purchased her she’s already grown out of.

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Help!! My Son won’t get his shots!!

My almost 12 year old had a severe needle phobia. He fights..hard, bites and eventually passes out. We have tried everything to get him to calm down, including giving him advanced notice, meditation, distraction, punishment, rewards, everything!! Last time it took my dad and two nurses to hold him down 🤦🏽‍♀️. He’s past due for his hpv and another vaccine but I need a better way this time, I don’t want to scar him mentally and emotionally.. has anyone else gone through this? What worked for your child??!? Also both of the nurses at the doctors office are pregnant so if he fights at all they can’t do his vaccines since they can’t risk getting kicked. Please help me😥 ***all antivax propaganda will be ignored and blocked**

I let my baby fall off the bed

I looked away for a moment this morning and my 6 mo fell off my bed. He has been rolling and my husband had JUST warned me that I shouldn't leave him on the bed. I did and he rolled and fell. I immediately took him to the hospital and he is fine, no injuries, thank God. He is his playful and smiley self. I can't stop feeling absolutely and overwhelmingly guilty. And I know that I am guilty, it's ok. This was my fault. But it's such a deep and intense feeling. I can't shake it off. I held it together while taking him to be seen, but I completely fell apart in front of the ER pediatrician. And I feel like falling apart now, but I can't even cry. It's so strange. My husband is clearly and rightfully disappointed in me. I've never seen him so worried, I thought he was going to pass out. Now when he looks at me he seems to angry. He did not yell at me or berate me, but I can't shake the feeling that he hates me.

My 10 month old when I’m eating literally anything

Why are people so weird about only children?

I’m one of four and I always felt like an outsider. I have some deep rooted issues with feeling left out or forgotten. This is one of the MANY reasons (it’s a lot of work, it’s expensive etc) why I don’t want another child. I’m not adamant that I’ll never want another child, I might change my mind but I don’t feel the same yearning I did when i had my son. When I tell people this they think I’m crazy. I don’t understand why having an only child is such a big issue. No I don’t think he’ll be unsocialized weirdo (that stereotype is false IMO), no I don’t think he’ll be lonely and no I don’t think I’ll need someone for him to play with so I don’t have to. Lately, I’ve had family tell me that I need to have another so my son has someone when his parents are dead….. Way to lay the guilt trip on me. Just to add my son is 15 months and I’ve been getting these questions since he was a few weeks old. If anything it makes me want another one less lol. Thanks for reading my rant. Edit for typo

Do families all sit down for dinner together?

Just wondering if I’m a horrible parent. I usually have my older kids eat their food together since this is the only time I can force them to have a conversation with one another. I usually already ate my food at this point and I am doing something else while they are eating, either laundry, cleaning the kitchen, making to do lists, and usually caring for their younger siblings (getting them ready for bed). We are a big family so it’s usually chaos here. Wondering if other families are like this or if I need to make a better effort of having the family eat together. Obligatory side note: we are all very close and I spend a lot of one on one time with each of them.

Potty trained during the day, help me get rid of the pull ups at night!

Third post since yesterday but I was just looking at my son and have a question for anyone who can help me! :) My 3 y.o will be 4 in June, he’s potty trained during the day and only time he has “accidents” is if he’s standing to pee and it gets on his undies. No big deal. He’s still in pull ups at night, it seems that every time we try to get rid of them at night he pees! 😩 he never has accidents during the night otherwise minus once a few weeks ago when he was sick and had Tylenol before bed so he slept REALLY good. He typically wakes up like once or twice to go pee during the night. Most of the time he ends up in bed with us and I don’t entirely want my bed soaked in pee, ya know? Lol. Any tips to fully get rid of the pull ups and make sure he doesn’t have any accidents at night? Open to any and all ideas! I don’t want him in pull ups at 4. :)

Someone tell me this is going to get better?

In August i lost a pregnancy at 8 weeks, a week later I tested positive for covid. Then my husband and our then 8 month old tested positive, so we were in isolation for almost a month. We had a couple of weeks of being ok and then both kids got sick, they both had pinkeye, oldest had pneumonia and youngest had strep. They finished antibiotics like a week ago, then last night oldest puked all over his bed, got him cleaned up, this morning he’s still throwing up and so is the baby. We have had one sickness after another since fucking August, i dont know if it’s just shit luck or if im doing something wrong. I just feel so defeated, it feels like at this point we’re just sandbagging while the flood goes right over it.

Coping with daycare and illness

I'm struggling with navigating the daycare/illness/work gauntlet. Kiddo is born right when covid hit. We've tried a few different things, but right now both my husband myself are working full time with our now 20 month old in daycare full time. He started daycare about 3 months ago and it feels like he's been sick ever since. The latest sickness was pinkeye, which turned out to be strep, which my husband and myself caught...and now which seems to have migrated back to kiddo. We've also all had various colds, a stomach flu and a handful of covid scares. I worry about keeping my job when I have to call out to take care of him. I don't have an option to work from home and neither does my husband. We are paying $1200 a month for daycare, but kiddo can't always go because he's sick...which he catches at daycare. People keep telling me it will get better and he will have a strong immune system, but right now I'm just frustrated and feel like I'll get fired fro my job.