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Hey, La leche league, screw you.

Every time there’s a post on Reddit about safe co-sleeping, someone references la leche and the safe sleep seven. This post is not about co-sleeping and it’s safety or lack there-of, this is specifically about the very first paragraph of their safe sleep seven article that states: (1) Weaning? Leads to short-term and long-term problems. (2) Night weaning? Not healthy for you, your baby, or your milk supply at this age. (3) Supplementing? Ditto. Hey la leche league, screw you and your anti-formula stance. You wanna say breastfeeding is safer for co-sleeping, whatever, I don’t have enough evidence to know if that’s true or not. But what I do know is that it’s really messed up to tell new parents who are probably reading this article because they’re desperate to get some sleep that supplementing isn’t healthy for them or their babies. Wtf. New parents - if you need to wean or supplement at ANY AGE for you or your child’s mental or physical health - do it!!! Sorry. Rant over.

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Let's guess, which current parenting trends won't age well?

There's always lots of chatter about how absurd older parenting styles and rules and trends were. Some of it comes with comments that we've now "figured it all out" or "science has evolved." While that's true for some sunjects, thankfully, there's bound to be stuff we do or say or believe now that isn't going to age well. So let's guess, what comments will we naively make about the rearing of our grandchildren that will make our children cringe and pen horror stories about us in future Reddit?

I don't want my daughter to be an only child exactly as much as I don't want to have another baby.

I want to have two children. Pregnancy absolutely sucked. My husband has zero interest in adopting. I'm 17 months PP and I have PTSD from the third trimester as well as recovery (2nd degree tear that did not heal and required stitches 4 additional times). I had polyhydramnios and it was not diagnosed due to lack of medical care during Covid, not that a diagnosis would have mattered much, but maybe I would have understood what was happening and been less traumatized. I'm 33 so nervous about the clock running out. I'm sure many others have felt this way. What did you end up choosing and why?

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My kid stole my Apple ID

This asshole racked up THOUSANDS of dollars in fucking Roblox purchases. Has this happened to anyone else? Did Apple give you any money back after you explained the situation?

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6 week old settles on OH but not me?

Just wondered if anyone else has a similar experience, basically my son rarely settles on me for cuddles. Very occasionally he will lie face down on my chest with my arms wrapped around him but 90% of the time he just starts wriggling and eventually whining/crying. He loves to fall asleep face down on my OH’s chest though which makes me very jealous! I EBF (son has a voracious appetite and often cluster feeds) and he usually falls asleep on me after a feed, however as I feed him on a pillow he tends to stretch out on the pillow with his tummy against my chest and his head in my palm, which doesn’t feel like a proper cuddle but it’s better than nothing I guess. I’ve heard that EBF newborns can smell the milk on their mothers which is why they struggle to settle- do you think there’s any truth to this? Trying not to take it personally…

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My baby is about to be 3 weeks old I’m wondering if anyone has any advice or just wants to share what helped them most at this stage?

Tips on staying healthy, things we can do with baby, milestones, something you did daily that made all the difference, books you read, anything really! We are first time parents and just want to soak up every moment and try anything that will make our baby’s life and ours the best it can be!

Anyone homeschool their kids?

My son is only 19 months so he's not school aged yet. But I become more attracted to the idea of homeschooling as time goes on. I just don't really like or value traditional education and think it's counterproductive for most kids and wanted to pick some brains.

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“Could you get me something to eat?”

Said to me by my husband this morning when I walked into our room at noon and he was just waking up. Why is this infuriating? We have three small children and I’m babysitting two other children today. Three under 2 years old, and Two under 8 years old. I just repeated “you have to be joking. You have got to joking.” while I walked out of the room. This has been a major ongoing issue so I’m not even surprised. Just disappointed.

Pregnant w/ 2nd baby, spouse struggling

So I’m pregnant with our second child - it was a huge surprise as it took us four years to conceive our first child (4.5 years old) and we weren’t trying at all. At first he seemed pretty excited but lately it’s become gloom and doom… he says he’s not excited, he makes remarks about how he thinks he may be nicer to our firstborn than our second, he’s overall negative about what’s happening. Has anyone had this experience? I admit I’m scared about a second too, especially as unplanned and unexpected as this baby is, but he is acting like it’s the end of the world.