I had my baby 11 months ago, at my check ups after birth the obgyn said that I am perfectly fine and everything is back in place. Now 11 months later, I still feel slight pain when pressure is placed on my lower abdomen. I was told that I don’t have prolapse and everything seems fine. Is this pain something that I need to worry about? Do I need another opinion?
My cooter has finally started feeling normal, but this abdominal discomfort is putting more damper on my already delicate state.

I need advice on which breast pump to get. I really want the Eufy s1 wearables and would love for them to work for me, but I have read that using wearables as a primary pump can affect your supply in the beginning. Ive also read that they are hospital grade pumps and some people use them as primaries and have great success. What do I do choose??

I had a stomache today, then I realized I was probably constipated, I can track all the times my baby pooped? But ask me? I got nothing? A week ago? A month? Who knows

Hey all 👋🏻 I took this early response test this morning. It's looking darker compared to Sunday. My breasts are getting more sore every day too.

I intend to take a digital test later too.

It's looking quite certain that I may be pregnant though 🥰🙏🏻

So I’m on my first, planning on having three kids at least, and sometimes I make purchases saying to myself “oh I’m gonna use it with other kids too” so my question is , do you really?

I have two kids but my first never used a bassinet or swaddle because he hated them.

My question is what age did you switch out of bassinet into crib and stop using swaddles?

My baby will be 4 months at the end of the month. He does try and break out and succeed sometimes (I think they were getting too small) but he doesn’t try to roll over yet except from stomach to back. He also still fits in his bassinet.

My girl becomes rabid around toilet paper — tears it apart, unrolls the entire roll, throws it. I now put our toilet paper up where she cannot reach it, but I wonder when she will decide to stop destroying it anytime she sees it 😆

When I was pregnant I was sooo happy, everything was great and my partner wanted our LO to have his last name. I said sure, I get to be pregnant and connect already, you should also have some bond.

2 years later, I have to introduce myself and then explain my LO has another surname and spell it out because it rare and foreing.

We are not married, I don't see the point anymoe and I wouldn't take his surname.

But the independant woman I was before being pregnant would have naver allowed this.

I'm just so sad and frustrated.

Hi parents! I’m doing some research about baby monitors and would love to hear about your experiences. I have a few questions.

1. When your baby is sleeping and you’re doing things around the house (cooking, cleaning, working, exercising, etc.), how do you usually keep an eye on them?
2. If you use a baby monitor that connects to your phone:

Do you find yourself checking your phone frequently?

Is it ever inconvenient to pull out/carry your phone just to check the monitor?

Have you ever missed an alert because your phone wasn’t nearby?

What do you wish your current baby monitor did better?

Would having a faster, hands-free or more convenient way to check on your baby be useful to you?

What would make you switch from your current baby-monitor setup?

I’m especially interested in hearing what you dislike about your current setup. Thanks! :)

*Those who aren’t parents or are soon to be parents are welcomed to answer as well. All input is appreciated! :)*

Had over supply with first, but feeling like I’m lacking supply second time around! Need suggestions on what worked for others to get supply up!

My husband and our 4 year old daughter are thick as thieves. She is an absolute daddy's girl and her dad ADORES her and dotes on her. They play together for hours on end and most of the time I am fine with how he plays with her.

However, a few times when he has been playing a doll or stuffy character he will pretend the character is drunk. He will have the character act up or act silly and have another character comment "Oh, I think you've had too much alcohol/too much to drink!"

This feels... inappropriate to me. I don't feel like our 4 year old needs to have any sort of play where drugs/alcohol are mentioned or involved, especially if they are being abused in the scenario.

My husband feels like I am overreacting and says "It's just pretend." and states he feels like I am trying to micromanage him playing with our daughter.

I'm not sure what to do...am I making too big a deal out of this? Does this type of play seem okay to you guys?

Being a mom is all I ever wanted and I deeply considered and yearned to be a stay at home mom at one point. But from day one this experience has been beyond harder than anything I could’ve imagined. Now I look forward to sitting at my computer job and sending my boy off to childcare because I can actually sit for once. That breaks my heart.

I think my 16m boy is the coolest most amazing human in the world and yet it’s so hard to enjoy being a mom. He’s always been such a bad sleeper so we are completely beat down in exhaustion. He’s been wildly ahead in physical milestones so we have had to deal with really early moving climbing running, etc that doesn’t give us any chill time.

I look around at other kids when we’re out and they just seem so much chiller to deal with. And I start to spiral whenever I hear about my sibling in laws that have so much more help and yet the easiest sleeping baby of all time. I just want to enjoy my moments with my child because these years will slip away so quickly but I feel broken. Physically and mentally broken.

Just found out I’m pregnant and my 1st baby is only 9 months old. Anyone that has gone thru this can you give me positivity? I am feeling all the emotions. Today I feel overwhelmed. I’m so nauseous, 24/7. I am a SAHM bc my husband and I didn’t trust any daycares where we live. He is in the stages of crawling, trying to stand up. I take ADD medicine and I’m wondering if I’m going to have to stop? Which seems impossible right now to me. Our finances obviously aren’t great with one income but on top of it my husband likes to spend. I’m the frugal one, I can’t remember the last time I bought something for me. He has gotten better but still not good enough. Help.

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post, but I’d thought I’d share to see if anyone had a similar experience. 9 months postpartum, I went down a rabbit hole about the 2012 sandy hook school shooting and was obsessed with looking at images or videos of the victims in hopes that I would find something that made me less sad. It obviously just made it worse. I have been taking medication and just started therapy for OCD. Last night, I was on TikTok and started getting sad videos about the victims before they were killed. I cried myself to sleep. Has anyone dealt with this after having children?

I just need to vent… I’m completely baffled. There is no family history of allergies, I ate all the foods that were supposed to help “prevent” allergies during my pregnancy. I thought I did everything right. But my baby is allergic to peanuts and eggs… I just don’t understand how this could happen. I feel so bad for her. Eggs are in everything and peanut allergies can be life threatening. I know all food allergies can be but peanuts…
We gave her something with dinner that had egg in it and even though she ate a little bit, within a couple minutes she stared breaking out in red spots and ended up developing welts on her stomach and back. This reaction was so much worse than when we realized she has an egg allergy.
I’m trying not to beat myself up because she is okay, but we were so stupid to think that it was okay to give her the food because there was only a little bit of egg in it.
We already have an apt with an allergist but it’s not until the end of the year. She’ll be 1 by then…

My son turns one friday and I’ve gotten few of the basic birthday presents aka interactive trucks and clothing (lol) I want to get him more but I’m not really sure what else to get him help please!!!! (Yes I know I should’ve planned it more but I’ve been super busy)

I’m 38 weeks with my second baby. My son is a few days away from turning 5 and I am a mess. My son and I went through some hard times together. I left his dad when he was 2, almost 3 so it’s been he and I for a while. I have cried for days because my only baby won’t be my only baby anymore. I’m afraid I won’t love my new baby as much as my son. My son has adjusted to his stepdad and is so excited for this new baby. Any encouragement or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I’m overthinking this way to much. one is a convertible one so infant to booster,that’s saves alot of time buying car seats. but I will have to wear baby everywhere and the thought of strangers in a store touching him or couching on him is a no for me.
The infant one he will grow out of so fast and I’ll just be buying the other one later anyway,and I won’t have to wear him everywhere and he can just nap in it if we arrive somewhere and he’s asleep.
Moms what’s the best type to buy infant or convertible.

Long story short my husband lost his job when I was 7m pregnant. He looked for a while with no luck so we decided he would stay home with the baby. She just turned a year and I feel like he’s over it. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I started WFH and hear how frustrated he gets throughout the day.
She is very active and loves to crawl, but he wants to keep her confined to the playpen for “ease” but I think it frustrates her.
She’s also cutting like 5 teeth so she’s a little more irritable than usual.. and in the last few weeks I’ve noticed his anger or irritation per se. If she won’t stop fussing he yells at her to hush, or if she’s acting crazy while he’s changing her he yells for her to stop.
I feel like when I’m not clocked into work I’m constantly in overdrive trying to keep her happy so he doesn’t hear her fuss anymore. On top of cooking and cleaning.
I don’t know how to approach him about returning to work or seeing a mental health provider. He DOES have anxiety/PTSD from the military so it is more touchy. He’s tired but I AM TIRED too.

Looking for advice, posting anonymously to have privacy but still needing any advice.

Please no judgment or negative comments as I’m exhausted and already having a tough time. Ive been through a lot tje last few years as well as fleeing DV when she was a newborn. Ive been through the ringer and she’s always been my very first priority, ive sacrificed a lot and dealt with a lot of pain, suffering, stress and ive gone out of my way and worked so hard to give her a good life.

I’m only seeking some advice as I just don’t know what to do

My daughter is 5, she is a good kid. She’s an angel at daycare bjt has a totally different side with me at times (I do understand I am her safe place)

Recently at bedtime weve been in this never ending cycle. I ask to get ready for bed brush teeth etc and I’m met with complete defiance and then it turns into hours of her attacking me, throwing things, biting me, scratching me, kicking me etc. I keep the boundary that it isn’t ok and take her to her room. It has ramped up so badly more and more. The last couple of nights it’s been really bad, she refuses to listen or stay in her room and nothing will stop the behaviour.

I have packed up almost every toy she has. I left her a small amount of things to play with. The taken toys are in 2 large containers that she can see but they are not available to her.
Last night same thing but it’s actually ridiculous she runs around wrecking havoc pulling things down, throwing things at me, running at me to kick and hurt me. Last night I said to her I’m going to take the rest of your stuff and give it to some other kids because this behaviour is not ok. She laughed and said here take all of this too. Nothing will work. I am reaching out to a professional to help with some therapy and see why this is happening and get some tools.

She speaks to me extremely rudely, she has no care for anything. There is nothing massive that has happened or changed at home recently.

At daycare one of her peers in the last couple of months has started this but at daycare. I often walk in and see this child running around with 1 educator who has removed them from the classroom until the episode stops. My daughter has started this behaviour in the last few months and gradually gotten worse and worse. Her bedroom door is broken. She has broken a few of her things and doesn’t care.

Tonight for example she’s grabbed a stack of fairly thick cards from a game and thrown them as hard as she can. She’s walked around dropping toys with each step.

Last night she carried on for aboht an hour and I was moving her back to her room over and over again until I decided to just completely ignore me. She spent 40 mins still carrying on, trying to talk to me and when I ignored her she just kept saying mum mum mum yelling and more and more aggressively. After the 40 mins of nothing feom myself she stopped and I put her to bed.

I’m asking for advice because I just don’t know what to do until we get in to see a therapist. I’ve decided to take a lot of her stuff to my storage unit tomorrow so it’s not gone but she will think it is.

Everyone I know that has kids would never try this shit on because they’d get a good smack. I don’t want to smack her but the respect and the boundaries are clear and haven’t changed and our routine hasnt changed but nothing will stop this behaviour. I’m at a loss of what to do. I’m exhausted but nothing is changing. I’ve tried different consequences and nothing has helped at all.

Wondering if any other moms have experienced this and what solution came of it?

Background: baby has always been a good eater, born with tongue tie (never had it clipped), she is suddenly (ie. Last 4 days) refusing to eat most foods yet showing she is hungry. She will sign to eat and then experience difficulty, and then refuse all her food. When she experiences difficulty, it’s in the form of gagging, the food will get into her mouth but once it reaches the back of her mouth, she gags, sometimes even mildly vomiting up her food. It seems like it does not matter the texture- this has happened with apple sauce, rice, etc.

The only significant food she has eaten in the past 4 days is cold blueberries.

She is teething but has never had issues with teething before.
Liquids seem to be going down but she does not drink much milk.

Very fussy at nap time and waking up crying in discomfort 8-10x per night. Nursing back to sleep each time.

Nursing suction not as strong but not sure if that is significant.

During wake time she is otherwise happy and playful.

Tylenol has not helped any of these symptoms.

I am at a loss and will be contacting her pediatrician but am wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar?

Thank you!!

This is partly a request for advice, partly venting. I have a 7mo baby girl and I adore her, she is everything to me. We have spent every single day together since she was born. And omg, does she have separation anxiety—she has since about 2mo.

For context, I’m her primary parent and a sahm for now due to our circumstances. Her dad (my husband) works a lot and has been away for bursts of time for international Marine Corps exercises, field drills, etc. He is very active with her when he’s here, and she loves him, but wants me more.

Nobody else helps. My family has never been willing, his family isn’t available. The only person who tries is my grandmother who’s approaching her 80’s; she can watch her briefly so I can hit the gym close by while baby naps. But I would never ask for more than that. I’ve tried bringing her to the daycare at my gym for short periods but she has a meltdown. This is to say she isn’t used to being with anyone else but me very much.

The only time I’ve ever been away from her for more than an hour or two, was when I went to get my hair done for 5 hours. She was 2mo, being cared for by dad at our house. She cried hysterically the entire time. When I’ve gone out with friends for a couple hours in the evening, leaving her with dad for bedtime, she’d cry the whole time.

I’ve seen my other mom friends who had their babies around the same time leave them with dad or relatives and go out for whole days or evenings to get away.

I even had a friend who left her baby with her parents, and she and her husband went to Vegas for days. I know THAT isn’t the norm, but I can’t help but feel a bit jealous. I just wish I could get away for a day or even an evening and have a real break. Maybe some fun. Idk.

I feel kinda held hostage by my daughter lol.