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I feel like I’m losing my sanity! My little one is 1 month old and is just constantly screaming. She’s barely sleeping and when she’s awake she won’t settle even in my arms. Has anyone else experienced this? ANY advice to save my sanity would be really appreciated!

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LO still in shrieking mode 🫠

LO is 6.5 months and has been in shriek mode for about 6 weeks. I'm talking ear-splitting shrieking when she gets bored or over-excited. Her favourite time to do it is as soon as she wakes up at 5am, she's my little cockerel 😂 (neighbours must hate me). I know it's all part of their speech development but I've…

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Kissing babies

Hi everyone, my baby is 4.5 and was wondering if it’s safe to let people outside our household kiss him on the face now? The reason why I ask it’s not because I want to, but because I’m about to go see my partners mum and his little siblings (12, 10, 8 years old) and she has a very strong difficult personality and w...

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Can babies sense dad if never met them?

My BD is meeting his son for the first time on Sunday and was wondering if LB will be able to sense it’s his dad? He never heard him in the womb and he wasn’t there for the birth so will he be able to sense it’s his dad? He’s nearly 9 weeks

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Speech delay

Anyone else’s little one only saying mama/ dada still? It’s really stressing me out now, we read on a daily basis, do flash cards, even name veggie/animal toys etc in the bath to try and help. I feel so lost and like I’m failing him.

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Still unable to get into sitting position!!

My LO is almost 14 months, was a late sitter, is now confidentially crawling, pulling himself up and starting to cruise, but he has always hated sitting and would prefer to be on all fours. He still can’t get into sitting position from crawling so I have to place him sitting, which doesn’t last long before he goes o...

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Anyone else’s baby CONSTANYLY whinging and moaning

It’s mentally draining me hearing my little boy moan and whinge all day long. He doesn’t need anything but it’s just all dayyyy long

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1 & a half year old keeps waving to someone who isn’t there 😩

We moved house a couple of weeks ago & my LO keeps randomly waving at nothing..at first I put it down to him just being a toddler, but today I asked who he was waving at and he said ‘dada’.. he calls all men ‘dada’. Is my new house haunted, or is he just being a funny toddler (please tell me it’s just something tod...

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Intoeing/pigeon toed

Can I get this checked by a gp/doctor or is this just normal? It does cause child to trip over sometimes but it's not a serious thing so don't know if I can get it checked or not

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Carpet friction burn crawling

My girl is obviously wearing a lot of short clothes with it being warmer weather. We have carpet. She crawls. I've noticed the last couple of days her knees are quite red, presumably from the friction against the carpet so much (she's constantly on the move). I have a playmat in her pen but she prefers to be out of ...

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Screaming noises non stop

Does anyones baby do this? I dont know if this is normal or not. He does this day and night. My ears hurt...

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Why is my child more difficult than others?

I guess I'm just looking for some moral support about this. My little boy is very strong willed and I'm fairly sure we have hit the terrible 2s (he's 20 months) I know everyone thinks their toddler is difficult, but mine really is more difficult than others I've seen. I've just had such a drama before leaving a cara...

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My daughter hates hats.

My 10m old daughter freaks out when I put a hat or a hood on her, like cries and throws herself on the ground, full on tantrum. What do I do?

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Not doing enough?

Does anyone feel their not doing enough with there baby or see others posting things of what there doing, going etc and think i dont do that. As my LG is reaching 1 any games we play or stuff i try to teach her all that she does it stick anything i gave her in her mouth, she doesnt really play shell crawl to somethi...

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Angry jack jack baby

Hello moms, I need help do any moms have children with anger problems my 2yr old gets pissed like super pissed. If you guys have any recommendations PLS HELP. Thank you god bless you moms cause jeez it’s hard.

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Anyone else's baby not talking much yet?

Mine only says baba/mama/papa etc. but so many kids his age are already making up two word sentences. I am a little worried to be honest. He is totally healthy and active otherwise so is it just something that will come with time?

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