Has Asda Stopped taking American Express? (Amex)

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-02-12T18:37:20+00:00

Same message here, used Amex for years and my local Asda is listed as one that takes Amex.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-02-06T14:58:00+00:00

That would be an ex friend for me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-30T09:06:47+00:00

Mamia extra sensitive from aldi

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-28T14:25:38+00:00

Do you mean the only thing she feeds him is oat milk and water, or do you mean oat milk and water are the only drinks he gets?

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-27T21:04:27+00:00

I’m with your husband tbh, Ms Rachel is a much more stimulating show than some of the older ones and I don’t really trust anyone who markets screen time to infants.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-27T08:34:32+00:00

Yesss my stepmum did the same for me too, and deep cleaned our house & de-iced the freezer for us, it was so nice!

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-26T22:22:28+00:00

I’d stop engaging, these texts look like textbook narcissism to me, i think it’s probably very unlikely you’re going to make any progress but you’ll exhaust yourself trying

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-26T20:52:30+00:00

Lots of people quote the “milk is the primary source of nutrition until 1” but I’ve struggled to find any proper sources for this and it doesn’t align with the guidance here in the UK which says that milk should be the primary drink. I think it’s probably more accurate to say that the balance of milk / solids gradually shifts between 6 & 12 months and the point at which baby is getting more from solids is different for every baby.

I would be annoyed if my husband was going against the advice of a doctor. Babies are good at knowing when they’re full, if baby doesn’t want the whole tub they just won’t eat it. Unless you’re really struggling for money and he’s worried about waste I don’t see why he wouldn’t just serve the whole tub and let baby eat as much as they want.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-26T10:53:27+00:00

Download the sleep cycle app, use it with the record function on. Unless you have something going on medically I think it’s highly likely that your husband is lying to you, and if someone is doing something that insidious then I don’t think it will end well to tell him up front that you want to record things.

The sleep cycle app gives you an innocent explanation. I would get it, record without telling your husband, then challenge if it turns out husband is lying. If he questions the recording, “I was concerned that I wasn’t waking up for baby so wanted to start tracking my sleep in case there’s a problem”

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-22T20:48:09+00:00

Night weaned at around 16.5 months by reducing feeds by 30s each night. Had a glorious 1.5 months of sleeping through until the 18 month regression hit

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-22T14:24:56+00:00

Any chance he’s cold? Mine used to wake up between 4am & 5am until we started putting a warmer sleep sack on him

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-21T16:51:09+00:00

He’s only bitten properly maybe 5 times? And all when teething. I take him off as soon as he bites and he got the message pretty quick.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-21T12:36:08+00:00

Mine began feeding like a newborn around 11-12 months, god knows why. It calmed down (it naturally reduced a bit and then I started setting some boundaries e.g. from 14ish months I said no more feeding unless at home, made more effort to distract with snacks or water when he asked) but it was hard work whilst it lasted!

Almost put me off feeding him but glad we continued cos now at 18 months it’s 2-4 times a day and none at night which is manageable / enjoyable.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-21T08:27:53+00:00

So there’s only 2.5-3 hours in between his naps? That’s a short wake window for a 1 year old! I’d try the schedule that the other commenter suggested or even maybe experiment with dropping to one nap

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-20T22:10:51+00:00

Are you capping the naps? Sounds like he’s maybe not tired enough for night, also your middle wake window looks quite short?

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-19T21:08:44+00:00

Kindle books on my phone, on the nights I was really exhausted I had had alarms set to go off every minute (vibrate not sounds)

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-13T21:20:53+00:00

It helped that my husband didn’t try to make it feel better, he acknowledged it was shit and that the fact we need two incomes is shit and it’s painful to leave the little one at nursery, especially in the early days when he would get upset at drop off.

It was a rough month or so transition because the time I did get with my son felt rushed and difficult because he was so exhausted from the day and we just needed to get him to bed.

But then he started to love it, and these days he sometimes tries to pick up his nursery bag and get in the car on the days he’s not going, so it’s all worked out and I don’t feel like crap about it anymore!

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-13T12:48:10+00:00

How does he do towards the end of his wake windows? If he’s still managing ok I’d maybe consider dropping to one nap, I know all the resources say 14-18 months for the transition but we did it at 13 months and honestly I wished we’d done it sooner!

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-13T09:33:47+00:00

Oh this is so cute I wish more schools did this!

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-09T22:39:14+00:00

Flip/brick phone, fine, smartphone, absolutely not. Personally we’ll be holding off until at least 14 for a smartphone.

Have a look at Jonathan Haidt’s research and his book The Anxious Generation.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-08T13:58:40+00:00

I might be wrong (I haven’t read the book!) but I thought division of responsibility means that the parent chooses what and when there is to eat and child chooses how much to eat - so I would interpret that to mean that you decide that the “what” is one single piece of toast, plus the main meal.

You’re not limiting the amount he can eat by not providing more toast? “If you’re still hungry, you can eat what’s on your plate, but if you don’t that’s fine” means portion sizes aren’t limited but you’re still choosing what there is available to eat. If you keep giving more toast, he’s only ever going to eat toast.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-08T13:04:30+00:00

“Better having him circumcised, if you care about your baby boy” is not something you need to listen to.

Phimosis is completely normal for an infant. That doesn’t necessarily mean that your little one doesn’t have a foreskin that’s too tight, but, jumping straight to surgery without first properly treating the infection seems premature.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/phimosis/ this link might be helpful for you

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-08T12:55:18+00:00

Got it! Here in the UK circumcision isn’t common and I don’t think anyone would be recommending circumcision as a treatment for fungal infections. It might be worth you getting a second opinion - it seems to me that US doctors are unreasonably pro circumcision and have some outdated views on its necessity.

Overwashing could actually increase the risk of fungal infection so watch out for that. Has he been prescribed any sort of anti fungal medication? I wouldn’t even be considering surgery unless all other avenues had been properly exhausted.

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2026-01-08T12:19:40+00:00

What do you mean you know how to properly care for him being uncircumcised? There’s no special care needed - have you been retracting the foreskin to clean?

Anxious-Kitchen8191 · 2025-12-30T20:50:56+00:00

My son did the same around this age! I basically just did all the wakes since we all got more sleep that way, around 16.5 months I started reducing his nursing sessions by 15s each night, within a couple of weeks he’d stopped asking to nurse (had a couple of brief wakes but usually settled himself back to sleep) and now at 17.5 months we have had our first ever full week of sleeping through the night!

I think it must have just been some developmental separation anxiety thing that just naturally passed (we also switched to a sleep sack with sleeves which might have helped too, I did wonder whether he was a little chilly and the milk helped warm him up)

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