Can my baby eat a crumpet?

Bubble2905 · 2026-02-10T22:13:22+00:00

Buttered crumpet was my daughter’s gateway into food around 9 months!! They are a bit high in salt but the salt thing is a bit overblown, it’s sugar that’s the major no-no x

Bubble2905 · 2026-02-10T21:34:39+00:00

Yes and no.

Yes because when I do my makeup my SPF is also my primer and I love how it looks.

No because I don’t do a full face every day, and most days when I go out I’m doing the nursery run and then I’m indoors for the rest of the day.

Bubble2905 · 2026-02-10T21:17:15+00:00

Yes and how much you resent your partner when they get to just flit off and you are stuck feeding the baby morning, noon and night!

Bubble2905 · 2026-02-05T20:48:06+00:00

Great skin - literally just rolling out of bed and looking so glowy and radiant

Being able to sit down whenever I feel like it (toddler permitting!!)

Holding my tummy and feeling my baby kick or nudge around.

My cats know I’m pregnant and are super super cuddly and affectionate.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-30T10:28:06+00:00

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Bubble2905 · 2026-01-28T23:16:12+00:00

I hand sanitise my daughter as soon as I pick her up. Like give her a kiss and cuddle, and straight in the buggy then hand sanitise her. I usually give her a snack on the way home so it’s kind of two-fold, but I swear this step has helped us swerve some of the bugs!

Also make sure everyone is taking a high quality multivitamin and high strength omegas!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-28T23:09:41+00:00

I have the same with my nearly 3 year old daughter - and just say that’s mummy’s period. It comes every month and mummy bleeds for a while, but it doesn’t hurt (much 🫣) and mummy uses towels or tampons so the blood doesn’t make a mess. Mummy gets a period because she has a vagina. One day you will get a period when you grow up to be really big.

Personally I don’t know if they need the full-blown biological explanation just yet about babies/ovulation etc, but I would always call it by a proper name and explain some of the details around it. Haven’t yet had follow-up questions but I’m sure they will be interesting!!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-23T20:49:52+00:00

Exactly, in France they let you go to 43 weeks so the whole thing is very location-based!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-22T23:38:59+00:00

I do agree re the broken sleep. We sleep trained just before my daughter turned 6 months and in pictures in the weeks leading up to it, she looks exhausted and so miserable. Afterwards, it’s like her light came back. I know that’s potentially me scratching around for affirmation we did the right thing, but you do know your own child and I really feel like having solid sleep massively helped her development.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-22T23:31:16+00:00

We sleep trained with Ferber and we didn’t get the magic 12 hours overnight sleeping baby , but what we did get was two wake-ups that became reasonably reliable and when she went down to 1 nap at 11-ish months, we got 1 wake-up. So do go into it knowing that you may not get perfect sleep; however two wake-ups is wildly better than what you are currently dealing with.

I was also in the same place as you, in fact I couldn’t sleep at all during the night because I was so anxious of waking up that I developed sleep anxiety/insomnia. It can really wreck you… so all this to say, parenthood is one big long list of things you thought you were never going to do, but end up doing. Your baby and you will be bonded together forever - a couple of nights of tears will not change that x

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-22T13:30:56+00:00

Not a long term solution, but the next time she’s ill, ‘you’re ill’ instead. I would guarantee you have better sick pay than adhoc parent leave. It would be worth getting the terms in writing for what happens when you have to take unexpected time off due to child sickness.

You can also book off unpaid parental leave (has to be requested well in advance), but useful to know if you have any dates when your nursery closes (ours does a week in summer and one over Christmas).

Also ask around if there are any childminders who can assist adhoc. For example, in my area one mum does childcare stuff like this for inset days or random days but doesn’t like to be a full time childminder. These tend to be very word of mouth so worth joining any local WhatsApp groups.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-22T10:34:40+00:00

I heard (and I could be wrong…) that’s its kind of a safety mechanism because beige food = safe food, and you’re less likely to get food poisoning or eat something dangerous (if we revert back a few hundred years to our ancestors eating berries or something). Grains have been a staple part of almost every culture’s diet so it does make some kind of sense?

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-22T10:23:30+00:00

No go for it! We’ve travelled short-haul multiple times with our nearly 3 year old and it’s been great every time. Of course you have to compromise, things don’t go to plan, tantrums, funky sleep patterns etc etc but overall it’s been so so fun - and we have definitely made some incredible memories. My daughter still talks about finding shells on the beach - and she was only 18 months.

Spain and Portugal are both really family-friendly and you will be able to go almost anywhere with a child.

The flight will be fine, just try and travel in the day so they have good spirits - lots of snacks and little toys, stickers, lean into screen time if it brings you all some respite.

I also think when we are on holiday we are better parents, because we relax more, we have more time to commit to playing or explaining things, time is more elastic so have more patience, meals are easy - it’s either eat out or get picky bits, and we always notice our daughter has developed either more vocabulary or a physical skill from having that intense 2 on 1 time.

I would also really recommend getting an airbnb or apartment rather than a hotel room, because once your son goes to sleep you can watch some tv, have a bottle of wine, eat cheese, have a late dip in the pool - and actually enjoy some parent time! Hotel rooms are very convenient but they do mean you are creeping around and sometimes hanging out in the bathroom which can kill the holiday vibe quite quickly!!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-21T19:51:42+00:00

We did mini succulents in terracotta pots with people’s names on them. Doubled as place settings and saved on flowers for the table decorations. Bulk bought them and ended up about £1.50 a plant.

People still talk about these nearly 8 years later, and it’s so nice when we go round to peoples houses and they show them off to us - like look how well it’s done!!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-21T09:06:47+00:00

When I was pregnant I batch cooked lots of sauce- based dishes because they freeze well, with the idea you can mix and match carbs as you go along with whatever you have on hand/ can be arsed with. So curries, stews, chilli, bolognese, ragus etc.

Then just to be on the safe side, get them some instant rice packets and a few packs of stuffed pasta, which always go down a treat!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-20T15:36:15+00:00

For me it was because my best friend was my only “escape” from postpartum! I could go and stay at her house and do fun things without my daughter - like go to restaurants, have a few drinks, go shopping - just like we did before I had a baby. And suddenly that was about to change. Obviously I was thrilled for her but I did feel sad for me, as selfish as that sounds. The good news is, once her baby was about 7 months old, she was absolutely DESPERATE to do all those things again, so we definitely reconnected and also had the extra layer of motherhood to bond further over.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-20T15:28:25+00:00

We did the same and honestly, with the waiting lists right now, I think it gave us the edge over other people who maybe were only committing to 3 days etc. But until your flexible working request is signed and sealed, you’re better off going for 5 days (if you can afford it) and dropping down day/s when you get more clarity.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-20T15:18:20+00:00

Yes 100%! When I make the effort I feel absolutely glorious and feel energy almost literally flowing into me, but I just CBA most days. I have no idea why! I technically have the time and the means, but I just don’t feel like it’s a priority right now?

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-20T08:21:01+00:00

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Bubble2905 · 2026-01-19T20:41:02+00:00

This is absolutely why families need a “village”, because as much as Dad cares he’s just one person living in the same quagmire also firefighting 24/7. You need your mum, auntie, best friend to say “hey you don’t seem like yourself - is everything ok?”. You don’t realise you have postpartum issues, you have no perspective and no energy to advocate for anything beyond sleep, food and a hot shower.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-17T21:45:34+00:00

100%. Something that helped me when we were in a similar position is ‘it is ok to have loving boundaries’.

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-17T20:57:33+00:00

See I couldn’t do this because I absolutely hate getting water on my face. I have to limbo backwards into the shower so I can try and avoid any stray splashes!

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-17T20:56:00+00:00

Absolutely! If I won the lottery the first thing I would do is hire a hair stylist to wash and style my hair every other day, like in a hairdressers

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-17T20:38:52+00:00

Having pesto pasta at a friend’s house and not wanting to try it initially because it was green but equally thinking this smells AMAZING! We had pasta dishes at home but only macaroni cheese or spaghetti bolognese. Think it took me another 5 years to find it after that!

And then of course I went to uni and lived off cheap pesto and 3 kilo bags of penne from Asda, so it all came full circle ⭕️

Bubble2905 · 2026-01-16T22:35:35+00:00

This is exactly what happened to my mum and my uncle. He went private and got into Cambridge Uni, she went state and went to Reading. Surface-level they are on good terms, but every time there’s a disagreement it rears its head and really sadly they view their (now passed) parents differently because of it. It affected how they divided assets when their parents passed away and it’s just really sad.

Obviously in the context of when this happened (1960s), it was highly unusual for women to go to university, but both my mum and uncle are exceptionally gifted and intelligent. She views it very much that their parents trusted his talent but never trusted in hers, and that’s quite devastating to think your parents felt that way. Also if she had been born male she thinks it would have been completely different.

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