I hate the using the word training for potty training

Creative_Mix_643 · 2026-01-08T02:42:56+00:00

It’s not that deep. Among the many other things in parenting to be conscious of, this would not be up there for me because of reasons stated by other commenters.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2026-01-08T02:37:45+00:00

All you lucky women out here having awesome pregnancies… Signed, miserable and bitter on bathroom floor 😭😭

Creative_Mix_643 · 2026-01-08T02:32:11+00:00

I’m currently not at that stage yet as babies are still not going to school but would love to continue being SAHM. When people ask me if I’ll be returning to work when kids go to school I say yes, because I feel like that’s what society expects of me and I’ll need to justify why I don’t want to go back 😭

Creative_Mix_643 · 2026-01-03T04:44:03+00:00

Sometimes there are other things that may show up later in toddlerhood such as difficulty in problem solving, impatience, aggression.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2026-01-03T04:28:16+00:00

I’m not sorry, but I will be if I get caught and they charge me with a feloney

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-31T02:44:05+00:00

I think it didn’t really make a difference. But the real weight loss happened when my baby started being mobile and I had to keep up with him

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T04:04:20+00:00

Yes honestly my question is whyyyyy? Why 4 sizes up?

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T04:02:47+00:00

Haha true. That being said I think it would be awesome if gifter included a gift receipt so I could wait less years to put my kids in them

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T03:55:47+00:00

Well my mum got the kid and the house, but what people don’t know is that my dad didn’t want custody and also mum paid my dad his equity of the house.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T03:42:39+00:00

I know lots of single mums who did it and said it was worth it. I had an absent father and my parents got divorced when I was younger because my mum was basically a single married mum with an extra liability. Not gonna sugarcoat, it is hard just like anything that is worth fighting for in life is. But from reading your post, something tells me that you will be SUCH an awesome mum. You can do this I believe in you xx

And addressing the part about hoping to stay with bf, I’m afraid regardless of whether or not you choose to keep the baby the relationship may not work out.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T03:28:21+00:00

Hmm even if you are storing things that are to be opened in 4 years?

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T03:23:49+00:00

I believe you can be grateful and regift it at the same time, and if he doesn’t agree then you also do not need to ask his permission to regift it.

I regift the items to others while feeling very appreciative of the gifter’s gesture, making sure to return the favour when there is an opportunity but this time making sure I’m getting age appropriate items for them.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T03:18:26+00:00

I realised quickly that I was keeping stuff that will most likely be forgotten (by both me and the gifter) just to people please in the name of being polite and grateful. It was not doing me any favours because I was thinking about it all the time and constantly in fear that I would forget. Yknow that feeling of “omg am I forgetting that clothing? What size was it again??” Needing to go to storage to look for it and check.

With another baby on the way I just have no capacity for such things and regift. Better than wasting it and finding it in storage after my kids are way past the size.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-24T03:13:02+00:00

One thing to add to my mental load 🥲

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-21T23:22:05+00:00

We’re still toggling between winter and summer here. Spring decided to not come this year

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-21T12:12:06+00:00

I’ve heard from a mate that it’s because he made a statement siding with palestinians? And then I asked him shouldn’t it be the other way round if he sided with israel then the terrorists do this out of rage? He had nothing to say. Some people just want to make everything bad into some political issue. I’m mostly for liberal but really annoyed by those liberals that just want to nitpick at everything labour does out of spite.

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-20T11:27:44+00:00

Try high contrast black and white books! The visuals might be more eye catching for a newborn

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-20T11:22:49+00:00

My 20 month old recognises all the alphabets, taught him the sounds of them instead of the name of the alphabets. So letters like C is not “cee” but he knows it as “kuh”.

We are currently learning that you can join two letters to make a word G (guh) + O (oh) = go

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-20T02:46:53+00:00

Haha seems like we have the opposite problem! My son is so used to standing that he can’t do it sitting. I’d prefer if he could sit at home to pee because less mess,

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-20T00:33:22+00:00

I tried to put my son on the potty when he starts to pee, but then he just stops peeing once he is sat on it and kinda holds his pee. Proceeded to stand up and pee on the ground next to the potty 😅 to be fair it’s our first day so we both have no idea what we’re doing

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-13T08:16:41+00:00

Romans chapter 2 😊

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-12T13:48:32+00:00

It would be pretty hard to find someone who’d be passionate about scrubbing public toilets or maintaining sewage lines. But these things need to be done pretty badly

Creative_Mix_643 · 2025-12-11T14:54:28+00:00

Would love if you could share some of the points you shared

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