Forum: Parenting

please keep ur fingers crossed and big hugs to me beause i going to find out weather iam pregnent or not if live chat on please ask me. iam so scared and nurvous. please relpy ASP first time becommming a mum and i dont kow weather iam keeping it or not

Can anyone help with some tips for how i can toilet train my kid? She's a year and half now and always wearing diapers and she's always having nappy rashes.

Hi everyone, I need baby gift ideas for two seperate friends who are both having girls. One gift needs to be reletively suitable for a newborn and the other for around 3-6 months old(something she can grow in to). Pink for the newborn would be great but are clothes the best thing or something else? HELP- I HAVE NOT GOT A CLUE! :thumb: BB x

If you could give parents 3 rules/guidelines/top tips, what would they be? (Following on from chat)

Americans are going a bit nuts over this.http://http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1370930/Parents-fury-totally-inappropriate-breastfeeding-doll-young-girls-goes-sale-U-S.html Sorry about link, was only one i could find from uk. What are peoples views, particularly parents? I would offer my opinion but i'm genuinely unsure what that is really. Despite knowing all the good stuff...

I have got about 14 1/2 weeks left and the closer it is getting the morn I am shitting myself!! I am totally clueless when it comes to babies and starting to have a massive panic about what you do with them lol, this is supposed to be the most natural thing in the world but I don't understand anything!! For example I don't know exactly what i need for the baby past a car seat, somewhere for...

A mother who I follow on Twitter @YoungMummyUK (I thought she was a young mum, but turns out it's just her surname lol) recently told me about this - http://www.imama.tv/ I was looking for resources after a convo with Ella and thought it might be useful for all of you to see. Let me know what you think of it. :) Or maybe you've seen something else that's better?

I think Arctic Roll will particularly appreciate this, because he first mentioned the book. Go the Fuck to Sleep - read by Samuel L. Jackson is free on Audible (even for existing users). Win.

Is anyone else suffering with their little darlings wanting to be up with the early birds? So far we have tried, longer day time naps, shorter day time naps, no day time naps, early bedtimes, late bedtimes - all to no avail. Shouty Madam wants to be up at 4am EVERY DAY as soon as she hears the birds outside. Short of waging war on the avian population I am unsure as to what else we can do. ...

Im due with my first in October :) Still seems strange and scary but also exciting at the same time! How many has everyone else got? xx

Does anyone else use them? Madam has jst outgrown her size 1's and I am after suggestions/recommendations for size 2's before I purchase. For her size 1's we used a mixture of terry towelling squares, Mio Bambinos, Motherease wraps and Eccobot bamboo nappies and fleece wraps.

6th of june is fast approaching and whilst I'm horridly scared, I'm excited as well. I cant resist the urge of buying stuff like this when I see it, all for the benefit of the baby!

This might seem really childish to some people, but I can't be the only one that's told a porky to a child? most of the time, my brothers know I'm lying because whatever I'm saying is deliberately outrageous, and we have a good giggle about it. But every now and then, a real corker slips through their radar and I'm feeling a bit too mischievous to tell them. We (I say we, I don't know who...

http://him.uk.msn.com/sex-and-dating/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=156391220 I just wondered what people's views on the above were. I am 22 and at the moment really don't want kids and after reading the above, can't see myself changing my mind like everyone tells me I will when I get older!

Whatever kind of parents it may be... Since it's a brand new forum I thought it might be a good idea to get some glimpse into how many there are here. I've got a 5 year old step daughter and am pregnant with my first child, a boy due in January :)

That mini-ninja is 13 today? :shocking: He is actually nearly the right age for this place :d

Seasoned bottle feeders, throw me a bone here! I'm in the process of weaning Superbaby onto formula because I go back to work soon (boo hoo) and am finding the whole process of preparing it a gigantic ballache. I refuse to believe that everyone boils the kettle then waits 30 mins, etc, etc for every feed because you'd end up just not having any life, so help me out. Which shortcuts are safe to...

Story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12180052 Is this affecting anyone else? What are your views? Did you wait to wean till 6 months? I say affecting, but really it's too late for me, Superbaby is 6.5 months and and in the process of being weaned already (started weaning at 5-and-a-bit months after doing my own research when HV refused to contemplate any eventuality except exclusive...

Does anyone have/know anyone who has experience of foster caring? I've been considering it for about a year now and have tried to research it as fully as possible on the internet, but (and I know this is going to sound silly) all I can find on it is really positive information! There are lots of videos and resources put out there by fostering agencies which give you the general gist and...

All is ok, and the mrs will be having a boy in june :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

So, Is there anywhere I can go online which is/is like mumsnet or netmums, but where I wouldn't get my head bitten off for being a man? However not just netdads as I think a lot of things I'd have questions about would likely require a womans perspective.

Has anybody seen this story? I think it's getting proper coverage tomorrow, my mother told me about it as she's a mumsnetter. Riven is a mumsnetter who has a severely disabled daughter who needs 24 hour care. Riven talked to David Cameron (before he was PM) on a live chat about it, and he ended up going to her house to discuss how the nhs can improve respite services (DC's firstborn having...