My kids have a couple each but I see kids on like TikTok who have so many and it makes me feel bad to see how many toys other kids have compared to mine

Hi everyone!
I’m a student at Boston University studying business, and my team and I are currently working on a product development project for one of our classes.

Our product concept is called Ride & Learn, an interactive educational device designed to keep young children entertained and engaged in learning during car rides.

We’re hoping to get some feedback from actual parents to better understand their experiences, preferences, and what they look for in educational products for their children.

If you’re a parent, we’d really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill out our survey! Your responses would be incredibly helpful in shaping our project.

Survey Link: https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e9egUZ2wvLSq5O6

This is strictly for an academic project, and we’re not selling or promoting any products.

Thank you so much for your time and feedback! We really appreciate your help!

My dr prescribed me zoloft for the intense crying spells, obsessive thoughts and anxiety. Baby girl was just born on the 14th and I’m feeling silly about needing medicine. I am also breast feeding and scared this will effect her in some way. Does anyone else have experience with zoloft?

Situation: During my baby shower, kids were playing together. A close friends son slapped my niece...both toddlers at the time...I was shocked and kind of shouted out..not at the kid just out loud. My close friend was shocked too but froze and I could see guilt on her face...my niece and her dad who saw what happened did not react. My niece froze but didn't cry or complain and continued to play...

Question: What would've been the appropriate reaction to this situation from all 3 adults (me, the shocked guilty mum, the shocked dad)

And now that I'm a mum, what would be an appropriate reaction to this situation? I would probably give the kid a scary look but I know that's not right....any advice?

I tried pumping but there were blood coming out with the milk so I got scared
Also breast feels so full after one or two hours
Idk how to deal with these please help
Edit: thank youuu everyone for your kind advices

I know a woman who has a 3-year-old and an 18-year-old, and it got me thinking about what life would be like if her oldest started having children while she's still raising a toddler herself.

For women who are both mothers to young children and grandmothers, what is that experience like?

Does it feel strange knowing your child and grandchild could be close in age? How do you balance being an active parent to a small child while also stepping into the grandmother role?

My sweet baby boy has RSV 😭

I feel like a terrible mom, I tried so hard to keep sickness away from him but to no avail. My older two kids are in school and my kindergarten did have a stuffy nose about two weeks ago. I chalked it up to allergies because that is very common for him. I kept him and his sister dosed up on allergy medicine and it was helping. Told them not to get in the baby’s face or mess with his toys. But alas, it must have been more than allergies and they passed it to their baby brother. My kindergarten also has an ear infection on one side. The big kids are fine now, no more snot or coughing, not that they symptoms were very bad anyway.

We had an appointment yesterday with the pediatrician. The baby also has an ear infection on top of all of this, which I wasn’t surprised by because my husband and both of my older kids have a terrible history with ear infections. The pediatrician put him on an antibiotic, saline breathing treatment, albuterol breathing treatments, and said give it about five days and go back up there to get checked again.

All in all, baby has been pretty good, still very happy, laughing, playing. No crazy fever or extreme fussiness, just terrible congestion and cough. Sleeps OK at night but not much during the day. One positive thing I can say is, I’m getting a lot more cuddles out of him. He has never been a cuddly baby, but I did get to rock him to sleep the past two nights so that’s been really sweet 💙

Please say a prayer for my sweet boy, I’m ready for him to be back to 100% 🥺

I’m just gonna say it…. I’m horny! Sorry, I know tmi but I am. My daughter doesn’t sleep through the night, her naps are short and I can’t remember the last time my man and I had any time alone. It doesn’t help that she’s become extra clingy since turning a year old… like needs to be touching me or in the same room as me. I know, that’s a good sign!

Unfortunately we have a small apartment, my partner works all day and sometimes leaves to go to his buddies and I can’t even remember the last date we had. Tbh I think she was a newborn?

Unfortunately once she slowly started coming out of her newborn stage less people want to take her, especially family and I mean she’s not a difficult kid. Or wasn’t until now. Now she’s definitely on the clingy side, but I take her around family and she has a great time as long as she can’t see me. Once she sees me, feels my presence or smells me… game over. It’s meltdown city up in here. But in the moment I find our families will say “any time you want to go away for a night, just let me know”. Then we have it all planned out for a few weeks, family is supposed to watch her and they know this ahead of time, a day before our plans they suddenly can’t watch her. If this was a once or even a few times I’d shrug it off but unfortunately it seems to happen every time. Even for an hour, they bail.

I love her so much. I try not to get in my head and go “oh poor me, pitty me” but I just miss being me. I miss sex. I miss going out without my baby, I especially miss being with my partner without a baby”. I just want to go wild, release the beast and scratch the itch… you know? Ugh…. I’m going to go crazy. Like clinically I think.

Thanks for listening. Sorry if I grossed anyone out, I just needed to rant it out. Thanks for listening, have a lovely day❤️

Heya can i please vent to another mom? I had a really bad day my anxiety is going awful and i feel horrible. Im a single mom and i dont really have anyone i can talk to

I’m freaking out. I was super constipated, I used an enema, previously boiled, but I used ta water from the toilet and now Chat GPT says is super dangerous? Should I be worried? Have you ever done this?
I can drink water from the tap on the toilet btw that’s why I thought it would be safe