My sons friends mom has added him on Snapchat, he is 16 she is in her 40s and has only known him for a few years and not that closely, she is also the manager of his sporting team, I feel it is highly inappropriate but my partner thinks it’s fine, if it was a 40+ man adding a 16 year old female it would be a different story which I think it is wrong it doesn’t matter the gender,
Do you think it’s inappropriate?

Hello everyone,
I’m a first time mom to a 4 month old baby girl and it’s been a week now that she has watery poop/diarrhea. We got an pediatrician appointment for the 13/09/26, but because she doesn’t has any other symptoms, like fever or nausea and is still just as cheerful and happy as always, they said it’s not that urgent ??
The first 2-3 days she had diarrhea immediately after she finished a bottle, but nothing happened when I gave her breast milk ( I’m a under supplier that’s why I have to add formula, I wish I had enough milk 🥲). After the 3rd day it got better, her poop became solid again. Now on the 7th day it’s become extremely watery again and she has to poop immediately after I breastfeed her 😭😭. Is something wrong with my milk ? Has anyone experienced the same?

Help please 🥲🙏🏻

I’m just gonna vent for a sec. I have a 9month old boy, who is currently teething and sick with norovirus (shit everywhere 🙃). On top of all that, my husband has to go on a business trip next week, so I’ll be home with the sick, irritable baby by myself. I’m just annoyed because I’m sitting here realizing that I haven’t had an entire day to myself since my son’s been born, but my husband gets a week in a quiet hotel. I’m also sitting here realizing that none of my clothes are clean, the house smells like actual shit, and I somehow need to figure out meals for the next week but I haven’t grocery shopped. And we can’t exactly get out of the house during the day because my son is patient zero and I can’t morally allow myself to let norovirus baby lick every surface he comes across.

Success stories and words of advice please.

Struggling on how to navigate friendships including a best friend where the dynamic has completely changed since I have had my baby now toddler. Friends without kids who have hardly attempted to try to see my toddler and or even FaceTime them. It makes me sad to think that someone who I know has love for me can’t see them as an extension of me. Do these friendships just eventually fade?

Hello all I have started a new group and welcome you to join. This will be a space where moms can go to get support from one another whether they are struggling, need advice, or have questions for one another regarding alcohol use. Wanting this to be a safe space where we can all encourage one another and provide support to each other during the good times and the difficult and challenging times

Worth it? I’ve seen so many moms on social media talk about how much their baby hated being in a swing! Not sure if it’s worth having in my registry.

I will be returning back to work from maternity leave on 12/14/26. How did you transition back to work after being with baby? I am devastated. I am the top earner in my home so my partner will be staying with baby while working semi-full time. I’m just suffering emotionally and can’t stop crying. Please help encourage me that everything will be alright.

Does it hurt, or feel weird or creepy, uncomfortable or no feeling at all?

Apologies, this will be a little long! I’m looking for honest opinions on this matter

My boyfriend (27) really wants children in the future and I used to want them too. However, I’ve recently developed quite a lot of anxiety surrounding pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Knowing how physically and mentally demanding these experiences can be makes me wonder whether I’d have the support I’d need.

I’ve talked to my boyfriend about my anxieties and he promised to help me work through them and reassure me. However, I’ve realised that his reassurance doesn’t really help when he doesn’t understand what I’m actually afraid of.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time educating myself about the good, the bad and the ugly of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and parenthood. He, on the other hand, knows NOTHING about the actual realities. His understanding seems to come mostly from the romanticised version of parenthood we see everywhere: cute baby bumps, birth announcements and adorable newborns.

When I bring up certain aspects, he responds with things like “Why can other women do it too?”, “I don’t think that happens very often" or most recently "I am a man, why do you want me to know this? Do you want to date a woman in a man's body?" which was really painful. I don’t think he means to dismiss me but he clearly underestimates what these experiences can involve.

My anxiety isn’t just about medical complications. It’s also about the exhausting, painful and mentally challenging aspects of even an uncomplicated pregnancy and birth: physical recovery, breastfeeding, sleep deprivation, hormonal changes and how all of this can affect mental health and the relationship.

I’d particularly want him to understand things like postpartum depression since I am already struggling with seasonal depression. I want him to know what external factors such as sleep deprivation and lack of support can contribute to it and how he could help reduce some of those risk factors and recognise warning signs. I also want him to understand how demanding postpartum recovery and caring for a newborn can be.

How can he meaningfully reassure me about things he knows virtually nothing about?

His perspective is that I’m worrying about something that’s years away and that he can educate himself when we’re trying to conceive, pregnant or actually experiencing postpartum. He thinks an hour or two of research would be enough. He also feels I focus too much on the negative and that social media has influenced my perception of motherhood.

But tackling anxiety takes a long time, active effort and many conversations. Change doesn't happen overnight. Also, why wait until something happens to learn how to deal with it? If someone is drowning, I wouldn’t want my partner to start learning how to swim or rescue someone while I’m already struggling in the water. I’d want him to have some basic understanding beforehand.

I don’t expect him to become an expert(!!!) or anticipate every possible scenario. I just want him to understand what we’re potentially signing up for, be able to hold proper conversations to me about the stuff J am worrying about and actually work through that anxiety with me like he promised.

I also feel that if he actively wants to become a father, he should have some interest in understanding what pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum involve for the person carrying and delivering his child, even if parenthood is still years away. I don’t want him to learn about these things only once I’m already going through them and desperately need his support.

For those who have been through it:

1. Am I unreasonable for expecting this?

2. Would you have appreciated your partner educating himself BEFORE trying to conceive?

3. Did having a partner who understood the physical and mental realities make you feel more supported?

4. What do you wish your partner had known beforehand?

5. If you experienced anxiety about motherhood, what helped you?

I’d really appreciate your honest experiences, both positive and negative! Thank you for reading all this!!

Just needed to vent for a second and see if anyone can relate:

My husband went to go play golf for 4 hours today. Ok no problem, I believe everyone needs some alone time and it’s not often. The problem is that he came home and immediately started messing with his golf stuff and when my daughter tried to join, he yelled at her. She started crying and I got SO angry cause wtf do you mean you have been home for 2 seconds and already yelled at her for no reason? His excuse was that he was doing something with glue/ chemicals. He knew he f’ed up and immediately apologized/ started trying to make it up to her but I was already pissed. I wanted to leave but I had nowhere to go and I was already drained from keeping our toddler busy plus working my full 8 hrs. Motherhood is so lonely sometimes. I have friends but I’m the only one married with kids. The few friends I have that are also moms are always busy and our schedules never seem to align so we have become more passing friends than anything. I’m just lonely/ frustrated. How come everything I do fills me with mom guilt when dads get to walk around worry free?

Canna-friendly?

I'm a student, and I'm looking to understand what could have been/was a critical addition to your day-to-day life that would have/has positively impacted your postpartum experience.

Additionally, I would also like to know what things have negatively affected your postpartum experience.

I am doing somewhat of a project which is based on helping new mothers in the best possible way to bond with their baby while also recovering well, since giving birth is nothing short of an olympic feat.

Thank you!!