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I went no contact with my mother when I had my first baby, I am low contact with my grandma since this because every time I see her she tries to force me to have a relationship with my mom.

I broke no contact with my mom (for my grandma) briefly around Easter, and when I went to my moms house it was like a shrine of my daughter. Every other photo was taken down. 1 picture of each of her other grandkids, and tons of pictures of my daughter. Every picture my grandma has ever taken or I have ever sent her is plastered all over my mother’s house. It made me extremely uncomfortable.

I feel as though if I don’t have a relationship with you, you don’t need pictures of my child all over your house. Especially when she’s been possessive over my child and telling everyone she’s “entitled to a relationship with her grandchild no matter what”.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? How do you address it?

Hi there everyone, I’m 24f and have recently gone no contact with my mother after how she behaved after I had my first baby.

She’s recently taken to facebook to air her grievances (I could make a whole other post about this, I wish I could share her posts here because some of the things she says seriously need to be unpacked by someone completely unrelated…) and she keeps making “you don’t see it now but one day you will” and “you don’t regret it now but one day you will” comments.

I’m writing this minutes after she makes yet another facebook post about me.

I know I’m young, I know I’m not the smartest person, I struggle with my mental health and these comments make me think, will I regret this in 25 years?

If you’ve been estranged for a long time, do you regret it? If you’ve broken no contact did you regret it?

Hi everyone. I am a first time mom to a 6.5 month old. I have exclusively nursed for 6.5 months now and I have never offered a bottle. Whenever I talk to other moms and this comes up I receive lots of criticism, snide remarks, and people often make it seem like I’ve messed up my baby for life. I’m feeling lots of guilt and shame that I haven’t given her a bottle yet, or even tried to.

For context of why I haven’t, when I was pregnant my mom told me I HAVE to pump so she can feed my baby because she needs to bond with baby too, that’s how she’s going to do it and she has a “right” to that. I told her that I wanted to nurse and she pressed the issue that I HAVE to pump, for her sake. She went as far as to buy me an electric pump and bottle warmer, despite me telling her that I wasn’t going to be buying these things. After that, I didn’t want to pump at all. I pumped a few times with my manual pump in the initial days when I was super engorged but since then I have not. I think I have like 15oz of breast milk and 10oz of colostrum in my freezer.

Given that I haven’t given a bottle, and I live an hour from anything, I haven’t really been away from my baby for extended periods of time (other than when I’m napping or busy with something around the house and she’s with others). Family and friends are also telling me that she is overly attached to me and I need to leave her with other people now or it’s only going to get worse.

I planned to nurse for a year, but now I’m wondering if I should start giving her bottles sometimes? Will she even take one at this stage? Where would I even start with offering a bottle? Have a made a huge mistake? I feel awful :(

Hi all! I am a ftm of a 6 month old and have been cloth diapering for 3 months. I use LPO double gusset pockets, and up until now, one bamboo insert. Cloth diapering is not something I ever thought I would do, no one in my family has done it, so I’m turning here for some real life experience :)

Previously, one bamboo insert was enough but now she leaks at times, sometimes legs and sometimes tummy, depends on her position. I’ve troubleshooted the fit and I don’t believe that is the issue I think I need to add more absorbency.

I have a couple hemp liners, and when I stuff with one bamboo and a hemp behind it, there is no leaking. The only person I know who cloth diapers always does two bamboo insert and doesn’t use hemp.

I’m just looking for other peoples experience as their child grows up, do you use two bamboo liners? a bamboo and a hemp? something different I’ve never heard of because this is all foreign to me…

The hemp I was looking at hold 4.5 oz, and a bamboo charcoal hold 10oz, so if I get hemp, will i eventually need more bamboo as well?

I’m just looking for information before I go all in and buy enough liners to double stuff my whole stash. I appreciate any information that is offered!