I am going to be a first time mom- in Canada, does anyone know of any quality baby moniters for deaf parents and have suggestions on how to find fire alarms for deaf people? Thank you so much for your help i am scared and want to do everything the best i can 🩷

Hi! Im new here... I have an 18 month old girl and a 4 week old girl.. my 18 month olds hair is really fine (I have textured curly hair) and strait. Her hair is just now below her ears but not below her chin yet. Its long enough that I can put just the top section in a tiny ponytail on top of her little head... Her hair is just long enough to tickle inside her ears and she's constantly itching her ears. She refuses to keep anything on her head at all. Any recommendations on what worked for other moms whos stubborn toddlers refuse a hair band??

I had no clue that when kids hair is growing In for the first time it grows at all different lengths!

Long winded post cause I’m in my feelings and I don’t have a lot of people who “get it”.

Mild bit of background information - my girls are not dainty little things. They are given the space to be themselves, whoever that is, but both happen to be little chaos monsters who don’t slow down. I get a lot of “she marches to the beat of her own drum” comments. I had been in a slightly bad mood yesterday after seeing a reel about “hockey moms” being know it alls in a sport they never played. It grates me knowing I wasn’t allowed to play contact sports, nor were most of my peers. That was seen as bad parenting when I was a kid. I went from cheerleading to marching band - I always had fun, but always wished I was playing football. My girls play rugby and hockey (they’re 7 and 9).

We’re also stuck on snow/cold day 746 of this school year, so everyone is a bit cooped up and crabby in my house.

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We met with my younger one’s new developmental pediatrician yesterday and the way that woman’s face lit up when she asked my daughter what sports she played made me so happy. Usually it’s eyebrow raises and quiet judgement, but she was actually *excited* and interested. She looked at my child’s extensive list of diagnoses and saw a kid whose chosen sports served as a better therapy than most clinical ones could. We got sorted to a random new Dev. Ped because ours’ retired and the universe gave me one who’s also a hockey mom. It was a brief appointment, but it feels like she’ll actually *get it* when I choose sports over 20 hours of additional therapies because they’re the routine suggestion. My kid thrives in these spaces.

Then we went to open skate/drop in hockey. My older one’s learning to play goalie - practices a ton, but she’s very much learning and serves as the emergency backup for her team while playing offense full time.

The hockey side was people working on their own drills, rather than an actual game, and my kiddo was the only goalie out there, so she was taking a lot of shots from every direction. There were a few little ones, but it was mostly 12-17 year old boys and a few adults (and I don’t ice skate, so she’s gotta hold her own). At one point she got a bit flustered and stayed down a beat longer than normal. I watched a 13/14 year old boy hype her up, explain the drill the other boys were working on and then stand back to make sure she understood when they started again.

It was so heartwarming to see him take the time with a much younger kid. It was his free time on a day off of school and he gave part of it to her. I’ve watched her be physically targeted more than once for being a girl in a ‘boy’ space and she always lets it just roll off of her (if she even notices). But seeing those moments give me hope she’ll face less of it as she gets older.

And that girl makes me *so* proud. She was missing more shots than she blocked and never more than paused - she saw a chance to spend 45 minutes practicing with kids who play 2-4 levels above her, knowing it would be hard and that she was “solo”. I cannot skate, so while I’m right there, she has to stand her own ground and set boundaries with people twice her size/age. And after that she turned around and had her normal team practice 3 hours later where she wasn’t supposed to be in goal, but stepped up when their full-time goalie couldn’t make it. She unapologetically takes up space and works so hard for what she wants, even in her second favorite sport.

Tl;dr my girls are chaos incarnate and they make me so proud. They are who I wish I was at their age.

Hi! So I’m celebrating my birthday by going on a 6 day trip to Guatemala starting this Thursday and I’m so irrationally terrified that my 9 month old breastfed daughter is going to forget me while I’m gone!! I’m so nervous that when I come back she’ll have forgotten I was her mom and be all up under her dad and look at me like I’m a stranger. I also have the irrational feeling that since she’ll be drinking minimum breastmilk(since I wasn’t able to pump a lot) and moreso eating food/water/ drinking formula while I’m gone, when I get back she won’t jump back on my breast.

Google says I’m thinking irrationally but are there any parents, moms double points, that have traveled for a bit and came back and everything was alright? I just need a little reassurance.

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I’ve recently had twin girls and I know everybody says the phrase “he’s going to be a lady killer” etc for boys is creepy but what about people telling dad he’s gonna have to scare off all the boys or buy a shotgun? Like I know it’s playful and not the deep but it rubs me the wrong way lol

Hello, everyone!! My boyfriend’s sister is about to have her little girl VERY soon, literally within the next couple days, and I have no clue what to get mom! I was wondering what you guys would suggest? I was thinking of getting her some of her favorite chocolates or candies and some flowers, specifically pink roses (I’m not sure on her favorite color, but her middle name is Rose) among a few other things.

I’ve also been working on crocheting a blanket for her little girl and got an adorable little stuffed bunny for her too since I won’t be able to be present since I’m sick currently and won’t be visiting until I’m better for the safety of mom and the little one. My boyfriend will be there so my plan is to have him bring some of the things with him.

Girl moms on reddit I need help. I’m 14 weeks pregnant and I just found out I’m having a little girl. I have a 2.5 year old boy, so I feel nervous after only caring for boys. I’ve heard horror stories about having little girls so it has freaked me out a bit. I don’t really have anyone else around me with little girls so any advice helps.

I love to be the cool aunt, but my kids are much younger so I’m not in touch with that age.

What’s trendy in the early elementary age group?

My daughter has these little bunks they weren't as red a few days ago. Idk if she has opened them from scratching or not but they are still here and more red / open today.

Am I dramatic doe she need to go to the dr or just some neosporsn and band aids ?

Not sure if I'm posting in the right place or not, but I am not a makeup girly and need some insight. I've very much been a tomboy my entire life and my 8 year old daughter (almost 9) somehow is super girly and she really wants makeup. My concern is toxins. I feel like she is too young for makeup and I know children's makeup tends to be even more toxic than adult makeup. I originally just told her to wait til she is at least 12 or 13 but she started using markers on her face instead. She seems to mostly want blush. I don't know if I should get her blush or if it is safer for her to keep using markers on her face. I was looking into brands and I saw mad hippie is pretty toxin free..but is it more or less toxic than children's markers ? Lol help ?

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My daughter came to me over the weekend asking about the possibly of getting her first thong and or string underwear she is 14 says all her friends wear them... is this an okay age? Mom's what have you done in this situation. What age is good age?

Hi, mom of 5; 4 boys and a brand new baby girl! Where should I be looking for all the cutesy girl clothes? I do NOT shop SHEIN or anything like that, and it’s hard to decipher if websites are just a different version of SHEIN.

Hi 😁👋🏽 My husband and I are expecting our second baby girl and are having a hard time coming up with a name! Our first, Sophia Isabella, was super easy to decide on as we have had that name forever in hopes that we’d one day have a baby girl. Now we’re struggling! What goes well with Sophia Isabella? We were thinking of Alessia but are open to hearing all suggestions. TIA!

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I don’t know what to do. I’m pregnant with my second baby. My first was a girl and I absolutely ADORE her and saw myself ONLY being a girl mom. I didn’t have a sister growing up and that’s all I want for my daughter. That being said, pregnancy has been absolutely awful for me both times so this is likely going to be our last and I’ll never be able to have the second daughter I’ve dreamed of for me and the sister I wanted for my daughter. I’m 15 weeks along and we should find out gender in the next coming week or two and I’m convinced it’s a boy. I was also convinced my daughter was a boy but I feel like I’ve been in denial this whole pregnancy and I’ve finally accepted that this baby is more than likely going to be a boy and I’m at a loss. I have no one to talk to about this because no one understands and I feel awful for even feeling this way. I know a healthy baby is obviously what everyone wants and of course that’s what I want. I know I’ll love my child, but I’m so scared I won’t like him.. my daughter can’t stand little boys. Any little girl, no matter the age, she is obsessed with and it could be her first time meeting them and she would immediately be best friends with them, but she hates playing with little boys and just being around them. Even family. I’m so heartbroken for her and myself. I’m not sure why but I can’t handle baby boys crying, something in my brain flips and I’m just in flight or fight and I can’t do anything about it. My husband says it will be different when it’s my own kid and I want to believe him but what if it’s not. I’m a SAHM so I will be with the baby at all times literally. I breastfed my daughter for about 18 months and planned on doing that with my future children which means my husband won’t even be able to really help me with the baby after he gets home. There’s other things that specifically baby boys do that just make me want to lose my mind and I know myself and I know I won’t be able to handle it. There’s no point in calling me names for feeling like this. My friends have already told me how bad they feel for my baby for me to feel this way about the whole thing. I’ve cried and cried and I just need SOMEONE to help me so I CAN do this. I don’t need pity. I just want someone who knows how I feel or can relate at all to tell me it’s going to be ok. No one I’ve ever talked to understands and I’m starting to think I’m the only one who feels this way which makes me feel even worse.

Picture is just to support my claim, cropped to protect their faces🫶🏻 one daughter wears grungy clothes, still enjoys her dresses but chooses to save them for special occasions. She likes her jeans and leggings paired with a tee. The other one is obsessed with dresses, that one is her favorite, and they have to twirl “like a pretty princess” (seriously lately she won’t even wear her nightgowns if they don’t spin) one of them likes to ride her bike and scooter and she’ll get dirty but not too bad, doesn’t like mud and bugs a whole lot. The other is obsessed with mud and bugs. Take a guess one which one likes the bugs 😂

Seriously though it’s like their style doesn’t match their personalities and it’s so funny to me.