Posts by tangledblue

t2009, I'm glad that helped! Hope it keeps going ok!   (I have found the "walking away" from a tantrum to be a really useful technique lately with DD, who is 3 and sometimes just contrary for the sake of asserting herself....

OK, easy for me to say since my daughter didn't give us quite that rough a time with the transition. But when things like that are happening, I find it helpful to just try to detach emotionally from the situation (easier said than...

Maybe try some special treat that she can only have while being watched by someone other than you? My DD (who is 3) would get upset when we left about half the time (with her grandma, whom she adores) but when she came to associate ice...

I also think...none of us are perfect and probably none of us have perfect parents. But if you can say that your parents loved you and tried their best...I really think issues we have as adults belong to us and not to our upbringing,...

Also, if you do end up needing another c-sec for any reason (because while you are likely to vbac just fine one never knows), maybe you could ask for something besides percocet...also, did they give you a stool softener, if it was the...

If this is new behavior, has anything major changed recently? Have you asked her if there is something she is afraid of or worried about? Does her reaction change depending on who the caregiver is?  Those are the questions I'd...

I think it is very unlikely that you are a "bad mother."  Look at your strengths in parenting as well as your weaknesses. We all have moments where we feel like we've really screwed up, or bad days, or rough periods in our lives....

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Agree with pbjmama. When my dd was six months old and I was meeting a lot of other new parents, it seemed like everyone I knew was either considering therapy or actually in it, because of second guessing themselves as parents and just...

That's hard. I don't have any good advice, just want to say that I hope it will get easier on you and your little sweetheart.