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Lottle · 24/06/2019 08:31

Anyone else feel, as a parent, like whatever they do it's not good enough?

My 20 week old (corrected age) is constantly played with, clean, breastfed, loved, sung to, talked to. I thought I was doing a satisfactory job and then I read a book about babies at this age...

Apparently I should be putting cinnamon on my hand and letting him smell it, rotating his toys (he doesn't have enough toys to rotate) having a nap schedule, going to bed at 7 (he goes to bed at 10 and gets up at 10). He should be rolling all over the place (he's rolled front to back about twice). He doesn't go to any baby classes as his napping (if it happens) is so unpredictable meanwhile friends are off to Baby French... He's also slowly dropping percentiles weight wise.

Anyone else snuffing the cinemon? Perhaps someone should report me to social services.

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2beautifulbabs · 24/06/2019 13:21

It's all ridiculous these days I think it's social media that's put so much pressure on parents to be seen as the best and doing all kinds with their babies

Honestly I think so long as baby is loved fed and in clean clothes that's all that matters not what some parenting book says and as for bed time routines it's so hard to get anything into a strict routine when they are so young just go with what works best for you and your baby as for the cinnamon sniffing thing I've never ever heard of that I know about messy play in baby groups or you could do that at your own home which is getting the baby to play with home made play dough sand etc etc but I personally wasn't a massive fan too much mess and as my DS suffers with eczema I was always weary as to what I sat him in to mess about with at the baby groups as of yet I haven't so much as taken my DD to that many baby groups currently 16 weeks old I'm more of the opinion now that when she's awake I chat to her play with her allow her time on her play mat sing etc but I'm no Mary poppins and my main priority is making sure both my DC are well looked after and are healthy and happy more than being seen as mother of the year to the outside world

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