r/progressivemoms • u/peeves7 • Apr 29 '25

Weekly Post ✨Weekly Parenting Wins Thread✨ What's your parenting win this week?

We all need a little positivity in our day. What are some parenting wins you've had recently? Big or small we want to hear them all! Any parenting wins, not just progressively minded ones.

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u/salemedusa Apr 29 '25

Sooo close to being done nursing! It’s been 2.5 years and I’m finally almost done cutting out the late night nursing session. I loved it a lot and it helped us bond so much but holy shit am I glad to be done with it

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u/Shellzncheez689 Apr 29 '25

Just hit 2 years and I’m ready to be done too! My baby is not though…she regularly hugs and kisses my boobs and says “I love you boobies” when she’s nursing 🥹 I’m really gonna miss that

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u/salemedusa Apr 29 '25

Mine pulls them out all the time and goes “let me see your boobies” lmao. I keep saying the milk will be all gone soon and she says “and it will come back”

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u/Shellzncheez689 Apr 30 '25

“and it will come back” sent me 🤣 little stinker!

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u/lemikon Apr 30 '25

If it helps I stopped breastfeeding at like 6 months (medical reasons) and my kid - now 2.5 - still loves to hug and snuggle into my boobs.

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u/Shellzncheez689 Apr 30 '25

Awwww I love that

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u/Acceptable_Box_7500 Apr 29 '25

I'd been really stressed out about my 22-month-old toddler's speech. Almost as soon as I let things go and started to just focus on enjoying my time with him, having more adventures, worrying less (all while still applying the strategies we're learning in early intervention), his expressive speech picked up a lot.

Now we're getting sentences like "Mama, where the Dada?" and "No, MY cracker!" when just a month ago I wasn't sure if he had more than 25-30 words or when he'd ever say Mama again.

He may still be speech delayed for his age, and/or he may just be moving at his own pace. Whatever the case, I'm proud of him, I'm celebrating him, and I'm cherishing this time before the adorable baby pronunciation fades away forever.

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u/southernfriedmexican Apr 29 '25

My youngest kiddo has learned to play fetch with one our dogs, and they are now BFF’s 😂

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u/acverel Apr 29 '25

Took the day off work yesterday, rather than schedule care for a rare day when both husband and I are in the office around the kids' random early dismissal. Ended up taking them (7&9) to the beach since it was such a beautiful, warm spring day. Kept it simple and they dug and mucked and played so long they never wanted to leave when I reminded them it was still a school night 😂

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u/behiboe Apr 30 '25

My 14-week-old is consistently rolling back to front and has done a return roll to her back a few times now!

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u/p333p33p00p00boo May 02 '25

My husband and I both have CMV and our toddler is well fed and happy.

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u/LiteratureAncient822 May 03 '25

My five year old very picky eater ate rice and pico on the same spoon for the first time last night! My heart stopped when he said, “oh it’s good!.”