Parenting Worries Uncovered: 10 Top Concerns Of UK Parents

From what to do when your baby won’t sleep, to figuring out if that pesky rash on your baby is eczema or something worse, there are lots of questions that new parents need answers to – particularly when the health visitor isn’t around to ask.

And it seems like each parent has their own way of finding the answer to their question. According to a survey conducted by Pampers, today’s parents are getting advice from a mammoth 22 different sources.

They’re no longer purely going to their own parents for help (despite the fact that a lot of the issues are time-old and not new to this generation), instead over half of parents press their friends for the most up-to-date advice on baby-related matters.  

Parenting websites are also consulted, as are books, magazines and healthcare professionals, to name a few.

10 Top Parenting Concerns
The poll of 1,000 UK parents, all which have a child under the age of two, also highlighted the issues that mums and dads obsess over most.

At 56.2 per cent, illness was shown to be the concern that parents worries about the most. In close second, with 47.9 per cent, sleep was also found to be a big worry.

The third top parenting concern was revealed to be potty training, which caused 31.2 per cent of parents to vote for it as the issue that stressed them out most.

See the full breakdown below…

1.  Illness (56.2%)
2.  Sleep (47.9%)
3.   Potty training (31.2%)
4.   Teething (28.5%)
5.   What products to buy (19.2%)
6.   Skin concerns (14.7%)
7.   Feeding (1.7%)
8.   Weaning (1.2%)
9.   Breastfeeding (0.9%)
10.  Food/ eating (0.7%)

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