In response, Joe admitted: “I did have to bite my tongue because every urge and every feeling that you get about Rex as a mum, you know, being a lioness, wanting to protect him, as a dad I get those exact same feelings.” Joe, 37, also noted that people tend to think that a father’s feelings towards their children aren’t as strong as their mother’s, but added: “They are. So I did struggle.”
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Stacey has won over a legion of new fans thanks to her honest approach when it comes to discussing parenthood. In a live Q&A on Instagram this week, she admitted she is still struggling to get her little boy to sleep through the night. “Loads and loads of questions on here about routines,” she began. “Is he sleeping throughout the night? What’s my routine? I can honestly say I spend a lot of my life researching and asking other parents how they’re doing. Because I am just not getting it right. I’m trying all the techniques, I’m trying to get him into an established routine. There seems to be some sort of routine where he, like, has his little naps at the same time every day but they’re tiny. They’re like micro-sleeps. No matter what, I’ve fed him during the day, no matter how many naps he’s had, he always, without fail, wakes up in the night really hungry wanting a bottle. So I don’t know if it’s just a development thing, and one day he’s just going to snap out of it. That’s what I’m hoping for.”