What do you do when babies in bed.

Hey mummas.

So recently I’ve noticed that once my little on is down for the night I almost feel like I’m just waiting for her to wake for a feed. I’ll sit and just look through pictures of her or clean the house.

What do you all do with your baby free evenings? My partners out quiet often so I really struggle with this time.

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Yeah I’m the same as you. My little one goes down at 7ish. Feel like all I do is cook dinner, clean, either shower or wait till morning, express milk and then go to bed until she wakes up again. No longer do any self care for myself but also feel like I don’t have the energy to do it xx

My girl sleeps between 8-9 and after that me and hubby usually just watch some Netflix for a bit!

Watch TV/read 🥰

Tiktok and insta reels 🤣🤣 and husband will be angry saying to sleep when baby js asleep🤣

I go to bed 😂😂

TV series catch up,
Gaming
Or we paint warhammer models 🤣

My partner works 4 nights a week so when he's in work I go to bed at 7.30pm with my baby and watch TV in bed or scroll through my phone and I will be asleep by 8 30pm so I get a really good sleep (she sleeps through 12hrs) when my partner is home we put her to bed at 7.30pm with the baby monitor on and we will have a glass of wine and watch a movie and make a nice dinner

If I get an evening at the moment we've been watching TV (Bones at the moment!)
I've been playing Disney dreamlight valley on my Switch.
I went through a phase of doing puzzles.
Sometimes will tidy up, depending what the day was like 😬

At the moment, we've not really been getting evenings so I tend to just go to bed with the kids 😴 since bedtime with our eldest is taking hours

Baby goes to sleep around 8pm, I sterilise bottles do any remaining washing up then have an hours wind down and go to bed x

My girl’s falls asleep around 8pm every evening, then she’s in bed by 8.30-9pm, and I go to bed in the same time. This way I can have 5-6 hrs sleep, as she’s waking for feed around 2.30-3.30am.

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