Anyone else a bit bored ?!

I’m loving being off work (luxury!!) & love looking after my boy but he’s a really easy baby (🙏🏻) & sleeps good. But I’m starting to find it quite boring and monotonous in a way

I do a couple baby classes a week, meet friends roughly once a week, but other than do get bored. I try to get out & do 8-10,000 steps a day so take boy in carrier

What else can I do to occupy my time?! Any ideas ? Also bored of spending every evening just watching TV with my partner when he finishes work. Feels like life has no variety anymore :/ 😟

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I feel the same, I am LOVING being off work but sometimes find myself at a loss as to what to do with the day! Not advise as such but I agree x

Any hobbies you always wanted to try but never got round to it? I have quite a lot but rarely get round to them. Gaming... I knit and crochet so making baby stuff while watching TV in the evenings. Might have a bath during my baby's first nap, do a facemask. Reading.

how do you have time to start a new hobby? I’ve been trying to shave my legs for about a month and I never get a minute to myself long enough 😂😂😂

yeh see Chloe idk why but I seem to have loads of time to kill … idk if it’s because my baby is an easy baby?! 🙉

they're not new ones for me rather ones I forget about for months then start again 😂

See I think my boy is easy, albeit it clingy, but I don’t feel like I ever get me time!

Soooooooooo bored. honestly, loving every second of it but i just live for the weekends when other friends and family are off work and we can socialise more. i go out and about and do swimming and classes etc but baby girl is such a happy soul and sleeps all night so i’m not even tired like i’m up for anything in the day 😂

exactly same here!! 🤣

I’m so jealous of you bored people. Embrace the peace and quiet and boredom 🤣 because if and when this baby reaches toddlerhood and baby number 2 comes along, fluffin hell, you will crave boredom trust me 😭 what id do to chill and be bored for a day!

yeh I can imagine 😅 I actually do not know how people do toddler and baby at once , even with my easy baby 😅

Ideas
- Join The Mum Club. They have local chapters and hosts meet ups. Great place to meet even more mum friends outside of the classes you’re already going to
- Swimming
- Local Farm
- Soft play that has a sensory section for babies
- Aquarium
- visit museums and art galleries (especially if baby is an easy baby and won’t cry)
- window shopping (or real shopping)
- story time at a local library
- Cinema. Many cinemas now have mum and baby early morning showings where the sound is turned down but you could still buy ear defenders just in case

so true. I have a 3 year old as well but she's in nursery full-time. The odd time I have both of them home during the week I feel like my head's going to explode.

mine does nursery 2 days a week but I go to baby classes with the October baby on those days so I never have a chill day!

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Is this normal?

Is it just my husband that does this? He is able to work from home via his computer and in the mornings and evenings he is on there doing his job. When he is done for the day he tends to stay in the room and either play video games or watch something. He will occasionally come out and play with the girls for a few minutes and that’s it but when I really need him he says he is busy. My daughters are both 1 year old now and I am just wondering how much involvement should he have with them now?
Idk if this is the norm or not…..

Saying NO to buying toys etc

5 year old is getting really envious of others. He is obsessed with items that other kids have at school. I am pestered daily to buy these things in a different style when we already have 3 others. I have seen parents just buying stuff their kid likes which I don't necessarily agree with even when i can afford it. How do you deal with it?

Thoughts?

your soon to be brother in law (upon inquiry) told you that only a few kids from the family were attending his wedding because they are over the age cut off..

Tablet for kids

Alright don’t need any negative Nancy’s telling me not to get my 2yo a tablet so if that’s what your gunna do please don’t participate in my poll.

We’re about to move cross country 3+ day trip and my 2yo and 9m hate the car I’m talking scream their heads off till they are out of their seats. We’ve already changed car seats and it didn’t help so I’d like to at least have one entertained and sit next to baby and try and distract her or put her to sleep. Our new car has tvs but since they are rear faced my 2yo can’t see it.

Debating getting her a tablet or dvd player right now on long car rides I end up giving her my phone because I get so overwhelmed sitting in between both of them screaming and crying.

And yes I do bring different toys I bring snacks I play songs try to distract her other ways but for the sake of not losing my mind on this move I think this is best.

-A very overwhelmed and anxious to move mama 😓

Daycare?

Thoughts on daycare?? Truly, I am SCARED to be leaving my kid for daycare. I literally do not trust anyone, not even family (they haven’t given me a reason it’s just trust issues on my end, you never know). He’s turning 3 and I’ve been a sahm the whole time but tbh my man doesn’t make enough for us to move out somewhere more calm . We live in a ‘not so safe’ area in LA and I’m just not used to living here so I just want us to give my son a better life and in order to speed up the process I would have to work.. I do lashes at home and I’d be open to take new clients so I wouldn’t have to look for work but I’m just scared to lose my license 😭

Separation Anxiety

My baby is nearly 6 months old and has just entered the separation anxiety stage… this evening I was trying to cook dinner whilst my husband was with the baby and he was just crying every time he couldn’t see me, with full blown hysterical sobbing, and as soon as he saw me again he started giggling and smiling. Any tips on how to stop this? And how long might this phase last?
My husband felt pretty disheartened and upset 😢