Housework.

Hello Mamas,
Firstly how are you all?
Secondly during the day, how are you getting housework done? I am so behind its getting me down. (Partner doesn't help)

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How old is your kid? Firstly get your partner to help. Secondly what I find really helps is setting a timer; first timer I do 10mins when she naps (never more) and second timer I do 15mins maximum after I put her down to sleep. After the timer I go check on her then I have my own time.

With you both doing this you’ll be sure to get a lot done! It won’t be perfect but you won’t feel like you’re drowning or like you’re always cleaning/having to sacrifice your own time :)

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I sit my daughter in her bouncer and move her room to room as I get bits done 🙂 She doesn’t sleep independently in the day so it’s the only way I can get things sorted! I also get down when things are clean/tidy so I can relate completely!

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I have a fish lamp light, it’s got bubbles and fish moving around with coloured lights so I’ll put my son in his bouncer infront of that with some toys lined up on the sofa next to that and it keeps him happy, when he’s sat in it for the limited time I will then lay him on his mat still facing the lights and he stays pretty happy in there. Usually when his dad is here I do most of it but when it’s just us I hoover and focus on the living room/kitchen as mines open plan so I’m in the same room as him. Also we have a this thing called baby einstin aquarium, it is amazing my son can stare at it for hours!! So in the day I also pop him in his crib with it in and he stays pretty happy in there. Plus it gets him used to being in his own room and bed

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Baby wearing, I was able to put her down for the first 4 weeks but this last week she only want to contact nap! Or she will stay awake for hours on end!

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My partner does at least half (if not more). We both work full time so we both take care of our home. And every other week we have a cleaner.

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Ive found that on a night time when ive put mt eldest down thats when i do the housework.

So every night at about 7:15, i will do
- Steriliser
- Dishwasher
- Washing
- Turn dryer on
- Organise toys in living room and clean in there

My OH will keep the baby occuipied when i do this. Literallt takes me about 20mins these days.

We get 1 night every 2 weeks without the kids so thats my time to do a big deep clean.

It is hard, you just have to get a routine sorted x

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I'm not 😂 I had my baby 5 weeks early and I was in hospital for 12 days. During this time my partner moved our entire house to our new one. A lot of stuff is still just in random places!

I will do the bottle washing up, laundry and sterilise quickly throughout the day when she's down for a nap. I'm trying to do bits here and there but I'm just finding no time. My LG will play alone for a little while but gets frustrated that she can't move around or sit up so she starts crying after a bit usually.

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So me and my partner (11yrs) had an argument last night to the point he sat down on his phone and done nothing for our kids all night. This morning he then stayed in bed while I sorted the kids out for school and took them to school. I didn’t bother going back home because I’m fed up that he doesn’t pull his weight. Anyway, I went to a family members house this morning and haven’t engaged in conversation and then I get these messages from him.

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How much would be considered too much?

We’ve been screen free till my son turned 3 - and we watched the odd few low stimulating episodes, guess how much I love you, Kipper, little bear and so forth … but now he is getting interested in movies also, I’m struggling with the house now that he’s becoming more older he wants me to play with him a lot more then he did before 3 and he is active, to add I have a health condition with causes me to feel fatigue and dizziness a lot 😭

How much tv is considered too much? Im feeling a lot of mum guilt !! Even though he’s only having 40 minutes a day (not every day at times) …

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SCREEN TIME; Would you describe your parenting…

I do believe screen time can be both beneficial and harmful. We love family movie days/nights, we love Pixar films and wanted to share that with our little ones but we don’t do games on devices/youtube/short reel like videos and some kids series I can clearly see overstimulate them so we don’t watch.

I would describe us as aware of the danger of screens but I wouldn’t say we are strict with ZERO screen time, at all, we have the TV on in the background for a lot of the day, not kids tv all day and sometimes just music channels. Screens are going to be here forever and I do believe in teaching the balance. We are a camping loving family so when my kids have been outdoors playing, discovering and learning about the world all day I really don’t see how a bit of Toy Story in the tent is going to erase all that for a young one.

I do think smartphones and iPads see unnecessary for childhood, but I’m also not opposed to a movie on one during one of our many 5/6 hour drives. Like anything in life, is it not about balance? As parents we should research and learn of course, which is why there are things we have decided our children aren’t allowed but I do personally think completely screen free parenting takes it a step too far.

I see parents not allow their children to look at a screen say in FaceTime to a family member, I regularly show my children photos of my phone and we look at them together, we also look through physical photo albums🤷‍♀️ The world has both now.

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I can’t even make sense of it all. We were together 14 years and have kids under 5 including a baby.

I feel like the worst part is the silence. I messaged him a bunch of the photos like wtf how could you do this? How could you be with someone else over a year? He responded with a typo saying “it hasn’t been a year it’s actually been a for a few months”. I don’t know if he meant over a few months or only a few months and it’s driving me insane not to know. He hasn’t opened my messages since Sunday morning. Like umm I’m home alone with babies and my whole world is crashing and you can’t even check your phone? What if there was an emergency? No apology no nothing

It’s a woman I know but hadn’t seen in a few years but our last convo she knew I was pregnant. I messaged her asking how long they been together and how could she date him and flaunt it knowing we had a family and sent pics of our family but she blocked me and changed her page to private. They still follow each other so I don’t think they are broken up but the last post of them was December.


I just can’t believe this. We actually have been doing great in our relationship in the last 3 months things were better than ever. I had zero idea any of this was going on


I hate not knowing if/when he’s coming home? Is he at least coming up with a fake apology or something or will he just be angry and act like he’s done nothing wrong. I can’t believe that was his only response and the typo is driving me mad lol

I haven’t slept or even ate since I found out. I’m so heartbroken we just had celebrated his birthday Saturday with the kids and had such an amazing day out, it was so beautiful our toddler was running around saying daddy daddy daddy which she just learned to say and now I’m just like wtfffffff

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