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logistics: how to tote infant around 3 story house while doing chores?
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Anonymous
| Baby monitor during naps and blankets/toys on each floor. |
Anonymous
| see if any of your friends can loan you extra bouncy chairs and then you can have them on each floor. I had two, plus a borrowed swing, a borrowed bumbo and a borrowed pack-n-play so we were pretty much covered. (also had a borrowed bjorn but I didn't really use that in the house.) I'm astonished at how much housework you do/plan to do, by the way. My house is neat and I don't do all that stuff anywhere near every day. (there just isn't time/energy, with a 2-year-old, a commute and a full-time job.) |
Anonymous
| 1 moses basket |
Anonymous
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You don't need a carrier, you need a housecleaning service. Or to relax your standards a tiny bit on account that you had a baby 21 days ago.
Must the coffee table really be polished? I mean, that's your call of course. But ... why? Can you articulate why? |
Anonymous
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I don't think I've ever vaccumed all three levels in one day with my two little ones. So I second relaxing the standards. Also, usually family comes to help out... why can't MIL vacuum?
We have a maid service come through once a month to do all the dusting and cleaning out the fridge kind of stuff. Saves my sanity. |
Anonymous
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op here. i did these things bcause i could! mil is disabled -- unable to do much physical work. no big deal.
maid svc is nice... but if two bouncy seats lets me get this much done now & then, ill take the bouncies. tnx! |
Anonymous
Housework? When my baby was three weeks old my idea of "chores" was changing diapers, pumping, and cleaning bottles. Am I the only one? |
Anonymous
| Indoor stroller works well on the first level of the house-kitchen, DR,FR,LR hall to bath. Think the pram . |
Anonymous
| Well, we've found a good solution. I just tie a length of rope (3/" climbing rope works well, approx. 15 feet long) around our 1.5 year old daughter's ankle and the other end around my waist. Where ever I go, she slides along behind (we have hard-wood floors). She bounces along down the stairsjust fine, though going up is a little more challenging, but as long as I'm fairly patient she usually makes it more or less ok. |
Anonymous
| yeah... i was going to say... sit your bum down on the couch and watch some tv whlie the baby naps on you, or while you're nursing... relax and don't think about the chores for a while... i would have my MIL cooking and cleaning so i could rest and bond with baby.... OR if you're married, then have your husband do the chores when he gets home from work! |
Anonymous
| OP, you lost me at polishing the dining room table while recovering from a c-section. Jesus H. |
Anonymous
| You had a c-section three weeks ago? For heaven's sake, you really need to take it easy. The housework will wait. Even after a vaginal birth, you should not be up and down the stairs at that point unless it's necessary. Vacuuming does not count as necessary. |
Anonymous
| Oh, stop all this whining. My Vietnamese wife was back to planting rice 45 minutes after giving birth to our first child, so I think you can manage to do a little housework to keep the place nice for your hard working husband. |
Anonymous
| My midwife says the first 6 weeks after birth mom should only be focused on the newborn and herself. Doing too much puts you at risk for PPD. |
Anonymous
Same here. Infants won't go anywhere. They're too young to roll, crawl, or move. |