to find my newborn a tad (ahem) boring

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Don't get me wrong -- I love 4-week-old DS, and he's terribly cute, but. . .

all-day breastfeeding, burping and nappy-changing is BORING BORING BORING. I have given birth to a poo-making machine.

Please remind me it gets better when he learns how to smile at me. . .

It gets better, I use the newborn period to catch up on reading.

Go to bed with baby and book - do not move for anything other than loo/showers/food.

YANBU - they get increasingly more interesting with age!

cherish the "boring stage" it gets very hectic and very exciting very quickly :)

I do hope this is true. My ds is 22 weeks (11 corrected) and I'm still waiting. And as for reasing - how, I've never managed more than a page here and there....

Any minute now he will give you a huge grin.

Then he will start to giggle. Before you

know it he will be doing so many clever

things you will be on MN telling the world

what a genius he is.

At the moment it takes me all flipping day to read the newspaper online.

(OK, admittedly today I am B a little bit U because DS fell asleep 40 mins ago so I can mumsnet, but I'm currently using the spare minutes to run a bath. . . . back in a mo)

it is boring, but you will be looking back fondly to this "immobile" stage when he*s causing havoc in your household.

Dc are like wine, they get more interesting as they age...

IME the first six months are to be survived (4 months and counting with ds2...).

I can remember going looking into DS's cot after yet another night when I got about an hours sleep, and he gave me the biggest smile ever. He was about 7 weeks old and it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. They do get more interesting with age. Mine are 6 and 4 now and frankly, I could do with a bit of boredom sometimes!

I watched box sets of DVDs on a laptoop while breastfeeding,adjusting the controls with my toes. Or spoke to people on the phone with my mobile on speaker. Otherwise I found it hideously boring and frustrating. I read in a book ("The Baby Whisperer") that it was terrible to talk on the phone or be otherwise distracted during the special bonding moment of breastfeeding. I threw the book in the bin.

Don't worry it won't last long. Enjoy the peace and relative calm before the storm.

They get a lot more interesting and ahem... troublesome.

Mine are now 8 and 10, and I remember thinking, as newborns, that all they did was sleep, eat and poop!

When my elder DD started to smile it did make it all worthwhile, and now they are even older we can have discussions around the dinner table, and they are actually good company.

I do remember when DD1 was just over a year old I said to my husband 'I wish they would start talking.' Be careful what you wish for (!), because now there is incessant talking, bickering and no peace in the house.

BUT,

I wouldn't want to go back to the 'baby' stage, and neither would my husband.

Enjoy each stage as it comes, they are all unique and special and you'll remember them fondly.

I read the entire internet to pass the time. Also box set DVDs. Unbelievable how many episodes you can get through in a day.

I have found with DS2 I am in much less of a hurry for things to start happening, life is easier when they stay put!

@ "the entire internet"

I'll swop your 4 week old for my 14 year old and 11 year old for a week. You won't be bored then!!!

It is relentless and often dull (but also very lovely sometimes). They definitely get more interesting and much harder work

Ah, the wonderful innocence of the first time parent!

I felt exactly the same as you OP. Now DS1 is 22mths and chaos doesn't even begin to cover it. I'm expecting DS2 in December and I am sooooo looking forward to the newborn stage for no other reason than that I'll be able to put him down for 5mins and he'll still be there!

(provided DS1 hasn't taken him off to flush down the loo or something...)

I found my DD1 dragging baby DD2 around by her leg today.

But, yes, newborns ARE terribly boring. For me, it picks up around 9m. DD2 is just coming up to that age and is becoming very entertaining.

His first little laugh will be truly the most beautiful sound you have ever heard..........trust me.

What everyone else has said already, enjoy it...

I used to curl up with DD in bed in the afternoon, she'd BF and fall asleep for about 2-3 hours, it was the last time I was able to read more than 4 pages of a book.

DD now 9 months and into everything!

Every day they grow up more and become more and more interactive

Oh God I loved this stage!

Out & about with the pram & people coming & cooing over him.

I could just cuddle & admire him for hours.

I remember a friend who would get up about 6 & "have her jobs done" by 8 & then be "bored" for the rest of the day & I couldn´t help but think how sad that was!

Enjoy the cuddles - DD is 6 months and is not interested in anything than her attempts to be upwardly mobile. She won't cuddle any more which is very sad :(
And once she started smiling it almost made waking up in the night worthwhile just to be greeted by her beaming face

I used to say, I'd happily be pregnant for another three months if they came out three months old! And I have three. With my third, I extended that to nine months!! I now have a walking, babbling little comedian, who makes everyone laugh, much more interesting!!