To be bewildered by folk who claim that motherhood has made it impossible to go to the loo alone? Why?

[Snog]

What ridiculous nonsense is this?
Just
go
to the loo
alone

They stopped either coming to the loo with me or banging on the door and started fighting as soon as I was esconced. Long time ago now.

Actually I am probably lying a tad, I'm fairly sure I will have complained about it, that and cluster feeding.

Cool
This is my first Aibu
I am loving it - clearly I am simultaneously reasonable and unreasonable which is what it's all about
So many of you love an audience though, what a revelation

wouldn't say I love audience just got used to it frankly

Mummy to Katie, that's hysterical.

newbielisa (grin)
The first chapter is now written I feel

yanbu.

Mine can scream the house down and start WW3.

The door is locked and they have to wait.

Just realised I didn't add my vote. You are BU for allowing yourself to be bewildered by something that obviously doesn't affect you. You are also BU for saying Folk, shit term that reminds me of shit music.

There are no end of other things you can do with a child too once you crack going to the loo alone

I take DD as she awards me gold star stickers for producing "a great big lellow weewee in the turlet!!!" potty training gone wrong somewhere

I go to the loo.

I close the door.

Cue two children banging on the door chanting mummymummymummymummy!

(But I think it's cute - I'm at work all day with regular private loo breaks )

OP i love the word bewildered, i suggest it should have more everyday useage? discuss

YABU BTW, I love a trivial argument

Have none of you read The Help?

Apparently it's important for little kids to see their parents on the loo, it helps them with potty training

Anyway I understand some children are clingy and some aren't. My DD has never followed me to the loo, but she is a non-clingy one. It's luck of the draw surely?

Children vary don't they? I usually managed to go to the loo by myself, but I accept others had trouble with it.

Just as both my dc woke at the slightest noise or movement, leaving me pinned underneath them or sitting in the car with them reading my book, because I knew they could not be moved. I have been told that this was because I tiptoed around them.[bhmm] Hey ho

Yes I could go to the loo alone.
However DD would destroy the house if I did.

No locks on the loo doors. I can make the older ones stay out, but the under two year old just pushes against the door til it opens.

Also, if I need a poo I get performance anxiety if someone is shrieking "Mummy" outside the door. Puts me off.

Maybe TMI, but it's Friday night, there'll be worse on the bumsex thread.

Ooh double YABU there from newbielisa

I have a 3 week old baby. I can't do ANYTHING alone.

Why do you care anyway OP? Are you offering to come and jiggle him for me for five minutes so I can pull my pants up with both hands?

No? Thought not - in which case he will just have to work himself into an inordinate frenzy and refuse to breathe while I 'go on my own'.

Really, get to feck.

"Dd would destroy the house if I did"
Presumably this holds for everything she doesn't immediately get her own way about then?

I have two choices...I go to the loo alone and either feel uncomfortable about the misery that's occurring outside the door or worried about the suspicious silence OR.. I leave the door open and have a relaxed wee with a calm but visible and happy audience.

it never bothered me in the slightest-the child would just come with me and look at a book or play with a car and we'd wash hands together.I couldn't have relaxed if I had left them.What if one had fallen and banged his head or choked on a small toy or just got frightened?

Rooneymara just put the baby down for 60 seconds
The world will not end
You don't need me there to help you, you can do this!

My older ds (5) doesn't tend to come with me anymore but the little one is 7 months and just started crawling so its marginally more relaxing to just bring him with me than worry about what he's up to while I'm there. He doesn't have a cot and we don't have any other makeshift cages we could use...

I have definitely said that about it being an advantage of going back to work though, when I went back to work after ds1 when he was 13 months I was a single parent and I think it was just a convenient way of expressing the fact that work felt like a bit of a break compared to sole care of a baby.

No, I won't, because he will be upset. Sorry - my job is to stop him being upset and I'd rather go to the toilet with him in my arms than let him cry on his own, albeit two seconds from me.

I do it because it's my choice and I want to.