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When do you Hoover if you have a baby?

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Hercy · 20/05/2013 09:27

Pretty trivial, but I am just wondering when those with babies get the chance to Hoover?

I don't have any children (yet), but have an 8 month old Labrador which can make it a pain. If he's asleep I don't want to Hoover and wake him, if he's awake he's usually trying to use the Hoover as a chew toy. It's manageable enough for me because I can just shut him in the garden while I get on with it.

But how do you do it with a baby?? Can hardly shut them outside and if you did it while they were sleeping, surely you'd wake them. Do you have to wait for your partner to take the baby out for a walk, or is this just pointless to ask because you wouldn't have the time to Hoover when you have a baby?

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HorryIsUpduffed · 20/05/2013 14:54

It is tricky. My two hate the Hoover, but waiting until another adult is around to reassure them or Hoover for me was impractical.

The trouble with hoovering when the baby sleeps is that that is when you are supposed to rest yourself, and/or do jobs you really can't do safely with them awake, eg ironing.

bishboschone · 20/05/2013 14:54

Just Hoover round he baby from day one then they are fine. My ds loves the Hoover !!

redexpat · 20/05/2013 17:38

I did it when DS was asleep in his pram outside.

Tilly333 · 20/05/2013 17:47

made an error not hoovering around DD when she was a baby... then when I did start she just screamed! do it when you need to, they do get used to it!

ilovecolinfirth · 20/05/2013 18:02

My neighbour must think I'm OCD as I use the Hoover a couple of times a day to help ds get t sleep!

NostalgicOne · 21/05/2013 22:47

During the small hours, from about 3am til 5am, every single morning without fail, with baby strapped to my chest in a sling. It's the only way to get any peace.

I kid you not.

cinnamonsugar · 21/05/2013 22:53

I used to do everything with baby in a sling. Totally, totally, agree with McPie's DM's advice on the previous page.

IShallCallYouSquishy · 22/05/2013 19:39

When DD was tiny her Moses basket was frequently accidentally bashed by the Hoover as I threw it around quickly while she slept.

Now I do it when she has her naps and do her room at weekend when DH is home to have her.

Other than that the cleaner does it Grin

MrsRickyMartin · 22/05/2013 20:23

Babies love the sound of the hoover. White noise will be your best friend when you have a baby. I don't like the noise of the hoover must have been a dog in my previous life and I have never hoovered since I got married, that's my DH duty.

whatsoever · 22/05/2013 22:01

I don't. I wait until DH is home at the weekend and he hoovers.

foreverondiet · 22/05/2013 22:56

You just hoover! If you can find the time! If the baby is asleep you could close the door and not hoover in the room. If the baby is awake you could just hoover anyway - could even wear them in a sling or sit in bouncer. What about washing machine! Or tumble drier? They are noisy too. Better stop anyone from phoning your house as well. And disable the doorbell!

amazingmumof6 · 22/05/2013 23:01

baby won't chew the toy, not for months.
just get on with it or get a cleaner

Disappearing · 22/05/2013 23:41

my DD as a newborn didn't mind the hoover, but as she got a little older she became terrified of it, which meant that for ages it was seldom done. My DS never minded it at all. I suppose if you do it often enough the baby will be used to it.

fossil971 · 22/05/2013 23:47

It's a good point about doing anything at all when you have a baby: shower, housework, phone calls, cooking... If they are awake you have to leave them in the cot/bouncy chair/ car seat within sight/hearing and hope they don't get miserable and start screaming. It's one of those things you think must be manageable because everyone else seems to manage it.

GrendelsMum · 22/05/2013 23:50

The suggestion that you can't hoover if you have a baby is the best argument I've ever heard in favour of having DCs.

I'm going to try and conceive right now. I can't bear hoovering.

5madthings · 22/05/2013 23:53

Pmsl at not wanting to wake the dog!

You just hoover when you need/want to and get on with it!

5madthings · 22/05/2013 23:54

And the hoover often sent mine to sleep, sometimes I put it on just to send them to sleep!

TheFutureMrsB · 22/05/2013 23:55

My first son was petrified of the hoover, my fourth son rides on the hoover as I go along cleaning!

It was a case of taking my son to my mums everyday, running home, hoover everywhere, then pick him back up, was a nightmare, he grew out of it though by around 8 months and now at 12 he will occasionally do it himself!!!

amazingmumof6 · 23/05/2013 00:00

Grendelssmum

tidying the same. or cleaning the fridge.

get a cleaner and sleep when baby does! Wink

ems1910 · 23/05/2013 00:06

When it was needed. If it was a routine chore then once B was asleep or while he watched in his bouncing chair or his play gym

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