To think it takes so long to leave the house?!

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We have a 3yr 9 month old and an 8.5 month old. When I'm on my own with them, which is a quite a lot of the time, I get dressed then get the kids dressed as soon as my feet hit the floor.

My current frustration is how f-ing long it takes us to leave the house! OMG i thought it was bad with one, but with two everything takes twice as long. We tend to go out in the morning, so breastfeeding, toilet, nappy change, dressing, breakfast, toilet, getting stuff together.. If we come back for lunch, that then takes ages. Sometimes I just feel like it's too much hassle!

I miss the days of being able to get out the house within 30 mins with just a handbag! AIBU?!

It's a total faff but it's only temporary remember! I remember the first time my kids got in the car and both did their own seatbelts...bliss! Today I took them out and all I had in my bag was my phone and bank card!

When my twins were babies I once genuinely spent three hours trying to leave the house.

There were multiple instances of poo explosions and sickness.

By the time I’d changed them both head to toe for the 4 time it was time to feed them again and I just sat down in the floor and cried.

The next day was better.

This too shall pass OP. Meanwhile

yanbu! it takes so long! 6 year old, 2.5 year old and a bf 8 month old too. we have to be at school for 9am every week day. mornings feel like a marathon.
formerbabe your post gives me hope

Wait till the youngest is even more on the move - I have a 4 and 2 year old! Latest trick is to take off shoes/coat/ unpack bag that is ready to go!!!

Luckily both like getting into the car so I open the door and 'race' them to the car!

Yep! When people say they miss being able to XYZ before kids....I just miss deciding to leave the house - and then just doing it!

try having 4 it takes us so long to get ready in the mornings for school i struggle to be on time!

I have a similar age gap and find the eldest annoyingly harder to get ready. Baby I just need to check is fed and clean nappy and go but eldest is argument over shoes argument over coat, needs a snack, argument over the wrong snack, needs a wee, forgotten essential tat that needs to go in the car with us (like a big leaf), tantrum about getting in the car first /last etc.

End up only going out after the baby naps so I can prep me / the car and mentally prepare the eldest, then (not ideal I know but works) put the eldest in car and run up and get baby and put in the car before properly waking up and we're out in only 30 painful minutes!

I have a 4.5 year old, 2.5 year old and a 3 month old. It can take forever. It's worse at the weekend when my husband is around. I tend to sort the youngest out first while other two are having breakfast then getting the middle one ready whilst asking the older one repeatedly to get ready. Thankfully I don't have to do school run every day as husband does it. They just mess around all the time in the mornings.

Oh god yes. Trying to get my 3yr old to pre school on time with her 18m old brother in tow is PAINFUL. Especially now there is an extra layer of clothes to contend with.
So much polite nagging "sweetheart can you PLEASE get dressed now? Darling? I have asked you 7 times now".
Chasing to them round to get their teeth brushed.
Chasing them to brush their hair.
Trying to interrupt a game of "fairies at the hairdresser" or whatever it is to get them out of the door.
I always put the 18m old in the buggy while I finish up and his latest trick is to take his shoes and socks off and throw them in the wet patio floor. Fun!

formerbabe how old are your kids?

AutumnB 8 and 10

It is a nightmare, but by the time you have 4 you’ll be a pro
I was having the same exasperation’s this afternoon trying to get everything to get coats and shoes on and get out of the door, I mean why do I have tell my kids 27 times that you need shoes on to go outside I wonder how we manage to get to school, nursery and work on time but we make it, it’s just on days off we can’t get our act together!

Haha. I had a thread under a different username about traveling with kids and when I said 'it's X travel time plus an hour each way to get them in the car' I got a lot of snotty responses about how it wouldn't really take that long to get out of the house, why on earth would it take that long, you're just exaggerating?

Mine are nearly 4 and bf 10 months old baby. So older one gets up, I chase him around to get his clothes on while he's running around his room at 100 mph, feed the baby, change nappy, get breakfast ready etc try and get ready myself with baby literally hanging onto my ankles and screaming if put in playpen, dc1 chatting away so I can't hear anything...
Then actually getting in the car involves stopping his game of animals rescuing pirates or whatever, him whining he doesn't want to goooo, won't go to the loo without an argument and bribery, takes ages putting shoes on, refuses to put coat on, needs to bring specific toys which can't be found.... ARGH! then baby poo explosion, sit dc1 in front of t.v. while sorting that out, then he wants to watch 'just one more episode'.... Wants daddy to put him in his car seat, when daddy comes: no actually I want mummy to do it...

Ad infinitum...

Only said to my DH last weekend that I feel like my mother who would bring us somewhere when others were going home. There are five of us so I get it now.

Have two under 19 months and between naps, Naples and feeds it takes forever to get out

Yes! Mine are 3.5 and 13m. It takes forever. One is always escaping or whining about something

However, currently have pil staying, and I can get both kids and myself ready in the time they take to get just themselves. It is nice to have help taking them to the car though.

When I get to work in the mornings it's after a good 3 hours of hard work and negotiation. I feel you op.

YANBU! Mine are 5 months and 22 months - oldest loves running off and removing his coat/shoes. Youngest cries as soon as she's in her car seat which we carry her out to the car in. DH faffs around for ages.

Kill me now.

You have a three year old and an 8 month old op. The weeks days seconds etc aren't needed

@amirightorameringue

**eldest is argument over shoes argument over coat, needs a snack, argument over the wrong snack, needs a wee, forgotten essential tat that needs to go in the car with us (like a big leaf), tantrum about getting in the car first /last etc

Have you been following us? This is so accurate of what my four year old is like I genuinely burst out laughing!! The baby is a piece of cake to get ready by comparison! God it is good to know other people understand