To ask if you find your own babies boring or if nature makes them interesting so the long and repetitive stuff is more tolerable

[ForestGoblin]

They take SO long to drink a bottle of milk

They have a limitless capacity for interest in putting blocks through holes again and again

Their chat is non existent

The physicality of keeping them safe and clean is so repetitive

I have adhd so I am a wimp when it comes to boredom but then so do lots of mums and everyone seems to cope fine

So, if I had a hypothetical baby, would it be less boring than I fear?

For me personally - yes all of the feeding, nappies and lack of sleep is super dull, but nature as you say or whatever it is made my own baby the most special exciting fun little thing that I passed the day being amazed by her just being here!

I found everything about ds as a baby infinitely, delightfully, compellingly fascinating, so no I never found him boring. I was lucky though I guess, because I know others have a completely different experience.

I was very keen to have children and still found mine pretty boring at that age! (Love it now they're past the baby / toddler stage.) So I would say - think carefully!

I found a lot of joy in my baby which motivates you along with the love you feel for them but yes sometimes it’s still boring and repetitive but then so much of life is. There’s lots of things that make it less boring like meeting up with friends with your baby.

Sorry I know that sounds horrifically smug. I have lived with depression all my adult life but being pregnant and breastfeeding was the only time I did not suffer with it.

I was too tired last couple of times to notice any boredom. I looked forward to silence and dreamed about a good night sleep.

Ds1, he was a very content baby and he sleep through anything. If you stuck to his schedule around feeding and cleaning. Then it was on you, for being bored.

It is less boring when it's your own:

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It's genuinely more interesting to see a baby develop day to day than looking after a baby as a one off

However, it is still a bit boring. The thing that is helpful is that when babies are at their most boring, they are also most portable. I just put mine in a sling and did what I wanted to for the first few months - lots of nice walks, some art galleries, etc

Personally, I find other peoples babies really boring, and although I loved ds as a baby it was an incredibly boring stage. Thankfully though the days are long, the months are short, then they are toddlers and start to be more interesting and with your own you can do things your own way.

Yeah I do wonder how much of the slog is because some adults LIKE slog and how much is unavoidable.

Yes tbh I found my son as a baby was quite boring, but I enjoy being at home and had a lot of time to watch TV/do jigsaws/listen to podcasts so I never felt bored. It was more the tiredness that got to me

Wait until they can walk around on their own, life becomes much more exciting and unpredictable!

I love babies, mine and other people's, and really enjoy looking after them. I didn't find it boring to be honest, no more so than normal life? If I was bored I watched TV or went out somewhere, met friends and family - just with a baby too.

So boring. You start off all enthusiastic and realised you've just watched your baby hit the same toy repeatedly for 20 hours but actually it's only been 3 minutes and you still have 1 hour before nap time.

I much prefer toddlers and preschoolers.

Same for me. Everything they did was incredible to me 😁

I don't understand where they get the boundless enthusiasm for the same repetitive stuff. Mix things tf up, babies.

When I had my babies I completely understood and of course did research on their early development.
So yes I found it boring but understood so much was actually going on.
Since then and none are older now I've done a more detailed course on it and WOW. I wish I had done it prior to babies really because so many small things are massively getting the or developmental going.
Putting things in holes, hand eye coordination, fine motor skills skills, links in the brain, consequences and actions and so on.
Don't get me wrong of course my own had toys and stimulation and so oN but I didn't

Fully appreciate how important all these things are, painting holding a paint brush ready for pen grip, outside nature, eyes looking far away helping eye muscles all sorts!!

I find my baby the most wonderful and fascinating person on earth. When he was new I was a bit puzzled by him but soon started to adore him. I have had anxiety and OCD since having him but partly that's because my brain couldn't cope with such crazy love and malfunctioned which meant we were sent to an mbu together.

I think other babies are quite sweet though

It's how we all learn. Learning through repetition is how we all develop. Though I suspect you do know that and are maybe just being obstinate for comic effect.
I am autistic so I may be gauging your tone incorrectly.
Ultimately the baby stage is so full on and such a huge learning curve that it passes in a flash. It is the most incredible stage because it's when humans develop the most of their entire lives, it's fascinating really. But it can also be exhausting and forces you to question everything you never knew you could even care about.
It is such a short stage though and before you know it you're on to another stage and realise you have to learn a whole new load of stuff as you go.
It is without doubt the most intense and wonderful experience we can have on Earth but it's also not for everyone 💜

I would say it's a really short stage in the grand scheme of things. If you are going to have a baby you are also going to have a toddler, preschooler, primary age, secondary age, teen and adult and there will be times you are bored and times you are loving life all through the next 20 years. Its fairly short sighted to worry that the first 6 months will be boring.

There are lots of things you can do to make it less boring. I watched a lot of box sets while breastfeeding and I got into baking and home cooking, I explored a lot of local places with baby in the pram.

I found it mind-numbingly boring, I was so bored I cried. My 4 year old is interesting though, and my 15 month old is getting there.

Mine were quite tedious but they were an excuse to go places, I'm pretty sociable so loved going to groups etc (I knew where all the free ones were) and to play dates, miss those days

Same here. I would rather do housework than watch my baby.

@ForestGoblin

My dd is autistic and dsd has profound disabilities, they still do repetitive things!

I have found both mine very boring as babies.

The good news is that phase really doesn’t last long then you are blessed with a toddler, then a pre schooler and they are absolute legends. Can be right PITAs but they are anything but boring!