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nightowl · 15/11/2004 02:28

where do you put your baby when you need to go clean upstairs or whatever? how do you make it safe? dd is 10 months old.

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mishmish · 15/11/2004 02:51

Don't know if this helps but I used to put DS into a baby walker with some unswallowable toys on the tray bit. He couldn't climb out or fall and I knew I could get about 15 minutes of speed cleaning done! He also loved sitting in the laundry basket with a few toys and I could drag this from room to room!

mishmish · 15/11/2004 02:52

Don't know if this helps but I used to put DS into a baby walker with some unswallowable toys on the tray bit. He couldn't climb out or fall and I knew I could get about 15 minutes of speed cleaning done! He also loved sitting in the laundry basket with a few toys and I could drag this from room to room!

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nightowl · 15/11/2004 02:53

i have one from ds but she is so thin she twists round and falls through the one leg hole! and i dont trust her in it anyway..shes like lightening! we never use it really.

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mishmish · 15/11/2004 03:00

luckily DS used to get jammed on the rug in his. Would she play in cot or travel cot? Travel cot used to be handy as it was a bit of a novelty - except it used to take me 20 minutes and lots of swearing to put it together. I think the answer is to give up cleaning.

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nightowl · 15/11/2004 03:16

travel cot is at my mums?

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RudyDudy · 15/11/2004 09:08

could you put some toys in a portable bag / box and keep moving them and the baby around with you?

jupiter · 15/11/2004 11:05

I put my baby in his cot with a few toys or wait until he has his morning/afternoon sleep to clean upstairs (mind you he sleeps thru anything).

Then I do a lightening clean around the top of the house. Or wait until the afternoon until the older ones get back from school to keep an eye on him downstairs.

Or.... wait til hubby gets home from work (explain that I have a baby to look after and its impossible to clean upstairs as well... ) then get hubby to hold the baby or better still get him to clean upstairs

flopseybunny · 15/11/2004 13:44

hi night owl,

i put baby in cot with lots of toys and radio 1 playing some funky tunes.
or if i'm feeling particularily energetic i'll pop him into baby rucksac carry thing and have him on my back whilst i do vacuming, not so good when you want to clean bath etc as babes tends to slip out when you bend over!.

surfermum · 15/11/2004 13:59

I have a Babydan playpen, keep it up all the time and it's brilliant. Must stop putting her in there so I can go on Mumsnet though!

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