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How do you do normal things with a LO???

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Sarahjct · 31/01/2008 11:32

For example, I had to park my car at the end of the road last night. Now I need something out of it, my 3 week old is fast asleep and it's blowing a gale and peeing it down. It's like one of those riddles, 3 men, 1 woman and a donkey with one small boat and a river...

I know I can't leave dd in the house and wouldn't anyway but what on earth do you do? Do I drag her out of her warm bed? Do I clear the car every time I leave it (which then begs the question, what gets taken in first, shopping or baby?) This is the stuff they should tell you in ante natal classes...

She's my first in case that wasn't painfully obvious!!

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sleepycat · 31/01/2008 11:35

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oranges · 31/01/2008 11:38

I'd run to the car and get what you need (as long as its not a very long road).

FourPlusOne · 31/01/2008 11:38

It's rally hard to get used to at the start isn't it! Never have this particular problem as can always park right outside. I always bring shopping in first, then children can be released from carseats - but when tiny, baby first as they are safe in seat in the house, and in case a big lorry plunges into my car whilst I am bringing in the shopping (paranoid mum!). Maybe you'll have to wait until they wake up.

SnappyLaGore · 31/01/2008 11:40

if shes sleeping, id make sure i had keys on me in case of lock outs and run down to car and get it done as quickly as poss. in fact, so long as shes safe id do it with her awake too, but asleep she wont even notice.

ahhh, its a whole new world, becoming a parent, eh? the conundrums you never imagined existed... the skills you never had any idea youd need to learn ever...

welcome

FourPlusOne · 31/01/2008 11:40

Or like oranges said, run quickly if it's a short street.

sleepycat · 31/01/2008 11:41

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StealthPolarBear · 31/01/2008 11:43

I wondered about this kind of thing so much at the start - how on earth do you do this? Is this acceptable.
Infact I still do and DS is 9 months!

Sunshinemummy · 31/01/2008 11:44

Providing I was going to be no longer than a couple of mins, I would probably leave DS, run to car and run back.

SnappyLaGore · 31/01/2008 11:45

no wonder your brain goes to mush eh? suddenly simple things like remembering your keys become life and death important fgs. you have to re-learn almost everything you knew on top of a whole world of new skills, not to mention military planning to do complicated things like go to the shop

cupsoftea · 31/01/2008 11:47

could you pop her in a babysling?

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Sarahjct · 31/01/2008 11:48

Run?

What if I get blown under a car? Or trip and fall and lose my memory and can't tell people I've got a small baby in the house that needs looking after while I go to A&E.

The responsibilities of parenthood... And why am I sitting on this computer when I need a shower, the dishwasher needs loading and there are a zillion more useful things I should be doing while she is asleep?

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dirtygertiefromnumber30 · 31/01/2008 11:48

i live opposite ds' school and often leave dd (1) asleep in cot as i run over and pick him up / drop off.

With the shopping thing, I leave the baby in the car as i unpack (i dont have a drive so am parked on the street)

Fine imo.

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Sarahjct · 31/01/2008 11:53

Just opened front room blinds and seen car sitting outside. DH must have moved it this morning when he went to work (bless).

Serves me right for being the lazy tart that I am and leaving the blinds down till midday...

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Niecie · 31/01/2008 11:55

I would leave the baby and run for it if it won't take a minute. I know with the first you hate to leave them to cry (assuming you are worried she will wake up) but honestly, doesn't actually do them any harm occasionally - hardest part of having the second child is realising that sometimes you have to leave them to cry for a minute or two.

Just don't forget your keys. In fact never put your keys down until you and your lo are both inside because it is so easy for doors to blow or be pushed shut (by toddlers) and you to be trapped on the wrong side of the front door.

Babies in car seats go in the house first before shopping. Toddlers stay in the car (strapped in and safe) until the shopping is in or they try and follow out of the door into the road.

Difficult one though - I always used to hate petrol stations. Take them in or leave them outside?

SnappyLaGore · 31/01/2008 11:56

ahhh sarah jct, youre bringing back (not v distant) memories.... welcome to our world

it gets easier. honest.

SnappyLaGore · 31/01/2008 11:57

and youre right, dont run.

i use it as a figure of speech actually anyway. i would actually run fgs

bozza · 31/01/2008 11:58

Good on DH. If you are really worried about something happening to you while you run down the street (bearing in mind that feasibly you could also fall down the stairs and bang your head without even leaving the house and nobody would know) another time you could ring DH and say that if you have not rung back in 10 mins, he should try to get hold of you. But if you do, don't forget to ring back and leave him in a panic.

SnappyLaGore · 31/01/2008 12:00

re petrol stations; apparently its illegal to leave em in the car

i once took all 3 of my little people into the shop with me, aged 4, 3 and under2... and the glares i got from busybodies concerned citizens were quite something! good thing i was not feeling, um, delicate. i just smile sweetly.

i actually leave them in the car almost always. i beleive its safer and if anyone wants to take me to task on it theyre welcome to. I know whats best for my babies ta v much.

Fennel · 31/01/2008 12:01

I would just take the baby and pop it back in the cot after, but I used to work on the basis that if you kept shifting them about when asleep - in and out of buggy, to and fro in sling - they got used to it and then you didn't have to spend your life dominated by The Baby's Nap Time.

SnappyLaGore · 31/01/2008 12:01

and agree with bozza - well done dh.

kittywise · 31/01/2008 12:02

I leave 'em in the car, I hope they won't be there when I come back

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Lazycow · 31/01/2008 12:15

Difficult one,. Ideally put them in a sling and take them but in reality if I'd doen that with ds he would defoo have woken up and I'd have had him crying for a long time afterwards.

I generally just left what I needed unless it was really urgent or would wait until he wokr up and go and get it then with said baby in a sling.

However I live in flats with bad parking and I can't tell you the number of times I lugged a small baby and the bags I really need out of the car which is parked 1/2 a mile up the road in trudged to my flat in the rain/wind even snow. You get used to anythign really.

I always kept a sling in the car and would use that. If ds was asleep and I didn't want to wake him I'd carry the car seat and the as many bags as I could manage and leave the rest. Luckily ds rarely fell asleep in the car - he just cried - but that is a whole other story!!

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