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Newborn and beauty routine

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Mamabear12 · 16/12/2013 09:38

How many are you able to keep up with your beauty routine? I feel like I am letting myself go! I spend most of the time in pjs...take showers every other day...skip washing face at night...rarely wear make up...havent had nails done since a few weeks prior to birth...shaving...well thank goodness its winter bc been skipping that as well!

I look forward to when I can actually start taking care of myself more...but with two young kids (22 month old and 7 week old!) I find it impossible!!!

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Tailtwister · 16/12/2013 09:41

Not unusual IME! I used to take a shower before DH left for work each morning as I knew it would be impossible to do once he went.

Things will get easier. What about booking yourself in for a treatment or two at the weekend? Maybe taking a nice bath if you can in the evening of there are an extra pair of hands around?

It is hard though.

ZuleikaD · 16/12/2013 09:50

'Beauty routine' LOL!

LastOneDancing · 16/12/2013 10:01

OH MY GOD, I'm supposed to maintain a 'beauty routine' too?!?!?

I'm stressed enough about simply keeping PFB and me alive in those first few weeks!

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AnythingNotEverything · 16/12/2013 10:01

I have no idea what you're talking about.

DD is 8 weeks. I shower every day, wash hair every other day, brush my teeth morning and night, do a deep conditioning hair mask once a week, and shaved my legs/tidied downstairs before my postnatal check in case the doctor wanted a look. Oh, I've also managed to cut my toenails twice.

Nothing else is important. I think you might be being over ambitious (especially with two DCs), but then I'm very low maintenance!

exhaustedandannoyed · 16/12/2013 10:30

Haha my DD is also 8 weeks and I managed to cut my toenails for the first time last night! I don't shower every day though but I do wash my face every night and morning, otherwise my skin would be really bad. Haven't done any shaving, am sporting the yeti look for Christmas!

I do usually get out of pyjamas at some point (sometimes have to take dd1 to nursery) but to be honest most of my clothes are so tight I hate wearing them or they are not good to breastfeed in and my maternity ones make me still look pregnant. I feel a right state at the moment.

minipie · 16/12/2013 10:32

I'm assuming Anything's post is a joke... either that or she has a very easy baby (so far...) and no other DC.

I aimed for a daily shower, clothes on and teeth brushed. Because I felt a lot less tired after a shower and if not in pjs. Everything else can go hang.

But then I've never really been into beauty regimes... only had nails done twice in my life!

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Mamabear12 · 16/12/2013 10:44

Thanks for your posts.

Luckily my mom is coming for a month this weds, so I will be able to have a little me time :) I just find it frustrating that I am not able to get things done and right now feeling frumpy - lack of keeping up my appearance and still having 10 kgs to drop! I gained 23 kgs with the pregnancy! BOO.

I forget when things start to get more normal! I know all babies are different...and this one doesnt sleep more then 3 hours at night. My first born slept 4-5 hours by this age!

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Artandco · 16/12/2013 10:47

I used to at newborn age take a shower in the evening and wash hair whilst dh played with them, then dh had a bath and took baby in with him. It was his bonding time as I breastfed. Whilst they had a 20 min bath or so I would dry hair/ paint nails/ clean face etc at same time.

It's actually a nice time as all of us would be in the bathroom chatting etc. now they are 2 and 4 years we still half do this. Now they bath together and on say mornings dh and I use this time in bathroom with them to shave/ shower/ makeup/ nails etc whilst watching/ chatting to them whilst they play.

We do have a decent size bathroom though!

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Mamabear12 · 16/12/2013 10:53

I try to get my husband more involved...he usually works a lot so doesnt help much. Even on weekends he works sometimes! He does help do a feed every day and a diaper change or two...

I do fit my shower in sometimes at night when my first one is sleeping and second one sleeps (he usually sleeps by 9pm but not always!).

I am trying to get him to sleep earlier, such at 8pm. I cant wait until he gets on a better schedule bc right now its not working for me!

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mustardtomango · 16/12/2013 14:36

I've got an 8 week old and a few little things have helped me: laying out clothes the night before (can choose clothes I want to wear /less scuzzy stuff than I'd end up with otherwise), having a Bouncer in the bathroom so I manage super quick showers, giving him to Dh for bonding time whilst I have a nice bath in the eve, and leaving my makeup in the lounge next to the chair - with ds feeding on the breastfeeding pillow I have 2 hands free and can do my makeup! Makes me feel a million times better.
Course sometimes it all goes to pot, but hey

roweeena · 16/12/2013 15:00

I have a rule that everyone has to be changed, dressed and in my case showered, hair washed and dried and dressed before we go downstairs and start the day. If I didn't do that I would never get going and would be stuck in the house forever.

Usually it takes an hour for all three of us to get ready - me, DS1 27 months and DS2 10 weeks. If DS2 is crying then I may have a shorter shower but I need to wash my hair everyday. I have short hair so it takes 5 mins to dry. I put make up on whilst DS1 is having his breakfast. Then out the house and to playgroup for 9.30am.

It's easily doable - but I'm not the most high maintenance in the 'beauty rountine' dept!

stowsettler · 16/12/2013 16:34

When DD was tiny I still managed a shower every day, dried my hair and did any required shaving. I would set up the breastfeeding pillow on the floor with towels underneath so she could just lie there and watch (if she wasn't sleeping).
Now she's 9mo and has a regular nap around 9am, so when I'm not in work I tend to wait until then and have a nice leisurely shower.
As to manicures, facials, haircuts etc - well I didn't do much of that before DD, so I haven't missed anything!

purplebaubles · 16/12/2013 16:37

I tend to look at well groomed, trendy mums with small children and presume that they must have lots of help! (mums/mils nearby, money for nursery so they can have 'me' time etc)

I struggle with my one year old to look half decent and I've got no 2 due in April. God knows how the hell I will have time then to worry about how I look! Be a miracle if I can get out of the house with two under 17months!

AntoinetteCosway · 16/12/2013 16:45

DD is 2.3 and I still have days when I don't brush my teeth until mid-morning

enormouse · 16/12/2013 16:47

I'm in a similar position, toddler ds and another one due late January.
I decided pretty early on with ds that something would have to go. It ended up being my hair - which is pixie cropped and I love it! This means I can still manage 5 minutes of make up if I'm going out somewhere and let my hair take care of itself. And I get my eyebrows threaded every 2-3weeks just before college. That's pretty much it, in terms of grooming.

AnythingNotEverything · 16/12/2013 16:49

Hang on minipie! I did mean "I've no idea what you're talking about" as in "what's a beauty routine?" not as in "you're being ridiculous if you can't manage a daily facial" ...

We don't tend to be ready to leave the house before 11am, and my other DC is 13, so I've had some practice!

minipie · 16/12/2013 16:51

Ahhhh apologies Anything! Still impressed by your hair conditioning and toenail cutting though

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Mamabear12 · 16/12/2013 20:08

Stow settler, if only it were that easy to let him watch as I did everything :) he lasts a short time before he cries if I put him down and he works himself up to a red in the face, barely breathing type cry fast (my first did this as well!). Even when he naps, he wakes after 5 mins unless he nappy w me, I'm bouncing him, walking him or sleeping on me! After 9pm he usually sleeps a couple hours on his own...by then I too tired to bother w any beauty stuff.

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BocaDeTrucha · 16/12/2013 22:08

Ds is 3 months and I've managed to get a shower every morning since he says born. I either leave him sleeping in our bed, or put him in his bouncy chair in the bathroom and sing to him. Occasionally I have to cut it short if he starts to cry, but generally it works OK.

But as far as beauty regimes go, make up consists of mascara, nothing else, but always has so no change there. I have managed a couple of manicures and a hair cut though, with dh looking after ds whilst I nip to the salon round the corner.

minipie · 16/12/2013 22:20

Fisher Price Rainforest Mobile

my key to a shower every day

the Tiny Love Classic one also works a treat

lolalotta · 17/12/2013 06:34

I put my 16 week old in her bouncer while I shower, she likes the sound of the water running. Then I sit her next to me when I blow-dry my hair too, she likes watching me!

Mummybo · 17/12/2013 06:39

I sit my 8 month old on a towel
In the bathroom sink in front of me while I do my make up!
Obviously I have to watch him like a hawk as he is mobile now but he sits very calmly there and lives the big mirror, shaving light and plastic bottles to play with!

PumpkinPie2013 · 17/12/2013 10:31

My little boy is 3 weeks old and I shower before DH leaves for work in the morning (at weekend we take turns to watch ds while the other showers).

I dry my hair downstairs as ds quite likes the noise of my hairdryer!

Brush my teeth straight after shower.

Don't really bother with make up (though never really did before I had ds) but put a bit on if going out.

I have short finger nails most of the time and have never painted them often.

BB01 · 17/12/2013 16:31

At first I'd have a shower and do the bare essentials before DH left for work but now, at six months, she can see usually stay calm enough for me to shower including hair wash and condition (a must for my v unruly hair), shave armpits (legs and bikini v rarely touched!), comb hair, dry hair for approx twenty secs, apply minimal make up and dress. Sometimes I only get to the dressed stage and so make up etc later while she's napping. It does get easy even with a velcro baby! Top tips are a musical/light up toy, crinkly toys for when they're older, making sure they can see you (I sit bouncy seat in front of clear shower door), try to have a 'spring clean' at weekend eg for me that's face mask, exfoliate, deep condition, fake tan on face to cut down on amount of make up needed! Also invest in some clothes that are easy to wear and will go with anything.

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Mamabear12 · 17/12/2013 21:46

Thanks for all the tips! Would be easier if my baby lasted more then 5-10 mins on baby swing, baby gym, bouncer etc. list goes on w all the toys we have for him :) his sister was same way! But slowly it is getting better and at least my mom arrives tomorrow. I plan to get nails done, massage, facial, eye brows threaded, buy new clothes!!! I am not liking the being too fat for my clothes but small for maternity clothes look! I have 10 more kgs to go...

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