Young baby - can I ask what you do in a day/week?

[PumpkinPie2013]

Hello

I'm a new mum to my gorgeous 5 week old boy and I'm finding this forum so helpful!!

I've been very lucky so far as I had a c-section so had DH home for 2 weeks, then my mum booked a week off to help when DH went back to work and now DH is coming to the end of 2 weeks Christmas hols so I've had someone around at home all the time.

However, Monday morning they are all back at work and I'm facing my first week all alone eek!

I live rurally and don't know anyone else with a baby so I'm trying to make a rough plan so I don't end up just sat at home going crazy and boring my poor ds!

So far I've found 3 groups/activities we can try.

One on Mon morning, one Wed afternoon and one Fri morning which is great but still leaves me thinking 'that still leaves the equivalent of 3.5 days to fill!'

I can go for walks I guess depending on the weather and will have to do some mundane things such as the food shopping and hope ds finds these ok!

Please share your day/week routine and tell me we'll be ok! x

3 new activities sounds plenty for a 5 week old!

You will meet people through these and that May led to coffee mornings etc

Make the mornings Activity Times and the afternoons naps and rest time. So maybe just try and think.of it as Tues and Thurs morning to fill.

Do you have a sling? I used to walk to the furthest away shop I could manage for a magazine, pint of milk.etc.

Id chill after lunch, have a little sofa nap if needs, then in the afternoon potch on with Housework while the LO has a lie on an activity mat.

I got in the habit v quickly of DH doing the bath/bottle/bed routine when he got in from.work so I could escape to the kitchen, make dinner for us and get a bit of baby free time.

I would make the most of baby stage where you can still easily go for lunch/ coffee shops/ anywhere really! It his stage goes very quickly and you will soon be running after a crawling /toddling child where I found it much harder to do things for 'me'. They become less like mini extensions of you....all normal and great but then you can do soft play, swimming etc.... Now i would catch up on sleep in the day, get my head in a good book, make a baby book of firsts as life does get more demanding the older they get IMO. Enjoy!!

Do a course online is another thing while baby is still having long naps! Go to places you find interesting, DS will be interested in whatever you do at this stage as everything's new to him

Totally agree with Outnumbrd :)

I found getting us both washed, fed and dressed took most of my mornings back then ;-) a walk every day if you can will be a lifesaver.

My DS is 9 weeks - I try to get out the house once a day or organise someone to come to me (not always a chum, HV counts too!). Monday, Tuesday and Friday I go to organised groups (two at the Children's Centre, one at a church hall), Wednesday is a coffee morning and Thursday is a my 'free' day. The more you get out the more groups you'll find out about and generally I've found everyone to be very welcoming and non-cliquey, which was a pleasant surprise!

I agree with the 'do something in the morning' post, little ones are often brighter then and just having a reason to get up helped me in the early days (pj days were great but felt grot in the end).

At that stage I went to the coffee shop, did the odd baby meet up class, walks in the park, lots of calls /texts/emails (kept me feeling social), watched lots of movies and basically tried to enjoy my lo as much as possible. I found he wasn't bothered by going out, but I enjoyed the air

Thanks for all the suggestions and advice

I am actually doing a course online outnumbrd so can work on that when ds sleeps.

I'd like to use a sling but ds is a big baby and I have a spinal problem so not sure it would work.

I think I'll stick with the three activities and the rest of the time do walks/visiting people/my course/read my book etc.

Luckily ds is ok sitting in his bouncy chair while I load the dishwasher or whatever as long as he can see me and I chat to him. He's intrigued by the mirror on it!!

First day tomorrow but it doesn't seem so scary now!

Thanks again xx

I think you'll have enough tomorrow with an activity planned, looking after DS and feeding yourself. That's way more than I was managing with my pfb at 5 weeks

Well I survived but the day didn't go quite as well as I hoped!

I'm full of a cold and feeling sick so we ended up staying in. I played with ds and sat him in his bouncer while I washed up which he seemed happy with.

Hoping to get out Wed if I feel better x

Sorry you are feeling rough. Hope you feel better soon and DH hasn't missed you both too much

Bloody hell, I really need to get organised - mine's 9mo and I still haven't found the time to join any groups! Come to think of it, I don't think I'd done more than walk round the block a few times at 5 weeks.

Same here Greta