When do you shower?!

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Ds is 11m and into everything. I used to find everyday things like having a shower so much easier as he would sit in his bouncy chair in the bathroom and watch me. He's now outgrown it. When do you shower or what do you do with child? He will just cry if I put him in cot to play. Friend suggested at nap time , but sometimes I need to be out the door before then and like him to have the nap in the car.

I would get up at 6:30 so I could have a shower and get dressed before DH left for work at 7:15 - DCs may or may not be up by then, but DH was in charge until he went to work.

Or, I get up early to shower.

Obviously listening to them cry of they do isn't nice but needs must. And tbh I think I love in an alternate universe sometimes because dc2? Well they are always left to cry. You can't leave dc1 at school because dc 2 needs a cuddle for an hour. Dc2 might have to wait for a bottle because bus was late on way back from picking up dc1

Dc1 has a party and so dc2 is out later than nap time and gets cranky.

It's unavoidable and living life in a constant panic about a baby crying is too much like hard work and unrealistic :o

Dc2 is 11 months and now too big for the bouncer so has to be left in his cot with toys screaming at the top of his voice!! I remember the same with DC1 and it did get better at some point.

Toys and books in cot, sometimes put music on too. Showering and using the toilet is not a spectator sport in our house either and I'm probably going to sound very harsh but weighing up the hassle element I'd much rather have DS a bit grumpy in his cot than trying to navigate a toddler round the bathroom whilst I try to shower. It's ok while your baby is not mobile, but once they are I fail to see how it's at all safe to have then in the bathroom while you shower? And once the habit of them joining you in the bathroom has been established, how is it fairly going to change when it's no longer safe? I'd say get him used to playing in his cot.

My DS wakes anywhere between 5 and 7.30am, I get up at 6 for work. If I hear him before my shower then I'll put the light on and give him toys and books, he's so used to in now that he doesn't mind hanging out in his cot while I get ready. If DH has time then he might start getting him ready but usually he just waits for me. When he was smaller he used to get grumpy but now he's fine.

Baby stage: put in cot

Toddler stage: I try to shower after bedtime but if needed DS comes in the bathroom with me and plays on the floor or on the landing where i can still see him. I do often have to tempt him with using the ipad. Does mean our shower curtain is a bit irrelevant! He once wandered off but i called him back successfully without exiting the shower. I'm only in there max 5mins. Stairgate is shut.