If you are home alone with 2wo baby, what does your day look like?

[Sparrowlegs248]

Just wondering if mybdays are pretty normal or not.

We went to bed at about 11 last night. DS had a happy change and feed
He woke at 12,1,2,3.30........ DH got up at 4 and went to work. I changed nappy then spent til 8 dozing/feeding/chatting to DS. He wa veryvawake then so more chatting, winding, put radio on. Fed some more, got up about 10.15 (had Bernard up fed cats got cuppa prior to that) DS napped, I did last nights washing up, swept floors, bit of tidying, washed and dressed myself. Made lunch. DH home. Had lunch together. Fed again. DH leaves, MIL arrives 3.30. Feed more. DS nap on me. Mil leaves. Feed cats. Continuation offending DS and him napping.He's in Moses basket now and im laying on bed. Expect couple hours of feeding on and off then Will try for an earlier night so i can grab an hour 2 would be nice before late feed.

Does this sound normal ish? Not an awful lot of putting the baby down.

Miss twister I think your post and mine just highlight how hard it is to know whsts 'right'. I don't want to 'create' a cling baby, but can't leave him upset. Hour baby is happy to lay on her own but you are worried about somehow damaging her. Its so blummin hard"!

DD2 is almost 7months and we still don't manage that some days!! I have ore existing health conditions which don't help but tbh I go with is baby just wants feeding and holding who am I to say no

I dredged my brain for 2 week memories.

Boyfriend would go to work at 7.30, before he went I'd get up and have a bath for stitches reasons.
I'd go back to bed with the baby until maybe 9.30/10. I usually tried to be downstairs by the time Homes Under the Hammer came on at 10.
Watch that while eating breakfast one handed and feeding.
We'd go out after that - in the first 6 weeks after she was born I walked a LOT with another baby friend (sometimes we'd walk 8 miles or more), stop for coffee/cake/lunch and feeding.
I'd nearly always be home by 5.15 ready for Pointless on telly (I know, but I was watching a lot of TV at that point!). Depending on how the baby was I might make some attempts at dinner cooking with her in a sling or in a bouncer on the kitchen top. Sometimes I just sat and read a book with her asleep on me or feeding.
I'd take her to bed with me at 8.30ish, boyfriend slept in another room.
She fed pretty much every 3 hours all night and day at that point, so awake half the night. It wasn't 'awful' though.

That was the pattern for me until about 13/14 weeks when her sleep went to shit and I was too tired to walk far.

Oh, on the cuddle front - I held her for the first 13/14 weeks, either directly or in a sling - that was when we were out walking too. We lived on a freezing cold building site of a house, there wasn't anywhere reasonable to put her down. She's now almost 10 months and one of the most independent babies in our baby-friend group. I still carry her in a ring sling or ruck sack more than I use a pushchair, but I don't think you create a personality as much as you think you do.

ohthegoats we used to make it down for Homes Under the Hammer too!!

Oh... memories

Only difference is that I got out of the house every single day from the day I was home from the hospital. Pram Or Carrier. Would get myself a take away latte and then wander around shops or park.

I also did housework from very early on. No family around. The thought of living in a dirty messy house would be actually result in me enjoying the time with my children less

I began getting together with nct friends around week 4.

I'd say at week 2 it all sounds pretty healthy and normal to me

Back to back Come Dine With Me episodes I recall very clearly too.

Oh and lastly. . I put both mine down in their moses baskets alone from day 1.