17 month old, pregnant & husband WFH.. any tips

[frillseeking]

Hi,
Am currently 38 weeks pregnant and trying to stay at home as much as possible with DD who is 17 months and my DH is working from home. It's only early days and we're all finding it difficult as normally I could take DD out and about and be out of the house to allow DH to work but all of our playgroups and usual activities are cancelled anyway and I'm trying to keep a low profile as pregnant. I've got PGP so can't walk for too long so am desperately trying to think of things we can do. Any advice much welcome or just a nod from anyone in the same position. We've been ok but yesterday we felt very down and I felt very tearful and realised just how difficult this whole situation is for everyone x

Has he got any options on when he works? Could he get up super early and work for a few hours, then take a break until nap time and work again?

Some days that might be possible but today he's got conference calls all morning so he's locked himself away upstairs. I think even if we just get out at lunch for an hour it'll help

Have you got a garden OP? I find going out with my DS and letting him have a watering can whiles away 30 minutes or so. If you have some food colouring pop that in the can it makes it even more interesting!

If the weather is bad cushion fort in the living room? Inside picnic?

I also have a 17mo, so feel your pain. It's hard enough to entertain them in the house when you don't have PGP

Quiet indoor activites:
baking. We made shortbread, he didn't really enjoy mixing it as much as I would have imagined, but he did enjoy 'rolling it' (battering it with a rolling pin) and pushing the cutter into it
Rotate your toys. Put half of them away then bring them out in a week's time. They'll be new and exciting again.
Household chores. We did some dusting yesterday. He also seemed fascinated with the hoover. He enjoys helping me unload the cutlery from the dishwasher (you have to have a liberal attitude to toddler snot on your forks) and passing me things to hang on the airer (sometimes things end up other than on the airer).
I saw someone's idea about getting a few different boxes and throwing balls into them. We'll be trying that this weekend
One of my friends used to give her daughter a few different tupperware boxes and some pasta, she would spend ages moving dried pasta between them

You'll get through this!