What do you get done when you have a five week old?

[LemonSaturdays]

Just curious! Particularly with the lockdown, I feel like some of my days lack any meaning or definition from the last!

Yesterday the baby napped well so I blitzed the house and went on a long walk with DH and baby, but today I haven’t accomplished anything except cuddling baby (which is enjoyable!)

Tell me about your typical day in lockdown if you have a newborn?

Lots and lots of knitting!

Nothing much other than feeding, changing both our clothes after DD being sick, changing nappies and starting all over again.
It was a long time ago now though. It used to take me until about 2 to get ready to go to the clinic!

Some days absolutely nothing apart from getting dressed and sitting on the sofa watching tv whilst DS slept on me.

From memory ( mine are much older) you sound like you are doing loads. What else could you do at the moment? Plus you should spend some time gazing at your bundle wondering how you managed to create perfection.

Obsessively googling if I was doing things correctly, trying desperately to breastfeed (took up most of my time as I have gargantuan boobies) and going on lots of walks to get some fresh air. It's much different now ofcourse, we would take baby to a cafe so we could have some breakfast and just mull about really. I can imagine being confined to your home with such a small little one might make the time pass slower. Congratulations on your newish arrival!

Breastfeeding. Eating. Getting showered and dressed.

Anything on top of that was a bonus -little bugger didn’t sleep-

Nothing!

I basically sat on the sofa for a year breastfed and cuddled my baby. I don’t regret it one bit as she’s nearly 2 know and all I do is run around after her!

Thank you ladies , this already makes me feel much better.
@Ilovethekittehs 😂 you’re so right about the googling! And it seems no matter what question you ask, the answer is always allergies or reflux 🤦🏻‍♀️

I watched a lot of good tv at that age! It's great because it can be scary / violent and baby doesn't have a clue!

Nursing baby. Changing nappies. Letting baby sleep on me.

Pretty much sums it up

OP you need this book! I highly recommend it.

What Mothers Do: especially when it looks like nothing

a few years ago now but frankly not a lot at all. just watched quite a lot of daytime TV (and nighttime) as the little toad fed constantly and never slept but wouldn't be put down.

For the first couple of months I spent the whole time feeding, winding, changing nappies and cuddling them (twins) whilst they slept..oh and watched a lot of Netflix!! You don’t need to be doing anything else, although I would say get out for a walk every day if you can for your own sanity!

Sweet FA.

I don't think I got any housework done until she was about 5 months old? I'm v impressed at your blitzing.

It was a bit different though then because I could go out and about. I would highly recommend a good book, something uplifting!

Erm, nothing!! You have a five week old, your job is to feed the five week old, maybe wash their clothes, any bottles/pump parts you are using, feed yourself, wee, brush your teeth once every couple of days, shower a bit less than that and any time they let you put them down/hand them to a willing volunteer GET ANY SCRAP OF SLEEP YOU CAN!!!!

In fact, if you can hand off any of the washing jobs to anybody else do. If you're bottlefeeding, same for feeding!

They really do need constant round the clock care at that age and it is exhausting, so prioritise your basic needs and theirs and forget anything else.

Also take lots of photos of the baby from various different angles. V important :o

I think around that time was when I was so tired I dropped my phone down the toilet.

Pretty much it really.

I ate a lot of chocolate buttons, chugged water, googled, stared at her for 23 hours of every 24, slept a little, cried a bit. You're not meant to be doing anything!

First baby: Fretting, trying to keep to a schedule she didn’t care a jot about, hot-housing her, fretting again, cleaning.

Second baby: Cuddles.

Absolutely nothing - if you managed to get up get clean, get dressed, feed baby and yourself then that a productive day at 5 weeks generally- if you can do all that in this current climate of strangeness then you are most definitely awesome- enjoy the cuddles op

Sweet FA. I get out more during lockdown than I did when DD was five weeks. I'd wait til she was asleep and collect all the snacks I needed, then cuddle her and binge watch Netflix all day (occasionally napping) until DH got home and I could have a nice bath.

She woke to feed approximately every 90 minutes through the night. I was destroyed.

Honestly, the house never looked tidier, I had straightened hair, I did a lot of baking and obviously a lot of feeding and playing with baby. Oh and some napping and messing round on the internet. A lot of the above was with baby strapped to me in the sling.

It didn't last. A year later, the house was a tip, I rarely baked and my hair lived in a mum bun. I had/have a little monkey who untidied faster than I could tidy, needed more entertaining and napped less.

Some people find they get more done in the early months, some people find it's the other way round.everyones experiences are different.

Mine was pre lockdown but basically all I did was cry and Google things frantically!

Literally nothing.

1st child didn't sleep... So nothing... Well we all survived and got fed but that was it!
2nd...entertained the toddler..