Does anyone else find the newborn stage a bit boring sometimes

[Foxaroo]

i feel a bit awful even saying this but does anyone else find the newborn stage a bit boring sometimes?

my baby is a month old today and he is actually a really calm and good baby. he feeds well, sleeps ok for a newborn and doesnt cry loads. i know a lot of people have it much harder so i feel guilty even thinking this.

but some days feel really long. it feels like all we really do is feed, change nappies, go on walks and sleep and then repeat it again.

he is really alert for a newborn and looks around loads which is nice but obviously he cant really play yet or do much. sometimes i just sit there thinking what do people actually do all day with a baby this small.

i take him for walks in the pram most days just to get out the house but apart from that the days can feel a bit the same.

i honestly cant wait until he gets a bit bigger and is like 4 months or something when they start smiling properly and playing with toys and sitting up a bit more.

then i feel bad for thinking that because he is tiny and this stage wont last long and he really is a good baby.

just wondering if anyone else felt like this with a newborn or if its just me.

Honestly, I was so so bored when my first was a newborn. He was gorgeous and obviously I loved him, but the days didn't half drag on. I had a second two years later and enjoyed that much more, because there was always something going on to help the time pass, and toddlers are a lot of fun. Don't feel bad.

Yes totally. Not surprisingly babies aren’t exactly the most exciting things.

Sometimes? I was bored out of my mind. Much prefer toddlers and older!

Oh goodness, yes! Soooo boring! For me the worst thing was not being able to do anything complex, or even watch a program I needed to concentrate on, because the baby may wake up / need changing/ feeding at any moment!

Once they became more ‘interactive’ parenting became much more enjoyable for me.

Oh god yes. The bit before they could smile was just drudgery with no positive feedback. I much preferred 10 months plus. Mine are school age now and they get more interesting every year.

I didn’t mind the 0-3 bit of just sitting in front of the tv watching trash and snacking (except for being horrendously exhausted). But I found the baby stage overall, especially more like 5-12 months really boring. The constant entertaining and the eyes on the back of your head when they become mobile and never getting to sit down again, plus added loneliness and boredom, was rubbish.

I don’t think most people find babies very interesting to be around. I like mine a lot more now that we can chat and go off travelling together and I’m not constantly worrying if they’re going to crack their heads flipping off the sofa (though to be fair, my 13 year old has zero sense or spatial awareness so I am still worried about her cracking her head open flipping off the sofa, but at least it’s not my fault anymore if she does!).

So boring. I always forget how boring it was and then I spend some time with a new baby and I remember again. I don’t think it gets fun until they’re toddlers really.

This is the bit where you still have a lot of freedom. We took DS to house parties, nice dinners, had a few nice weekends away, etc. Did a long haul holiday at 4 months. We got zero sleep but he was so portable and everyone told us to make the most of it. Thank god we did.

It actually gets a hell of a lot harder to leave the house as they get older. By 6 months you'll be tied to a 7pm bedtime for years to come. They get grumpy if they don't take proper naps. Then God help you when they start walking, you're not sitting down again for years.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the toddler stage. DS is delightful. But everything revolves around him now as he's so demanding.

Put baby in the pram and go do stuff for yourself while you still can. See friends. Take a trip.

No, I wasn’t sleeping and I was in agony after loads of complications, and my baby cried any time I sat down.
but, after a few months when we couldn’t really ‘do’ much and I was feeling a bit better, yes.

I think just get out the house, that’s why people go to classes and see friends a lot. Find some good tv and movies and go for walks now the weather is getting better, get an audible subscription! Also just read books you like to them, and take them places you like to go, they’ll be interested in being out and changing lights at that point. It won’t be long until they’re on the move and it’ll be more exciting

Oh and your post reminded me that recently a friend with a newhorn baby asked me if I wanted to hold him. I did so as not to offend but I genuinely could not be arsed 😂 once you've had a toddler, babies seem soooooo boring

With my first I thought I loved the newborn stage, the cute chubby little peaceful baby (I was very lucky he was so peaceful!), but then when he became a toddler and I saw the comparison I was like holy shit this is way more fun 😅 needless to say when my second was born I was very much aware of the boredom in the first few months! Lucky my boy was two by then and kept me very much entertained while my youngest lay around like a little potato 😂

TOTALLY get this! I got so bored, but there was tumbleweed when I asked my NCT friends who else was feeling bored 😆

I feel like a weirdo but the newborn days were my absolute favourite for this reason - they don’t do much! I genuinely miss them so much and I’m a bit sad I’ll never experience it again.

Extremely boring. I went back to work at four and five months each time and didn’t even need to work at all. Felt 100% better. That was over twenty years ago and never a single regret.

Yes. Some days boredom, some days never ending awfulness, some days both of these at the same time. But lots of boredom. They don't do much and you can't do what you did pre-baby.

Nope. I adored that bit. (And not just because I like a baby to be where I left it.) I loved night feeds, soothing colic, I love to bore babies to sleep. The newborn stage is when I get to bore them. That’s how my strategy for creating rhythm and eventually routine. Once they start moving around, I get bored. Then I’m a bodyguard for a busy little person with no concept of danger or cause and effect. It’s exhausting. At any moment, if I’m not on my game, they might eat a Barbie shoe or fall down the stairs. But then they start learning to talk and I adore everything about it all over again. I could have had a third baby. I couldn’t have managed another 1 year old

Yep me too I loved just looking at their little heads and holding them (whilst watching a lot of netflix).

Yep they give a lot more back at 6 or 10 or 18 months but they also spend most of their time trying to kill themselves by throwing themselves off a bed or eating lego.

I could honestly have another baby just to chase the newborn high but not sure I want to do another boddler!

TBH Ive found myself bored every day since having a baby and shes 16 months ! (Not all day obv!) Just try not to spend the whole time wishing for the next stage. At least you get to sit down a lot, not the case once they are running around…

Is no-one interested in child development? Or how to stimulate their baby's brain/motor skills/language skills?

Do things for yourself, at this age they are very transportable and not very demanding. If you’re not knackered, go to museums, exhibitions, exercise classes..,my personal sweet spot was 4-7 months, DS could react, smile and play, slept a bit better, and I could still pop him in a sling and spend the day out and about.

No, none of us. Finding newborns boring means we don’t care at all.

I actually read loads about that, in an attempt to find it all interesting. But really, even stimulating the brain of a small baby involves a fair amount of tedium - singing songs, bold patterned/contrasting toys, tummy time, talking to them with lots of eye contact, peekaboo etc. All worthwhile, not knocking it, but it wasn’t interesting, especially after the 50th rendition of row row row your boat - my eldest DD’s favourite.

Almost everyone I think.

Newborn babies are dull as dishwater.

The solution is to do whatever you want/go wherever you want to go and just take him with you.

And spoiler alert...they're still really boring at 4 months old (but still portable thankfully).

The worst bit imo is around 8 months when they're STILL quite boring, but now need to be entertained!

You do you!!! Galleries,
box sets. Cooking! Hobbies. Enjoy.

i have 3 dc and newborn is the only stage you can properly relax IMO

I absolutely bloody loved it! Just me and baby in our little bubble!

To be fair I am a massive introvert so it really suited me.

Try to get out every day.