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.

It's the least interesting part of the child development stage for me. Incredibly dull.

I was bored witless. I signed up to every activity and group I could as soon as they were old enough. They were all tedious, but not as boring as being at home all day.

Can you start taking him to baby groups OP? They're really for you at this stage, not him! Chatting to other parents saved my sanity.

I lived it, but I treated it a bit like a holiday with demanding baggage. So I went away a bit, went shopping (ok mostly browsing), catched up with friends who worked non standard hours, wandered round art galleries, museums etc. Basically I did the stuff I wanted with baby in tow. I also found through baby groups some friends and we drank a lot of coffee whilst eating cake. That all changed when baby got older and more demanding and needed more entertaining. It became more baby centric by 6m, so make the most of doing what you want.

I remember that boredom well. I went to some play groups and classes, but definitely more for my benefit than baby's - church playgroups are cheap, no commitment if you don't make it it doesn't matter. Met up with friends with similar aged babies - i was fortunate 4 other women who i already knew pre-baby had babies around the same time, we saw a lot of each other. And I did a lot of walking with podcasts/audiobooks and watched a fair bit of TV.

I read half the library when DD was newborn. In between panicking that I was clearly missing something massive since everyone else seemed so busy.

That said, I couldn’t put her down and do housework or cooking etc. She was utterly Velcro.

On the bright side, this is the ideal time to find a new favourite author or TV series!

I wasn’t bored but that’s because the baby just came out and about with me to my horses / dog walks etc and all the things that I filled my days with before the baby .

Can you attend some mother and baby groups?
In my area they do mother and baby reformer Pilates.
Plenty of coffee and cake meet ups in local churches as well. Are you planning on starting maybe swimming lessons ? Mix of all of that will give you something else to do than just fed/go for walks/sleep.

No but when my baby was a month old I was in an incredibly social group. We would all take our babies to the pub for lunch and a wine, or attempt to do yoga with them, go for a cocktail and nibbles at a baby cinema screaming, (normal blockbuster release not kids tv), explore touristy London or catch up on trash tv together.
I wasn’t really ever spending days and days at home with just me and a baby.

I'm pretty confident that evolution has made babies start to smile at 6 weeks because that's when you're beginning to consider throwing them out if a window.

sorry but i don't get how you can be bored.. you can basocly do anything!! your time is finally your own with no job to turn up to, and no toddler bedtime or school pick up to get back to.
wotj my first i went to countless galleries, exhibitions, baby cinema, checked out coffee shops, restaurants and walks id never done, visited other cities and little villages, national trust properties, museums, and met up with other new mums. in between all that i watched lots of stuff on netflix! also cooked some nice things for when my DH got in.
change it up now! it's the only chance you get for this level of freedom

Oh I wish I had this. I feel like my baby cried so much. I was totally up for a slow chilled time walking lots and watching trash tv while feeding.

Instead I got a non latching and very unsettled baby. Utterly adorable and love him lots but very high screaming.

It's wild how different they all are.

Yes but when I look back it was a very special time

Totally! Going from working full time till nothing but a baby that doesn’t do anything but feed, sleep, cry and poop and I was counting the minutes til bedtime for him and when my DH would be home. I went back to work at five months.

I went back to work early too. It definitely helped with the boredom.

Newborns are relentlessly tedious. It's just the same things all day every day on repeat but people won't say it in real life. Obviously as they get older it gets much better, believe me you'll be wishing for the boredom when they start crawling and getting into every dangerous thing they can 🤣

Totally this. What I'd give for that freedom now.