Mum bored at home

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any mum bored at home with a 6 month old baby?

Am sat in waiting for someone to come round for coffee with my 6 week old.

Not exactly thrilled to be sat on my arse still at 11am.

Although that is my fault for saying "come anytime" - should have said 10.

Just read that, she is coming for coffee with me, the 6 week old will be having milk obviously!

i'm so stuck in a routine.. btwn feeding and sleeping.. I just get so bored. Wish I could do something for myself, but you never know when the lo will playup. besides doing the laundry, housework, preparing bottles, and babyfood... its sad, but i'm missing work.. or rather the interaction with work colleagues

I though you were talking to me then.

I'm bored mum and 6 month old dd is desperately trying not to nap.

Aren't there loads of groups you can go and join? I was worried I would go mad when I was on maternity leave so I made sure I had a different activity arranged for each morning e.g. baby swimming classes, music groups, NCT coffee mornings. I know what you mean though, after a year off it was nice to get back to work again.

i do belong to meet ups.. but sometimes, there's just so much you can talk about pooh, sleeping, and feeding. Also, I'm so stuck in my routine, don't like to disrupt the lo's sleeping pattern, and don't really do breastfeeding in public.

I know what you mean about all the baby talk! Its like your previous life or your professional life don't exist anymore. I sometimes used to meet up with people from work at lunch time because they would talk about other things.

can I join this club, even though ds is 17m?

he is a good morning napper, so we never made it to the clubs round here which are all in the mornings . and as we are a bit skint, our afternoons consist of the park. Or if I'm really lucky, tesco!!

Yes I remember being all het up for anything unusual to happen and then to be BORED BORED BORED by the endless repetition.

Hugs - and, it gets better - i.e. less boring - the repetition is crushing though isn't it.

I read a lot of books, and restarted my french when breastfeeding, and folding muslin squares and other laundry laundry laundry and a freind listened to War and Peace on audio as she said she'd never get round to it again if she didn't listen to it when she was b/f.

take up a language? a craft? I can SO understand the knitting - needlework lace making crafts our grannies did.

o ffs.
enjoy this time. it wont come back
all your baby needs is feeding, cleaning, and more feeding cleaning. you can do other things at the same time. your baby stays where you put them. your house has not yet beent aken over by the lo. if you think it has, wait a few more years, and then you will longingly look back at this time when you could siot and read a book, or stick baby in the pushcahir and go for a walk in the park, or to a friends house, or anywhere at all
try arguing with an 11 year old. or try taking them someplace they dont want to go. ha! you will remember the 6 month old angel then.
or try taking active 5 and 6 year olds to a house full of china. even though they will be on their best behaviour, you will be so stressed about possible breakages, bad behaviour, you wont be able to relax. whats the worst a six month old can do? poo all over the changing mat? vomit clean milky vomit everywhere? have you seen the sort of vomit an older child brings up?
read, chat online, knit, go out for a walk. stroll round the shops, anything is possible with a six motnh old.

i know what you mean zazen and phdlife. i'm always in the park in the afternoon... and yes.. folding .. and more folding of those muslim cloths!! i used to do French at work.. how did you learn french?
I know when I go back to work in 3 months, I'm going to wish I had the time off wit the lo... the grass will always be greener... as the saying goes...
wish there was a split maternity leave... say around the first 10months when the lo is born.... and then another 10 months when they are more interactive.

OTOH I remember 6-9 mo as a low point. I got so bored, tired and frustrated generally. And I did get out every day! Dd's 3 now and I prefer having a child to having a baby TBH. It's, er, stressful, but a lot more interesting and you are never trapped in the house while they nap (actually I totally gave that up and opted for napping in the car - couldn't stand being tied to a routine).

peanut - I often think that just as dd is getting really fun and interesting she will be off to school.

I used to take DD to Wisley Gardens. I bought National Trust and RHS memberships early on in my mat leave and would head off to those places to get out of the house. I'd often meet my NCT buddies there too.

i know what you mean zazen and phdlife. i'm always in the park in the afternoon... and yes.. folding .. and more folding of those muslim cloths!! i used to do French at work.. how did you learn french?
I know when I go back to work in 3 months, I'm going to wish I had the time off wit the lo... the grass will always be greener... as the saying goes...
wish there was a split maternity leave... say around the first 10months when the lo is born.... and then another 10 months when they are more interactive.

sorry.. posted this twice... sleep deprivation

why won't you bfeed when you're out ?
that is so restrictive for you and alot of places have rooms so you don't have to dash home
you can cover yourself up and bfeed so no-one can even tell what your doing

I'm weaning my lo now, but it's difficult with starting solids, and warming his food up.. so alot of stuff, I don't want to have to take with me. And my lo been 6 months.. he has learnt how to take the muslim cloth i cover with off.

You don't have to warm food up. I used to take pots of soft food to eat at room temperature. I think you could make things easier for yourself.

MusliN cloth!!

sorry, for the misspelling... no wonder you're called grammaticus. I did mean MusliN cloth. thks Acinonyx, you're probably right.

When they're weaning it's just as easy to pop a few pots of organic puree into a little bag and skip off to a park and feed your Lo there. I used to do this all the time - just to see people
I wouldn't warm up anything, just feed my Lo from the pots. She used to eat a LOT (about 1Kg a day) so I used to bring quite a few pots and rice cakies, fruit etc. Have you a scarf to cover yourself up when you're b/f outside? I used to wrap us up and go for it - found a lovely bench in a local park's rose garden and had a fabulous time!! I have such nice memories of her infancy.

At the time I was bored just doing the laundry and puree etc tasks, but I loved watching DD change and grow - we did a lot of massage and it was lovely as she wasn't wriggling away and causing mayhem.

Try and meet other mums when you're out - it really helped lift my spirits and I would move hell and high water not to miss a rendezvous. Other mums were in the same boat and were all equally desperate for adult company.

I re-learned french as it was so quiet and peaceful breastfeeding - my DD used fall asleep on the boob and she'd feed sip sip sip for hours - I had one hand free to hold a book - and I got the new curriculum books and CDs from a local school supply shop.

I hear you stitch!! Ha ha ha. Mon Dieu! Now, at 4yo I have a Hurricane, then I had trapped wind!! I didn't know my luck

work your routine around the groups. take a shawl and no one will be able to see you feeding.

we do something every morning cos otherwise i would be bored stiff. we did story time at the library monday morning (can't do it now cos he has playgroup then), toddler group tues morning, tumble tots wed morning (have to wait til they can crawl for this though) and toddler group wed afternoon, toddler group thurs morning and music group fri afternoon.

inbetween i would fit in a walk to the park or the shops or a friend's house just to get out of the house.

weaning when out is easy. you either do blw and take little sandwiches, rice cakes, fruit etc or you buy something out and mash it up for them or you take puree and give it at room temperature. so many different possiblilities.

also don't think they can only nap at home. it is fine to let them nap in the car/buggy aswell.

I went back to work at six months (and at three for dd). I found the baby stuff frustrating and boring. I'm very glad it will never come back I enjoy my children more and more as they grow up. I certainly wouldn't swop my nine and eight year old for babies! They do get more and more interactive as they get older, so you have lots of lovely stuff ahead of you.