Stay at home mums getting organised in 2010

ragz_2

When my ds was little (hes nearly 2) I struggled with what to do when showering ect.. I found the best thing for me was to put him in his bouncy chair in the bathroom and he watched me have a shower.

I agree showering with the baby in another room wouldn't work as you can't hear them but my SIL always said just stick baby in a chair in the bathroom and let him watch!
Never an issue for me as I prefer to take my time so I always showered/bathed in the evening too. But a good tip anyway.

rainbow81 wrote: »

Hi there,

Isn't 8 months the age when separation anxiety is supposed to start? (I didn't get it till age 3 but that's another story).

x

It certainly is. baby is suddenly realising he is a seperate person and that Mummy can be in other places! The following quote from Babyworld puts it well

Up until your baby reaches six months old, she thinks she is still attached to you. However, after this age she becomes more aware of strangers, as babyworld health visitor Debbie Honer explains. "Separation anxiety affects all babies to some degree, but some more than others. It begins at around seven months, peaks just after the first birthday and gradually declines up to the age of three."

Rest of the article here http://www.babyworld.co.uk/information/baby/baby_development/separation_anxiety.asp

Welcome Newbies!

MoneysavingDive congrats on scan xx

Done a lot of the Flylady list today, off to do a bit more, keep getting tightenings though so hoping baby is not deciding to come early - snow falling thick and fast here so they may cancel home births again and I really want to be able to have her at home...

mumOf2wonderfulkids

ragz wrote: »

Done a lot of the Flylady list today, off to do a bit more, keep getting tightenings though so hoping baby is not deciding to come early - snow falling thick and fast here so they may cancel home births again and I really want to be able to have her at home...

keeping fingers crossed for you Ragz

what is Flylady? everyone keeps mentioning it but i have no idea what it is?

chazsucks

google flylady
she has a website to help with cleaning etc
she tries to get you into routines, morning, lunchtime, before bed etc
so it is easier to stay on top of all the other things you have to do without worrying about all the stuff you do in the routines, such as finish washing up
she also splits the house into zones so you do bits at a time, and they have decluttering missions and random things every day such as 'go to the cupboard under your sink remove everything, clean it and only put back the things you regularly use' etc etc

anyways the showering thing, i used to do that but now he can easily climb out of bouncy chair (going on ebay) and the only other thing i have that he sits in is a jumperoo which i can't really cart upstairs (i have 3 floors)... and i can't put him on the floor to play as now he is crawling and getting into EVERYTHING!! lol

chazsucks

OH btw how do I do the strikethrough is it html or bb code??? thanks

rainbow81

mumOf2wonderfulkids wrote: »

keeping fingers crossed for you Ragz

what is Flylady? everyone keeps mentioning it but i have no idea what it is?

Just to say Flylady can seem a bit overwhelming at first, depends on how organised you are already I think! Don't try and do everything she tells you, it'll send you nuts.

rainbow81

chazsucks wrote: »

OH btw how do I do the strikethrough is it html or bb code??? thanks

Click edit under your post and then go advanced. There's a font bit at the top then and you can make you posts look [STRIKE]nice [/STRIKE]pretty.

huston_kw

mumOf2wonderfulkids wrote: »

Morning everyone and Hello to everyone joining

edit to add * what is this flylady everyone keeps talking about? can someone enlighten me please

mumOf2wonderfulkids wrote: »

keeping fingers crossed for you Ragz

what is Flylady? everyone keeps mentioning it but i have no idea what it is?

The flylady what I'm do is on the OS board, link http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2195345. Each Sunday the lovely pigpen starts a new thread. She edits the first post each night (about 9ish) with a list of to dos for the next day, each day it's a different room yesterday was the kitchen. There are 3 levels and you get a star for doing all 3 levels, the list are for Monday to Friday - todays list is the bathroom & study. It's really fun but can be daunting at first. I've been following it for about 7 months and now the lists are easy for me as most of the time some things are still fine from week before. I don't post on there now as the thread becomes so long and I was spending more time reading than cleaning, so I just copy & paste list into open office and post to ask for my star if I do all three levels.

I know there is the flylady orginal site but it was too regimental for me.

mumOf2wonderfulkids

oh wow been looking at that flylady site, thanks for explaining

i most definately live in CHAOS! haha, i have signed up and waiting for the email now, although i probably wont get everything done on the days (work 3 days a week) i can certainly try, and then catch up on the days im off.

few more things done and crossed off the list, just need to stop getting sidetracked by the laptop *sigh*

chazsucks

also about flylady:
i joined a couple of years ago, got flooded with emails, got scared and un-joined and never looked at again till a few months ago. Since then I have just been following online, not subscribed to the emails.. I don't know if it has changed but when you used to get so many emails it was easy to get put off very quickly
Just a warning!

I've just seen the posts about seperation anxiety ... silly me i thought that happened when they were about 18 months maybe I should look into it, I wonder if there is anything I can do about it?

mumOf2wonderfulkids

ok here is my task list so far

• [STRIKE]tidy front room[/STRIKE]

• [STRIKE]tidy kitchen[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]hoover front room [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]hoover kitchen[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]wash front room floor [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]wash kitchen floor[/STRIKE]
• sort out pc desk and take pc upstairs will tidy in a min but put away f=over the weekend
• [STRIKE]sort out toys in living room[/STRIKE]
• hoover stairs will do once kids are asleep
• do enough washing to empty 3 baskets, dry then fold/put away just got to put away
  
• [STRIKE]sort out stuff for dinner / tea[/STRIKE]
• make food inventory / create dinner plan for next week
• pay credit cards
• [STRIKE]fluffed / hoover sofas[/STRIKE]

and i have also done

• [STRIKE] wash hair, dry and straighten and put makeup on [/STRIKE] (not a big deal but i hardly ever do that when at home
• [STRIKE]sort out clothes for everyone for tomorrow
• sort out something for me and dh for work lunch tomorrow[/STRIKE]

and i shined my sink!


this is probably not alot for some people but for me it's great!