SAHM Trying to navigate how to spend less time on phone

Put your phone in another room. Maybe place a timer. When you hear you go use it for like 10min or wait until baby is asleep. I use my phone when she takes a nap. It's usually an hour and a half to two hours. I don't have ig, fb, or tiktok but I do use my Spotify for audio books. You could play your podcast in a speaker or your audio book on one. Sometimes i have my book on my headphones but will play dollhouse with my little one while listening 🤣.

In this era of human life it is a common habit. I'll say it too before anything else that it is a hard habit to break. What I've been doing to be conscious about phone usage is to stop and think before using the phone: do I need to use it right now or just to entertain myself? Is your baby sleeping where they wouldn't know you are on it? If they are awake: i think to myself would I rather look back on memories of soaking in every moment interacting with my babies or would I REALLY be missing out on reading a post or watching a video? The time flies, trust me this is my 2nd and I think it's worth soaking in all the time possible.

When he was a newborn I was on more because of contact naps as he got older, we got busier with play and such- keeping alive as he learned to walk, climb etc. your day gets so busy and you end up not on it if you’re engaged. If you’re a new mom, is your daughter still taking 3 or more naps? That probably adds to the boredom for you. I found it just naturally decreased when he switched to 2 naos.

I spend a lot of time on my phone. But that’s because he’s out playing independently, at libraries or parks or playcentres- he runs off and plays and I’ll have my coffee watch something but look up every minute to make sure he’s okay. But, what I’m watching is not negative, and I’m not randomly scrolling peoples’ useless reels - I type in what I wanna watch be it dance, hair, nails, cooking, and I’m always learning, I’m watching tutorials. So my time on my phone is not “wasted”, I look forward to attempting a dance move or a new recipe etc. YouTube is fine, but not influencers that post their lives etc I don’t follow any of that, if I’m following anyone it’s because they have something to teach me.

Personally I used to go on my phone a lot when each of my children was younger, but as soon as they started growing up and got older their wasn’t any point that I could just sit down on my phone so I didn’t need to try and get myself not addicted to my phone anymore, it just come naturally as they needed more attention and showed they needed more attention and they had more needs that needed to be met.

Download an app to block all of those apps. Make a promise to yourself not to let her see you using your phone. Get an e-reader like Kindle that's ePaper so you have something to do during contact naps without feeding the dopamine addiction created by infinite scrolling.

What I did was set a timer on the apps through the phone or after the allotted time that would be okay for me to use it is up it's not allowing me to use those apps until midnight that night then at the time frame resets I have a 25 minute timer on FB YouTube Instagram and I completely uninstalled tiktok

@EM i did this recently but have LinkedIn still and recently found myself scrolling that once he’s asleep.

I know how you feel as I think we all Where/are sometimes like this have made a ticket for myself and my cliënts and it makes a Huge change if you are interested if this sounds something you are interested in LMk Shine your light mamma ✨

Your post helped give me insight! I am due in April and I also would like to be conscious of phone time as I will be a stay at home mom as well. Thanks for making this post and everyone who has commented. I plan to be as present as possible especially while she is awake. Time will go by too fast!