Same old life

Same question! I find the repetition of the same thing every single day so hard

Drives me crazy 😔

I'm still in the newborn bubble and have found it tricky, but I do try to go for a walk or a coffee every other day. I do worry about things becoming too repetitive though..

We…don’t. I take him out nearly every day since he was 2m although he starts school this year…I took him to a playcentre today, he goes to school tmr. Do you have a car? Can you get out? Look for baby groups and mothers groups to go to. Playcentres, kids places, zoos museums. Libraries, animal farms. Ikea, even. There, I meet some mums and we do play dates and every day we go somewhere different, it’s not the same for me. I purposely make every day different or else I’d go insane and be utterly depressed.

I started looking up the req and parks for my city I check out the free events that’s going on and save the dates so I can be more active. That’s how I found out the city offered swimming lessons for my little for a small fee compared to what I’d pay for private lessons. When nothing is going on in my city I check out the parks and req website for other cities.

We go for a walk every day I try to walk somewhere different. I purposely order things to stores so I have to go collect them. I'm looking at going to some Mother and Baby groups. But I have social anxiety so that's putting me off a little.

The repetition is so hard! I try to set an itinerary for every day. I usually take my little boy somewhere every morning (play groups, park, etc.) and then do any tasks that need doing after his nap in the afternoon (shopping, cooking, etc.). Basically I split our days into different activities so we don't just end up sitting around all day as this is too hard with a toddler. I also try to remind myself that this routine won't last forever.

@Sarah the baby sessions at the library don’t need any socialising at all, if you don’t want to. The librarian reads books and plays music and gives out instruments to the kids to play w the music…at the end they get a sticker/stamp and she turns on the bubble machine and they play w bubbles. They focus on the librarian, she’s hosting every minute of it. Baby bounce is on here 3 days a week at my local library and that’s a 0-18m session then there’s storytime for the 3-5yr olds. If I don’t want to talk to anyone that day, I don’t have to I’ll just focus on my own kid having fun. ☺️ it’s totally different from a mothers group. (And perfect for social anxiety)

@Kellie Thank you! I'll look up our local library for these sessions! Great idea ❤️

My baby cries in the stroller or carrier so I just feel trapped at home

@Neda my little boy was like this for the first few months, and it's so hard. I really feel for you. Wish I could give advice but I didn't find anything that worked really, he just grew out of it. We also realised at around 5 months he had a cow's milk allergy, so once this was sorted he was generally more content.

@Caitlin thank you, it's good to know that it will change 🙏

How do you do these things at 3 weeks, recovering from a grim c-section and unable to drive for another couple of weeks? 😔

We plan the week before what we are doing the following week whether it's soft play a group the park seeing friends and then it's something different everyday x

I am hanging on by a thread

@Christianah Dogood SAME 😬

The routines are my lifeline! I thrive on routine it helps me get all the things done. Of course free time is important too and we have fun non-routine adventures several times a week.

It’s really hard, I couldn’t cope with doing the same thing every day, so from 6 weeks old I have taken him out every day all over the place. We’ve been to soft plays, the zoo, safari park, libraries, parks, baby groups and classes, swimming, the beach, the cinema, hikes, bike rides (with him in a baby seat on my bike), museums, play cafes, painting places, and for a tour of our city on an open top bus. I’m not very good at staying in the house with him!

Break the routine! Even when you don’t feel like you have the energy get out and do something small even if it’s a walk around the block because the fresh air and sunshine and exercise is so refreshing. Schedule little outings. This past week was warm and sunny summer like weather so I took my son to the park daily. Just that one small change was so good for us both. The local library is always a fun go to also.

I used to go out all the time but the weather is rough for a while