Anybody else LO still glued to u even when dad comes home from work? Frustrating!
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@Jenny i sometimes hide in the bathroom..i get about 45 seconds before she comes looking..so hard
@Hayley 🙈🙈 yes definitely! Then if he's crying with anyone else I find it hard to not go back because I'll pick him up and he stops instantly 🥺 my husband really has to try hard to play with him and distract him just so I can try and cook dinner or go to the toilet alone. If it's just me in the house I've got no chance! I have to hide if my husband is doing bed time as well or so he gets some decent play time with him. Otherwise he's just mostly doing things with me or he's reaching out to try and get back to me or he can be half asleep with my husband but he sees me and gets down from his lap and comes over to me wanting to be picked up. Bless him it's cute but so hard not to have much personal space/time to yourself sometimes.
@Jenny it really is..i found getting in the kitchen impossible to cook a decent meal. My partner doesnt live with us & some nights not here so i'm literally doing it all with my other son too. I brought a slow cooker/crock pot & find it easier as i prep the meal in stages in the morning then it cooks on low for 6 hours so all i have to do is dish up & i have more time to sort the baths or my sons home work ect in the evening..evenings a really hetic in my house so just gives me a little extra time
This sounds exactly like us! It’s really physically and mentally draining. I’m touched out all the time. The other issue I have is if I go on play dates is she still sticks to me and isn’t interested in other babies 🤷🏻♀️. @Hayley does your LO go to nursery? Mine does and this has actually made her clinginess worse so far as she panics when I leave a room
@Ness no to be honest i've worked in 4 different nurseries and i witnessed stuff i didnt like that shouldnt happen i had to report and i just couldnt ever put my child in 1 now after that. I'm sure most nurseries are great but its always stayed with me & i'll never put her in 1 for that reason. Most kids take a while to settle into a nursery setting thats normal.
@Hayley same! I can't cook anything decent so try to rely on ready meals or left overs or something just like beans on toast as otherwise it's so stressful trying to deal with him I end up with no appetite and then feel awful and hangry. End up having to give him some biscuits to nibble to keep him busy then eat with him, literally the only way 🙈
@Jenny honestly the same until i got a slow cooker its a game changer. U csn literally bump most meats in raw & the veg raw i buy recut veg too then leave it on to cook for 6 hours u got a decent health meal no drama no aggro no time in the kitchen either getting stressed Otherwise she gives me 5 minutes at best to get a meal sorted in the kitchen and we ended up with stuff om toast alot.done a full beef casserole took 5 minutes to dump the ingedients in then come evening 6 hours later full home cooked meal x
@Hayley nice ☺️ I've literally been buying ready chopped frozen veggies to try this as we were gifted a slow cooker... I'm really bad at knowing what to do until it's dinner time 🙈 I just need to start trying to think ahead and do the same I think. I'm worried about leaving it on when I go out tho but I've got plug timers I've bought so may put it on that just incase ☺️
Yeah my boy is like this... Unless I literally leave the house or hide he will look for me bless him. It's really hard as difficult to get any break when he won't leave you alone.