https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:23:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-582231 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:11:51 +0000 winniebee 582231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: @mediagirl: yesterday despite being fed and rested, he followed me around the whole time whining mamammamamama ememememem amammaam. Why is it "mamam" when he whines and "dadada" when he is excited/happy? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-582105 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:32:39 +0000 KayKay 582105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pack everything I can the night before. LO often sleeps til 7 (so I get up before then and do everything I can), but sometimes she throws a wrench in things and gets up at 5:30 or 6. I've baby-proofed the bathroom but left a drawer that she can open that is full of toys or things I don't care if she plays with while I shower and get ready. Other than that, the high-chair, pack-n-play, or quarantined in our babyproof-ed bedroom &amp; closet are my go-tos.. The mornings when she is super-clingy are definitely a challenge though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-582050 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:21:17 +0000 Weagle 582050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So, I don't get ready for work every morning, but if I have to get ready while LO is awake, I put her in the high hair in the bathroom with baby einstein on the iPad. It buys me enough time to do at least 75% of my routine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-581879 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:35:06 +0000 mediagirl 581879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee &amp; @littlek I've got nothing, then. Mine's a bit of a shadow so she doesn't get in that much trouble. Yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-581871 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:32:38 +0000 littlek 581871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: I hear you about watching them closesly. B rolled under our dresser, got his legs stuck and screamed bloody murder.</p> <p>@winniebee: I can't shower at night either. My hair looks greasy by afternoon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-581867 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:30:39 +0000 winniebee 581867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Since I'm blonde, showering at night doesn't work b/c I end up looking uber greasy by about noon.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work/page/2#post-581859 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:28:22 +0000 mediagirl 581859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: right. I forgot about your 5am alarm clock (that doesn't have a snooze button). Shower at night?<br /> @littlk: we have linoleum but we have rubs in there so, if she fell, she would probably fall on rugs. Haha and I hear you on pulling up on everything. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-581838 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:23:10 +0000 littlek 581838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Do you have tile in your bathroom? I'm scared of him hitting his head. He pulls up on anything and he isn't very graceful so he falls a lot. And by anything, I mean anything, my leg, the dog if he was fast enough.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-581834 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:21:56 +0000 winniebee 581834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Getting up even earlier than 5/5:30 is just not an option for me! I get so frigging little sleep as it is! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-581833 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:21:15 +0000 winniebee 581833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: I can buy myself a 5 minute shower if he's in the jumper....and then usually while I make my lunch (and pack up diaper bag) he's in his highchair distracted by puffs or banana chunks. And then he just chases me around the house while I get ready the rest of the way. I need to watch him more closely today, because he got into our drycleaning bag and somehow found a paperclip in it and was about to put it in his mouth when i caught him! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-581830 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:20:21 +0000 mediagirl 581830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: I've started getting up earlier than her to shower. Once I've showered, I get dressed and by then she's up. I bring her into the bedroom/bathroom and she usually sits there and watches for a while before she gets frustrated. Our bedroom/bathroom/closet are all baby proofed so she can wander around those pretty easily without getting into TOO much trouble. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-581815 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:13:46 +0000 littlek 581815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh and the jumperoo is not our friend right now.. He wants to be free to cause destruction. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-581809 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:12:30 +0000 littlek 581809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: What did you end up doing? B has been waking up around 6 a.m. and I'm struggling figuring out what to do with him while I shower and get ready. He's not very mobile now, but he rolls over to our bed and is trying to pull himself up which freaks me out that he will hurt himself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-539405 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:00:27 +0000 winniebee 539405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Lozza: The thought of 6 more months of 5:30 a.m. is terrifying!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-539388 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:55:18 +0000 sarac 539388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Babyproofed house, so I just put her on the floor to explore. I had some fun things at her level for her starting at that age, so she's always been free to explore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-539093 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:55:44 +0000 Lozza 539093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO was pretty happy watching me, especially if I was talking to him or singing to him, so he'd stay in his high chair pretty happily for a while.</p> <p>Also, he used to be awful about waking up early, and he still doesn't sleep in like some kids, but he did quit waking up before 6 AM every day around the 15 month mark, and now (22 months), he usually wakes up between 6:30 and 7 which makes SUCH a difference! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-539077 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:53:31 +0000 Lozza 539077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: Yeah, I really just tried to get as much as possible done the night before (like showering or picking out clothes or packing up my purse for the next day), and I'd have DH (if he was leaving first) carry stuff out to the car on his way out for me (like DH's lunch/bottles, anything I wanted to take to work, etc.). Anything to make it easier for me to get out of there in the morning. And I moved a toothbrush, hairbrush, makeup, contact stuff, etc. to the downstairs bathroom so I could do a lot of that while LO was eating in his high chair. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-539070 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:50:06 +0000 winniebee 539070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Lozza: That's where I'm at right now. 5:30 wakeup, can't wake up earlier, he doesn't want to really be in jumper and can't really be left alone either. Makeup goes on at work! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538939 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:26:15 +0000 Lozza 538939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped showering in the morning, honestly.<br /> We also had a period when DS was mobile and didn't want to be in the exersaucer or jumper, but couldn't really be left non-well-attended, and was waking up between 5 and 5:30 AM (so it's not like I was going to wake up before him). I just stopped ever trying to shower in the morning, and would often bring things like clothes and makeup downstairs with me so I could get ready while he was in the high chair eating his breakfast or drinking a bottle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538921 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:22:42 +0000 Freckles 538921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: too cute!! This is why i cannot leave LO in the high chair unsupervised, because there is a 99% chance she will try to climb out of it.</p> <p>I would probably bring her into the bathroom with me while i shower with tons of toys. I feel so bad that he is still waking up at 5:30! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538885 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:16:47 +0000 mediagirl 538885@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm probably either a. going to put her in her crib with toys or b. put her in the bathroom with me and shut the doors so she can't get out (after baby proofing, of course). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538883 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:16:27 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 538883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: OH, okay, that's where I was having trouble. I kept looking at it going, did she fall asleep on her toys? If so, why does she look so high up in the air (I'm looking at the knob next to her head...)</p> <p>It looks like something Henry would do. I found him on top of a box just last week trying to climb his bookshelf. Scared the bejesus out of me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538873 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:15:08 +0000 Sammyfab 538873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do the same as @BabyBoecksMom on the weekdays (I'm a SAHM but sometimes I don't shower when he's napping). It helps that we have glass shower doors. He mainly just sits there and looks at me instead of playing with his toys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538866 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:14:23 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 538866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NaturallyCathy: it helps if you look at the picture upside down. She's climbing out of her walker....head first!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538852 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:12:03 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 538852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: My brain is still trying to make sense of what exactly she's doing... But it's too cute!</p> <p>I tend to either put him in his PnP in the living room or I put him in his crib. He's usually happiest in his PnP since he gets to look out the front door at the cars going by. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538823 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:05:58 +0000 rachiecakes 538823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: DS would do the SAME thing!! I ended up buying a gate like @Mrsbells, at least he's happy to have some space to himself</p> <p>@winniebee: we have the circular gate as well and are in a 700sf townhouse. our house has too many iron staircases and balconies to babyproof with gates, etc., so our living room is this giant eyesore. oh well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538815 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:03:48 +0000 littlek 538815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Recently I have been putting LO on our bedroom floor surrounded by toys. He is trying to crawl, so right now he has fun lunging at our dogs when they walk by and talking to them. Once he crawls, I have no idea. But I have the same issue, DH is out of the house by 6 a.m. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538809 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:02:04 +0000 littlek 538809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: hahaha too funny! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538793 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:58:44 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 538793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: LOL!! Can't keep her down! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-do-you-put-your-mobile-baby-while-getting-ready-for-work#post-538790 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:58:25 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 538790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just lock her in the bathroom with us and give her lots of toys while we're getting ready. She usually just prefers to open the cabinets and pull everything out of them instead of playing with the toys, but whatever works! </p>