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What is your least favorite parenting task to do solo?

  1. littlek

    GOLD / squash / 13576 posts

    Nail clipping. I leave that to DH.

  2. MsLipGloss

    GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts

    @littlek: Ha! DH leaves it to me.

  3. Sapphiresun

    nectarine / 2220 posts

    Bathtime for sure.

    She's so little and slippery, and can't hold her own head up, so it's difficult to get her out of the bath and into her towel with only two hands.

  4. MsLipGloss

    GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts

    I also really hate NoseFrida-ing solo!

  5. RubyCali

    apricot / 303 posts

    Definitely getting ready for bed, AKA taking baby out of bath and listening to her scream bloody murder since I took her rubber ducky away, and then having to wrangle her for a diaper and pajamas.. So glad to see I'm not the only one! Didn't realize this was a "thing" for other babies too!

  6. Mrs. Schoolbus

    blogger / apricot / 349 posts

    Diaper changes after a blow out! Especially if LO is wearing a onesie and trying to get that off her body without making an even bigger mess.

  7. HLK208

    pineapple / 12234 posts

    The entire night time routine! I get so tired. The whole cooking dinner, feeding, cleaning up, bath time - it's so much more enjoyable when it doesn't drain me of the entire 1% of energy I have left from the day spent with the LO's.

  8. 78h2o

    grapefruit / 4441 posts

    Nail clipping and snot sucking. Help with all the other things would be nice, but those are the two things that I really wish we could do together. Sometimes my MIL helps with the nail clipping and I use my leg over LO (along with my arms) when snot sucking, which helps a bit.

    I wish I had help with big medical stuff (ER, shots, etc), the morning routine, and bedtime, as those are the things I find stressful.

  9. T-Mom

    honeydew / 7488 posts

    Playing referee by myself between the kids is what I hate the most. Everything else is doable..

  10. sandy

    cantaloupe / 6687 posts

    @HLK208: I have to agree that the end of the day is so tough when you're solo parenting for a few days. The whole meal prep, feeding, cleaning up, bathtime, and bedtime can be so exhausting when you've been through the whole day solo...especially when it's several days in a row. And you have 2 kiddos! I'm excited but scared to have baby #2 bc my husband is traveling more for work and I almost can't wrap my head around how people survive solo parenting a toddler and newborn

  11. pinkcupcake

    cantaloupe / 6751 posts

    The evening is tough to handle alone. The time from 4p to bedtime is a blur

  12. Andrea

    GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts

    @HLK208: it is really draining! It takes me about an hour to recover after the kids are asleep.

  13. bushelandapeck

    pomelo / 5720 posts

    Bathtime, diaper and jammies for sure. LO hates getting dressed for bed and always throws a huge tantrum when we are trying to get him dressed. Ugh.

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