This is my current conundrum: LO is now 15 mos. She is an early riser and DH used to be home long enough so i could shower quickly. He now leaves the house at 530 so it is usually up to me and LO.
If you are in the same boat, what do you do?
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I am not a solo mama on work days, but I still shower at night to avoid the rush in the morning. But, I know some people hate showering at night!
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I'm not WOHM but I shower every am - LO is still small, but I put her in her crib with toys.
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I shower at night too but when I need to get ready in the morning and LO is awake I just put some toys in her crib to keep her occupied. If I needed to shower I would do that as well.
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I take showers at night when DS is down and get ready before he gets up. It was sooooooo hard at first but routine was key for us!
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I shower at night. And if I miss my shower at night (sometimes I fall asleep when I put LO down) then I have to birdbath it in the morning, ha.
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I shower in the morning but I try and get up before LO does. If not, I put him in the bouncer while I shower. If he won't go in the bouncer, I grab a bunch of toys and put him next to me so he can play while I get ready.
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I bring him into the shower with me. We have been doing this since he was very young. He sits and plays with shower toys. Sometimes I wash him too.
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He goes in the shower with me, he's happy to splash around and play. We've been doing this since he was a couple of months old.
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@brownie: Yes! Until recently, I did this too. (Not a WOHM, but I shower every a.m. once DH is out.)
We have a bathtub for LO that fits inside our tub. (Hoppbop Bato, I think. It looks like a real tub, just smaller and plastic.) I just filled it up and put LO in with some toys and went about my shower. At 2, LO is mostly able to do his own thing just outside the bathroom while I get a quick shower.
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@honeybear: we have a Rubbermaid thing we fill up for him and he loves it in there.
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I put DD and DS in the jacuzzi tub which is right in front of my glass shower so I can see them. They have a bunch of toys in there.
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I wake up 30 minutes before I get her up so I can shower. Sometimes I do shower at night, but I prefer to wash my hair in the morning, so I just wait.lol
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@MamaCate: At night...
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Dan leaves for work at 4:30, so I'm still in bed! I usually shower during Sadie's first nap or I stick her in the crib with toys and hurry.
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I put her in the bumbo in the shower with me, and sing to her while I shower. After I'm done I give her a rinse down too. She really likes it.
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I'm not a WOHM but I'm alone w/LO when I shower. When she was younger, I would put her in her bouncer and put her right in front of the shower so we could see each other (we have a glass door). Now that she's older, I close the bathroom door and let her sit on the floor with her toys. We have a huge bathroom and there's a door separating the tub area from the toilet, and it's completely baby proofed so I feel safe letting her play while I shower.
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I either shower before she wakes up, or take her into thr bathroom woth me and let her play with toys or she will sit there and drink her bottle.
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I have this same question. I go back to work in a week and am dreading figuring out our morning routine (dh leaves at 4am. Since J is only 2 months playing with toys isn't much of an option and he won't stay happy in his bouncer for too long.
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I wish we had a tub that was big enough that I could fit baby in while I shower! Yet another thing to add to "things to look for" when checking out new apartments next year.
If I shower in the morning, I either do it before he's awake. Or feed him and put him back down to nap (he usually wakes up at 5, then will go back to sleep for 30 mins - an hour) or I put him in a bouncer seat and put him in the bathroom floor.
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I get up earlier than LO but luckily she doesn't wake too early so I don't have to get up before 6am. she will also stay longer in the crib now just hanging out when she wakes up, and I will leave her in there unless she is really crying.
I definitely have just dry shampooed many mornings if she's up. she likes to sit at my vanity and get ready with me.
her attention span would never let me shower and dry hair and do makeup so I just let the hair part go if needed and rock a ponytail.
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I get up before her and get ready. If she wakes up early, I'll bring her into the bathroom and give her a snack, breakfast or a book to keep her occupied until I can finish.
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Since I started this, I wanted to update in what had worked for us: we tried a variety if things including bringing LO on the shower with me, leaving her in the room awake after nursing.
What is working now is that once I hear her on the monitor, I just jump in the shower. She just hangs out until I go get her and it seems to work. I don't know what I would have done if she were younger...I really didn't want to get up before 6 am unless i had to.
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I WAH, but until recently, DH was gone for work by the time I was ready to shower. I just always brought DS into the bathroom with some toys and he would play until I was done. When he was around 2, I just started leaving the bathroom door open and he would be unsupervised while I showered. It worked and still works for us. He doesn't ever get into things he's not supposed to.
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I JUST realized this said "WOHM" - so ignore my response. Clearly I need more sleep. Mommy brain on full blast.
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I don't WOH, but I am solo from 6am onwards, so on mornings I have to be out the door quickly, I jump in the shower as soon as I hear LO stirring. he takes 15 min or so to fully wake up and start fussing to get out of the cot, so if I'm quick I can make it
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i solo parent when my husband travels. i take a shower at night too, after she goes to bed. it saves me time in the morning. but, i know that some moms put their LO in a pack n play filled with toys, and put it right outside the bathroom door so they can see them.
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Showering is the bane of my existence now I have a baby! It's often not the showering that's a problem - she will entertain herself in her bouncy chair, next to the shower, for the five minutes it takes me to get washed. The problem is afterwards: I need to blow dry and straighten my hair immediately, otherwise it looks dreadful. If my hair is allowed to dry naturally, even just a little, it turns into a fluffy mess that cannot be tamed. You can guarantee that E will start wailing before I am finished!!
@Arden: This is a great idea! I might try this!! Question though - what happens when you both get out? Surely you're both sopping wet? E loves the bath but has a meltdown when she comes out - she is cold and wet and miserable - and only calms down once she is fully dried and dressed..... but by then I bet my hair will have started drying? And what if I drip all over her while I'm trying to dry her - we will be trapped in an endless cycle of sogginess! Agh! The logistics are giving me palpitations (sorry, it's my stress-head tendencies!!).
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I usually shower at night but when I have to in the morning, I get up early. Extra early, 5-515. I also can turn her soother on and she will play in her crib while I shower ultra fast. Sometimes she cries, that's life.
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I WOHM now and I either leave LO in her crib to take my shower quick before I get her, or, I have a PNP in the bathroom and she plays in there.
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I either get up early or bring the girls in the shower with me.
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My son is usually happy to play in his crib while I take a quick shower. He's a late sleeper, so it's typically not a problem. I'll get up and shower for work at 7am, and he wakes up around 7:30am most days. I'm a lucky Mama.
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I either shower at night and fully blow dry my hair, or I get up at 4 a.m. and *hopefully* will be far enough along in the getting ready department by the time she wakes up. Also, I try to do as much as possible at night after she goes down, so that all I have to do once I am ready is to get her dressed and out the door for daycare. This includes everything from laying out my clothes, laying out her clothes (down to her socks), packing her daycare bag, and loading the car with all the bags that I can load up early (daycare bag and my work bag with my laptop/files). Then, all I have to do is load up my handbag and my LO, and we are out the door.
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@Cherrybee: This is me and my hair exactly!
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Usually my husband takes LO while I shower, but when he doesn't (and usually on the weekends it works out this way too), I just bring her into the bathroom with me. In the bottom drawer of the vanity she has a ton of toys and she just entertains herself while I shower. Sometimes "entertaining" means pulling open the shower curtain to see what I'm doing lol, and also dropping some of her toys into the shower with me.
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I shower at night, there's no way I can do what I need to do in the morning these days. I fully blow out my hair and either flat iron or scrunch in some styling creme (depending if I go straight or curly).
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@MsLipGloss: 4 a.m.? Ouch
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@littlek: Yeah. *sigh* Sometimes she still wakes super early (around 4:30-4:45 or so. So when I'm by myself, I try to make sure that I have enough time to grab a shower before she is awake. Everything else I get done after that--before she actually wakes up--is just cake! As later wakeup times become more consistent (this morning she didn't wake up until 5:35!), I will be able to bump that a bit. But if I need a shower in the morning, and I'm solo, I have to build in that time buffer. : /
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L is 10 months and if im solo in the am I put him in the exersaucer. If he cries, he cries. It's not like I take a shower that's any longer than 7-10 min, max.
her attention span would never let me shower and dry hair and do makeup so I just let the hair part go if needed and rock a ponytail.
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