How did you reconnect with your mate after a baby?
By Rileys_Mom07
@Rileys_Mom07 (81)
United States
June 9, 2008 9:26am CST
My daughter is 8 months old and it seems like we never get enough time to be together since she has been born. How did you reconnect with your mate after a baby? What are the things that worked the best for you? I would love to try some new things and get ideas here. I want to learn how to make the most of our time together.
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@spectrum42 (393)
• United States
9 Jun 08
We're having the same questions around here. My plan right now is to have a "date night" after the little one is sleeping. We'll probably need to try sneaking in a nap during the day in order to stay up late. Once she's asleep, I'll pop in a DVD and warm up the take-out Chinese food and we'll have a movie and dinner with just the two of us.
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@Rileys_Mom07 (81)
• United States
10 Jun 08
That's sweet but don't you think you are missing the point of reconnecting? I think that having conversation one on one might be more helpful than a dvd. Unless you guys just are really into movies...
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@spectrum42 (393)
• United States
10 Jun 08
It sounds to me like we have different needs. I guess for you, you'd skip the DVD and do the take out part with some candles or something? I have lots of time talking to my husband when we're doing things with our daughter in the evening. (She's the only child, and doesn't yet understand us, so we can talk about pretty much anything that we'd talk about one on one.) What we don't have is time to eat a full meal together or cuddle on the couch without someone climbing on us. So our reconnection time is more relaxing together instead of talking which we've already done. We do talk here and there while watching a movie or eating though, so it's not like it's total silence either.
