day off from work but not from house chores :o)

The best advise is clean when he he sleeping. It's harder now for me because I have two kids under 2 years old. So I clean when hubby comes home or is home to help and when the kids are in bed.

My baby girl does the exact same thing to me,she plays a lot. but she hate staying in the room by her self,are playing by her self. kids love attention,and playing with their toys.So what i try to is to place her in her sitting chair near by me is am doing house work.So that she can see me at all times.Most of the time i put her to sleep an then start my work.

When my children were very small, I would try to save the housework that I had to get done during the course of the day until I knew that the children were asleep. That could be that I was doing the cleaning while they were down for their naps during the day and I would do the other things after I had put them to sleep at the end of the day. Other than that, I really can't tell you anything else that you could do that would keep the baby occupied while you are trying to get your housework done.

I'm not a mom, but I hope I'm welcome to comment. I think you can manage that soon. My sister was like you when she gave birth, she said she was always tired. I asked her to eat more so she's able to have more energy to do more work. She eats healthy food, and she did not hesitate to ask help if she needed it. I know you can do that because women are born multitaskers. Good luck to you!

I think that what you should do is to tell your baby sitter to have the day off different from yours so you get to rest on your day off. You can never be fully energized when you come back to work if you do not have time to relax.

there is no off of being a mom, its a 24/7 job that requires you to be present always but a happy feeling that seeing your child happy.

Thanks for sharing yes i agree you have to do house chores on off days, you can ask your baby sitter to take on a different day, that is the only way left, we have maid servant to do house chores.

I am not a mom, but then, I have had this experience with my sis's kid. So, The first advice I would like to give you, which is exactly what we followed is, do all the household work by the time the baby awakes. Me and my sis would finish odd almost all the work in house by the time he used to get up and once he gets up, there is no way he was leaving my sis away from him. All he wanted when he was a kid was to be with his mom and he was not ready to adjust with any one of us other than her. I too was working already and my mom also was working, so it was really that hard for us to manage with the kid along with the household work. The other small small work was possible to do for my sister herself with the kid hanging on her shoulders with a toy in hand. We get those bags with which we can hang the bags with the kid sitting inside it, that is the bag that I am speaking about, I am sorry, I do not know what they call it as technically, so you need to find it. It used to be multitasking in a way. the kid was satisfied that he could see his mom's face all the time till he gets bored off ( even though he never gets bored off ), and the mom can care freely do some little little works around the house, without having the tensions like the kid is safe and not into anything troublesome and he is not missing his mom and many things. Other than these, we couldn't find anything else apt for our kid. I have seen some kids liking to see cartoons and forget their mom's for a while , but our kid din't want anything other than his mom. So it was really so difficult and we couldn't literally do anything also. Kid, once starts crying, stopping them is really a tedious job. Sometimes, the task is easy for moms, but the other times, kid's do not stop crying because they are afraid that their mom would leave them again if they stopped crying. They are that intelligent at that tender age. Whatever it is, having a kid is the best thing a women can have and there is no other happiness that is as equal to this for a women.