How to Get Housework Done With a Baby and Toddler
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How does anyone clean or exercise housework with a toddler and baby?
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Please if you can give me some tips!!!
I have a 2.5 yr erstwhile DD and a 6 month one-time DD. DD1 goes to nursery twice a week and i endeavor and exercise as much add i can but half-dozen month old shrieks if i don't agree her for more than five minutes. If I exit two.5 to play for 5 minutes or whilst i clean up later on luncheon I'll turn my back for 1 second and she'll be pulling things out of the cupboard.
Do y'all take a door jumper or playmat with toys on to grab at for 6month old , that'due south how I manage and seems to go ok 
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I only have one dd (19m) but the answer is that I don't go much cleaning or housework done!
I do kitchen stuff very swiftly (not thoroughly) while she is eating in her loftier chair. Basically everything else is done when she's in bed, or when dh is home, or on my tiffin interruption if I'm working at home.
I've got a jumperoo but that sounds stop the whining or the toddler. Argh!
I don't practice any housework unless she is asleep or out for a walk with my OH.
Sometimes I think I care well-nigh it other times I'k non sure I do, half of the mess is mine as for some reason I can never put my clothes away, or the babies 
Does the baby slumber during the day? That's usually when you get things done. If not, and so just practice the bare minimum to survive and expect till they're older to have a clean and tidy house.
Can yous put the babe in a sling and do stuff? That'southward the only fashion I can get annihilation done!
I put a babe gate up and have her in living room or whatever room is not beingness worked on at the moment. If I leave her in living room I usually find something on tv or movie she will settle down for. I am not a huge idiot box person, simply I find it useful for when I'one thousand in need of some small moments during the day to go things done (cooking, cleaning) it seems to help them.
I ready a play pen, toddler sits in there happily with toys while I clean
You have to accept your unputdownable one first, and so your easy i. Information technology's all in the system!
Helpful?
Jumperoo / door bouncer for the babe and CBeebies for the toddler usually buys me about 30 minutes, and I whizz round like a crazy person doing as much as I possibly. Basically the only mode!
I generally become about 45 minutes a mean solar day of co-ordinated naps so I sometimes employ that, but to exist honest tend to similar to apply that to sit with a loving cup of tea and relish the silence.
Also, mine eat in the kitchen, so I use repast times to clean sides, do dishwasher etc, while they're decorated eating.
Having said that, my babies take only turned 1 and the toddler is 2.eight, and I've been surprised to find I've suddenly started having more fourth dimension to myself, non less. I thought the twins getting mobile would exist a nightmare, but they're much happier to exist put down now. Meanwhile, the toddler has all of a sudden realised she tin can brand them laugh so is happy to play with them instead of needing me constantly. Admittedly they trashed the playroom this morning, just I did get a whole load of laundry done while they were doing so! (Unheard of during the day a couple of months ago.)
i. Let standards slide for a few years.
2. TV to keep toddler quiet for one-half an hour or whatever.
3. Use nap time to your reward (i.eastward. rest too so you've got free energy for later).
4. Bouncy chair/door bouncer/jumperoo or whatever to occupy the baby for xx minutes while yous become one chore done.
I have a 10 calendar month former, a ii 1/ii year old and a v twelvemonth one-time. My house is rarely clean only the children are happy. In a few years I plan to accept both a clean house and happy children simply I might get a dog instead.
I have ds xviii months and dd 7 months
Hire a cleaner ( she comes 3x per calendar week, my firm has never been then clean)
Let them watch Peppa Sus scrofa/Thomas the tank, while I load dish washer/wipe kitchen downward
Practise what y'all can while they nap
Become dh to practise it at evenings and weekends
Me or dh have a tidy round once they are in bed, while the other one of us cooks dinner
I've had to lower my standards of cleanliness drastically since having DD2 every bit she won't be put downwards for longer than five minutes either and I have an equally demanding toddler (who doesn't nap or go to plant nursery) wanting me to play with her whenever baby isn't attached to me. Sometimes I can stone infant to sleep in her pram in the hallway, put toddler in front end of cbeebies or peppa pig and get a few essential bits done. For the large stuff I wait until the weekend and DH takes them out for an hour and I aimlessly make clean the business firm. Information technology's even so never as make clean as I desire it to be though but I just can't let it get to me.
Likewise have to remember philosophically most information technology I think. Similar when I'thou older I'm not going to be laying on my death bed thinking oh I wish I'd have cleaned more
I have a 2.9yo and a 10mo. Toddler goes to preschool one morning a week so I whizz circular while he's there and make certain infant has a decent nap during this time. Other than that I requite toddler a spray canteen of water and a cloth so he tin 'help' and occupy baby or stick her in sling on my back and go on with it. It takes a long time and my house is never clean all the fashion through but I've just accepted that.
I have a two.9yo and 9mo. My standards were already adequately low, then lowering them further wasn't really an choice.
DD1 has 2 mornings at Preschool and although I by and large utilise the time to play with DD2, if she goes down for a decent nap (rare) in that time I run around and practise what I can for one-half the fourth dimension and then MN the balance.
I tidy the kitchen/dining space/playroom (open plan-ish) or do laundry whilst they eat after I've blimp my nutrient down quickly.
Nosotros all become upstairs, I shut the stair gate and let them 'roam' whilst I put abroad clothes or other small upstairs jobs.
Once the DCs are in bed, we run around and chuck everything in drawers and baskets have a tidy up to keep on tiptop of the small person debris.
At weekends DH or I will picket the DCs whilst the other gets on with chores.
Only our house would still exist a shit tip if it wasn't for our cleaner. That'southward the all-time tip 
Get the baby napping in a cot, follow a routine
Go the toddler a mitt vac and take them vac effectually the edges. I did that with my son when he was ii.5 and he LOVED it. I likewise learned to role actually well holding my daughter in i arm and working with the other. Y'all can do it!
When my two were that historic period, my house was, to quote my 'D' mother, a icky mess (it actually wasn't that bad, a mess yes, merely merely slightly disgusting ).
Who cares? They're only little for a short time then they're off to school and yous can clean to your hearts content.
I always said, I'm non off piece of work to make clean, I'm off work to spend time with my babies.
Simple - I hardly did any :D my husband did nearly of it.
I don't.
My cleaner does information technology.
My youngest is 14 months now and I can practice a bit more than housework, fifty-fifty chuck some things in the slow cooker occasionally
I've only got one toddler and so easier for me. I've got kid locks on the cupboards. As pp said, cbeebies.
I am simply near to have DC2 but this really got to me concluding time I was on ML!
Information technology was mainly the stress hanging over me that things weren't as make clean as I wanted them. I institute it tough enough to keep myself clean, fed, clothes washed and bottles etc sterilised with a baby who wasn't happy unless existence held then she could run into what was going on.
This time I will be keeping the cleaner we got when I went back to piece of work. This is well worth the money to accept the force per unit area and stress off me and/or DH. Otherwise I think y'all can make clean $.25 and bobs here and there but it volition never experience completely clean and lodge restored!
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