SAHM check in

[chicorojo]

How many kids do you have? 3

What was your former occupation?
Pre-K Teacher

How do you entertain LO when they're awake? We sing, dance, nursery rhymes, and play with toys.

What do you do when they're asleep? Clean !

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
I do all the inside chores. He works 50 hrs a week and then comes home and takes care of all the birds. I also do not make him help at night.

GTKY aw your LO

[chicorojo]

Feb 25, 2015 10:44:06 GMT -5 bunattack said:

chicorojo Do you literally mean birds or is that a nickname for your LOs?

Literal birds. We raise chickens, geese, ducks, and turkeys. He built incubators he hatches them in so we sell babies and raised birds as well... we have over 80 so its pretty time consuming.

[chicorojo]

Both. Once the hens are done laying we butcher them it really sucks though.. but the point was to be able to eat the meat that we raised and knew what they were fed and how they were treated. We have thought about raising a beef cow and a pig... but I just can't.

[somanyjessicas]

Thanks for this post! Was just think yesterday that I might not be able to hack this SAHM thing, was feeling a little cooped up. Finally made a username for this site after the mass exodus from TB.
How many kids do you have? Just one

What was your former occupation? Worked a few jobs while dh was in grad school, clinical research, recruitment, starbucks.

How do you entertain LO when they're awake? Read, anything to make her smile, activity mat, tummy time, facetime with grandma in FL.

What do you do when they're asleep? Sleep myself, eat, bath, try to keep up the house and meals. She is having a growth/debelopmental spurt and is really clinging the past couple weeks so i havent gotten much done.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO? Its been regularly below 0 where we are so he does most of the shopping so lo can stay warm inside, I try to let him sleep uninturrupted weeknights but when he is home in the evening he is in charge of diapers. We share dinner prep but I do most of the cleaning.

GTKY aw your LO.
Apparently still trying to figure out how to post pics. Just imagine the cutest baby you have ever seen

[mdkc14]

How many kids do you have?
One. 3 months today!

What was your former occupation?
Marketing Rep

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
Tummy Time, Playmat, Bouncer, helping him stand and most recently, holding his hands as he attempts to walk

What do you do when they're asleep?
Nothing.. Oops.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
He works and I take care of the house. Sometimes he'll do dishes or laundry when he knows I'm tired.

GTKY aw your LO.
Last night hanging out on the couch:


Milk drunk after a long feeding:

[2jelplus1]

Feb 25, 2015 13:51:10 GMT -5 somanyjessicas said:

Thanks for this post!

GTKY aw your LO.
Apparently still trying to figure out how to post pics. Just imagine the cutest baby you have ever seen

Wha? Our babies are identical twins?

Am about to start my main check in but will take a while 1 handed!

[2jelplus1]

How many kids do you have?
Just one (no idea how moms have raised more than one kid at a time throughout history)

What was your former occupation? Corporate litigation.

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
We read, play with rattles, hangout on activity gym, walk through the neighborhood, attempt tummy time, sing (sometimes along with veggie tales songs), photo shoots and lately an unreal quantity of long bounces and dancing in my arms. We also chat a lot!

What do you do when they're asleep? Lol, she likes to sleep in the crook of my arm so I read my kindle, surf the web, post here, and occasionally sneak away to eat or pee.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO? I'm feeling guilty and hoping he never sees this thread! I handle most days from 9:30-6, but if she's screaming non-stop he'll come home and help calm her/us. At night he plays with her for an hour or so and we do her bedtime routine together. We are EBF and generally I feed her, she poops, he changes her and rocks her back to bed. If either of us is severely under slept the other tried to take her out of bedroom for a few hour shift.

GTKY aw your LO.
10 upload fails in a row!

[chicorojo]

Feb 25, 2015 14:09:15 GMT -5 mdkc14 said:

How many kids do you have?
One. 3 months today!

What was your former occupation?
Marketing Rep

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
Tummy Time, Playmat, Bouncer, helping him stand and most recently, holding his hands as he attempts to walk

What do you do when they're asleep?
Nothing.. Oops.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
He works and I take care of the house. Sometimes he'll do dishes or laundry when he knows I'm tired.

GTKY aw your LO.
Last night hanging out on the couch:


Milk drunk after a long feeding:

What a cutie ! He looks so tall ! but that might be because mine is short and fat

[nannygoat]

How many kids do you have?

Just 1.

What was your former occupation?

Sales.

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?

We have long conversations, I sing to him (not well I might add), and attempt tummy time. He also loves to study my shirts... Must be interesting. He isn't too intrigued by his toys yet, but I think we are getting there.

What do you do when they're asleep?

Pee, clean, and eat (a lot). Wish I was good at naps.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?

My SO works out of state for long periods of time, currently been gone for almost 7 weeks. So there is no separation of duties, but my mom helps out quite a bit. Mostly just watched LO so I can shower or go to the store once in a while. I see lots of diaper changes in his future!

GTKY aw your LO.

[mdkc14]

Feb 25, 2015 18:24:42 GMT -5 chicorojo said:

Feb 25, 2015 14:09:15 GMT -5 mdkc14 said:

How many kids do you have?
One. 3 months today!

What was your former occupation?
Marketing Rep

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
Tummy Time, Playmat, Bouncer, helping him stand and most recently, holding his hands as he attempts to walk

What do you do when they're asleep?
Nothing.. Oops.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
He works and I take care of the house. Sometimes he'll do dishes or laundry when he knows I'm tired.

GTKY aw your LO.
Last night hanging out on the couch:


Milk drunk after a long feeding:

What a cutie ! He looks so tall ! but that might be because mine is short and fat

He was 23 inches at our last appt a month ago but we have wic tomorrow so I'll know his height then. I feel like he's tall though because he is almost as tall as his cousin who turns a year in May. Crazy!

[samantha24]

How many kids do you have?
2 FTM of twins!

What was your former occupation?
Quality analyst

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
Play mat, tummy time, reading, talking to them.

What do you do when they're asleep?
Nap, clean, eat, shower. Most times nothing because they won't sleep without being held.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
Luckily DH is laid off for the winter so he has been here to help me, which I'm very grateful. We split most duties(cleaning/laundry). He cooks most of the meals while I tend to the boys. The boys are EBF so he does get out of MOTN feedings(we're down to one!). But he helps change/play/hold them all day.

GTKY aw your LO.

[mcm]

How many kids do you have?

-- Just one. 10 weeks on Sunday.

What was your former occupation?

-- Nanny. I was meant to be a mommy all my life... ;-)

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?

-- Play on his play mat, bouncer, talk to him, read, take a walk, and go to mommy groups.

What do you do when they're asleep?

-- Netflix. We usually snuggle, so I'm not very productive. Eek.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?

-- Ummm... I don't know. I don't have any "duties" other than carry for my little guy. I hate cleaning. I cook sometimes. Yep.

[kookooma]

Hi ladies, I did a quick intro on the In case you're out there page.

How many kids do you have?

3 A 15y/o DS, a 13y/o DSS, and a DS who will be 10 weeks on Monday.

What was your former occupation?

Registered Nurse. I actually just got a call from a specialists office. The supervisor knows my mom and heard I was a nurse that was possibly/maybe looking to return to the workforce. They want to interview me which is awesome but I don't even have a lead on daycare for LO. So I got that to think about..

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?

We sing songs, playmat, tummy time, dance, watch brothers sporting events.

What do you do when they're asleep?

Sleep! Run around like a crazed lady trying to clean the house and do laundry and Netflix of course! Just finished Breaking Bad. So awesome!

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?

Bwahahaha!! You mean he's supposed to help? Actually there are times he'll begin dinner. And then he'll play with baby and change a diaper. Otherwise its all on me. My DH has no idea about keeping a house clean. I'm pretty sure this house would be condemned without me.

Here's my little guy (if it loads!)

[iaminigomontoya]

Love this idea!

How many kids do you have? 2

What was your former occupation? Developed and oversaw behavioral health programs

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
His bouncer, singing, narrating what I'm doing, watching his brother play

What do you do when they're asleep?
When the big ones at preschool, I try to relax by watching tv or reading a book but I usually I end up doing light housework and getting lunch ready for ds1 and I.

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
Honestly DH does more than his fair share when he's home. Every night after dinner, he takes over with the kids and I go take a bath with a glass of wine or beer and a book. On the weekends we do laundry, vacuuming and other housework together. I'm a bit spoiled.

GTKY aw your LO.

[lisamarie84]

How many kids do you have?
1

What was your former occupation?
Optometric Tech

How do you entertain LO when they're awake?
Play time mat, attempt tummy time (she's not a fan), read, sing

What do you do when they're asleep?
Go to the bathroom, shower, eat, cook, laundry, watch tv

What are your separation of duties like with your SO?
I pretty much just take care of LO right now. If I get a chance to cook a meal or throw a load of laundry in, I do...but DH has pretty much taken over most of the household duties for now.

GTKY aw your LO.

[frenchy816]

I'm not really a sahm but close. I'm a wahm and care for lo during the day.

How many kids do you have? Just the 1

Occupation? I'm a french teacher, but I teach online so I can stay home.

How do you entertain lo? We play with toys, listen to music on YouTube, he has a bouncy chair in my office he loves, his playmats, we talk, read, do tummy time, we learn french, sing songs, anything so I can work. I also baby wear and he likes his mamaroo.

Asleep? Work! Lol. I try to do all the things I need 2 hands for. Depending on the day I try to clean up. He's a bad napper, most of the time he sleeps on me in his sling.

Duties? We're still working things out in this department. It's been hovering around 0 here so Dh has been doing the shopping. He watches lo in the evening so I can have a few hours of solid work time to make calls. We share dinner duties.