Do you leave LO unsupervised anywhere other than their crib?
I told SIL I let DS watch TV alone while I shower and she just about flipped out.
Now before I get flamed, he is in a baby proof room, no access to anywhere else besides that room and my bedroom with the master bathroom where I am at, which is also baby proofed.
I try to shower and get ready when he naps, but sometimes he decides he doesn?t need his nap, so I will put the TV on, give him a few toys, leave the bathroom door open (we have glass shower doors) and take a quick 5-10 minute shower. DS will usually stay in my room and keep an eye on me while he plays with his toys in my room, but as I am getting ready (20 minutes max if I put on make-up and do my hair) he usually leaves to watch TV.
(He only watches about 30 minutes total a day?otherwise I would never be able to shower or change his diapers. He has to be distracted during diaper changes otherwise there is a lot of screaming and flinging himself around, unfastened dirty diaper included)
Anyway, he goes back and forth every few minutes to make sure I am still there, and I go and check on him every few minutes. The rooms are literally connected, so I am never more than a few feet away.
So, tell the truth?does this make me a bad parent? Do you ever leave LO alone?
Re: Leaving LO Unsupervised?
If I had a room that was totally child proof adjacent to my shower I would absolutely do this, and in fact did this with DDs. With the addition of DS, our house is too small and there is "stuff" in places where before there was not (like the crib
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I wouldn't be able to see him.
If I could see him from the shower and everything was baby proofed that'
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