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Showering
Hi! I'm a working mom, but in lurking through some of your posts I thought you all might have some good advice! DS is 3 and I'm expecting DC#2 in October. Currently DH takes DS to daycare so I have an hour in the morning to shower and pick up the house before work. Well, DH is up for a new job that would mean I would have to get ready for work with two children and get them off to daycare. ugh. I have to admit that I've never showered while DS wasn't napping or being attended to by DH. What do you do with your little ones while you shower? Also, DS was very clingy to me until he was about 2, so there was no way I could be in the house without him being stuck to me. Thank you for the advice! On the rare occasion that I do have to get ready for work with DS, I end up going to work with my make up half melted off my face, and my hair a little crazy 
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Re: Showering
My DD isn't very destructive and knows when I tell her to stay in my room and watch her show I'm serious. So she watches tv on my bed or on the couch in my bedroom while I'm in the shower. I take a pretty quick shower and am a jeans and a tshirt SAHM so there's no blowdryer or make up involved. Just getting showered, I often get a visitor while I'm getting dressed. I plan to have my soon to be LO in a bouncy seat in the bathroom with me. Or if she's napping I'll lock her bedroom door so DD doesn't go visit her sister while I'm showering. If LO is napping I bring my monitor in the bathroom with me.
I've always had to deal with DD when I shower. When she outgrew the bouncy seat I had my exersaucer in the bathroom. Then I had her in a play yard in my bedroom and left the bathroom door open so I could hear her (or showered when she napped).
Once I have to get 2 kids out the door to get DD to pre-K in the fall I may switch to night time showers or get up earlier. MH travels M-F most weeks so I don't have him to help.
DD1, Kathleen 9/15/2007
DS is 3-- he plays or watches tv while I shower.
DD is 13 months- I put her in the PnP when I shower. When she was younger I would put her in the exersaucer or jumperoo while I showered.
This doesn't really answer your question- as I USUALLY shower at night when both kids are in bed- for me it just works better.
I feel like I can kinda unwind and wash the day off of me- and go to bed feeling refreshed and clean. But I have always enjoyed showering at night-
If I DO shower during the day- it is REALLY hard with #2 however I have masted the under 5 min shower. lol
i'm not much help i:
a. Shower during morning nap (around 10ish)
b. if i need to go out before that, i put DS in the pnp and have it right outside the bathroom door so i can hear/see him.
I used to plop DD in the crib with a few toys. Then she started eating the crib rails *sigh* Now I gate her in the hallway. We have a short section with no doors right near the bathroom, so I put a gate at either end, set her up with some toys and shower fast. I can keep an eye on her from the bathroom then as I finish my hair and make-up.
Right now I babysit an infant, as well, and I have both of them and need a shower before DD's nap I will gate DD in and put the LO in the bouncy seat in the bathroom with me so she's out of DD's reach.
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
If DH showers at night, I'll shower in the morning. If he plans to shower in the morning, I'll take my shower at night.
In your situation, I'd just plan on showering at night. It's going to be hectic getting two little kids ready and out the door in the morning and this would probably make your life a little easier.
When DD was tiny, she'd nap in the swing while I showered.
Now she sleeps until 9am so it's usually not a problem. But we have a corral outside our bathroom that I put her in if I need to. She gets upset for a few minutes, then realizes all the stuff she gets to play with is right in front of her.
I have 3 kids - 4, 3 and 19 months and I often shower in the morning when all 3 are up and my DH isn't around. I bring my 3 y.o. and 19 m.o. in my room, put on a cartoon and leave my bathroom door open. My 4 y.o. either comes in and watches TV too or is playing in her room or in the playroom, which is fine.
Most of the time, both of the younger ones come in the bathroom, open my drawers, go through stuff, etc. They are happy doing that. My 19 m.o. knows by now not to go near the toilet. So, I just yell at them from the shower if they're doing something they shouldn't be doing. When I'm done, I usually make them get out of the bathroom for a few minutes at least so I can get dressed.
If I had to go to work every day and shower with all three of them like this, I'd probably go crazy. If I were you, I'd bring the baby into the bathroom in a bouncer seat or something and set your 3 y.o. up in front of the tv or something. Honestly, my oldest stopped napping at 2.5 and I took a shower every day during my DD2's nap. She never got into anything she wasn't supposed to. I just always told her what I was doing and that I needed her to sit quietly so I could take a shower, I'd put a show on and that was that.
My children are 3 and 4.5 months old. I usually shower, dress, and get ready for the day after DD's morning feeding (if it's between 5-6:30 AM and she goes back to sleep afterwards. If it's earlier, I'll feed her and then snooze until 6 AM.) DS wakes up around 7:30 and I'm typically ready to go by then (as in had breakfast and starting to get DS' things ready for preschool.)
I usually have everything for DS' school day packed and in the car (except his lunch) the night before. It takes 15 minutes and saves a ton of time.
I will say that I couldn't do this routine until DD started STTN (which was at 10 weeks.) This summer and in the fall, both DD and DS will be at the same MDO/Preschool on the same days so that will definitely help our daily routines.