What do you do in the MOTN to keep awake and entertained while nursing or feeding baby?
Unfortunately our board is so slow, I'm looking for some more suggestions. What are your favorite blogs? TV shows? Internet sites? Or do you just stare at your DH/SO snoozing away and daydream about ways to kill them??
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No tv for me because I want zero stimulation for LO. I normally get on FB or browse online stores from my phone. Baically I try not to fall asleep sitting up.
Oh I definitely dream up ways to hurt DH - who snores no less! I swear snoring is like salt in the wound! lol
TTC #1 since August 2011 w/ unexplained IF
09/12-11/13: 3 TIs, 3 IUIs, ICSI/PGS IVF & 2 FETs
08/14: Our little miracle has FINALLY arrived - 3 years after we started trying!
Facebook, Instagram, reading blogs. Thinking about using headphones to watch netflix on the iPad but worry the light will be too distracting/stimulating.
I was doing the head-nod fall asleep thing the first couple weeks, so realized I needed something to engage my brain for those MOTN feedings. I've begun watching Friends in chronological order - it's light-hearted and keeps me just entertained enough.
TV, mobile Facebook, the bump, maybe editing a book, but we just moved the toddler's crib into that room DSO I don't know how much late night editing I'm going to get to do any more.
Ok, make fun of me if you want, but my LO loves to be sung to and I sing to him all the time...but in the MOTN I tend to make up songs. From this has come a song about going to Mia's that we now sing every time we're heading to grandma's, a song about getting a bottle that is now sung every time we're about to make him a bottle, and my favorite which is to the tune of Gimme Some More by Busta that we sing when the bottle we give him just wasn't big enough. You know you wanna know the lyrics to that one... ;-)
I usually do nothing or maybe play a game on my phone. S is an efficient nurser, so usually the feeding portion of MOTN lasts 5-7 min. Otherwise it's more hands--on like diaper change, getting the burp out...
OK my tablet just auto corrected burp to "burro", but I caught it that time!
Re: MOTN Entertainment
09/12-11/13: 3 TIs, 3 IUIs, ICSI/PGS IVF & 2 FETs
08/14: Our little miracle has FINALLY arrived - 3 years after we started trying!
I sometimes read on my kindle. I would watch some TV, but I don't want to stimulate the baby, like a pp said.
Mostly, I just sit there half asleep and pray the baby goes back to bed easily.
son#1 born 6/2010
son#2 born 4/2012
son#3 born 7/2014
Also, I just got on Pinterest.
So I stay awake by imagining stabbing all the people who have time for that stuff.
Edit cuz it's 3:30 am and typos abound...
DS Grayson (3yrs) (Emergency Csec)
DS Camden (1yr) (All natural Vbac)
DD Isabella due 8/2/2014
Also dreaming of hurting DH lol. He can sleep through any crying even with lo in our room
OK my tablet just auto corrected burp to "burro", but I caught it that time!