Help! Parenting solo this weekend

proudparent2b · June 2016

DH has to go out of town for the weekend, so I'll be taking care of LO (5 weeks old) and a very energetic pup. I feel like I'm barely making it through WITH DH's help in the evenings.

Weekends are typically when I get a little more me time, and tons of assistance and time w/ DH. Freaking out trying to successfully make it on my own.

Anyone have any tips?

lionstigersbears · June 2016

Know that you will be fine!! Getting through this will raise the bar for what you know you can handle. Try to get out of the house every day, that really helps me. Prep some stuff in advance if you have time--set out clothes, stock diapers and wipes in the places you need them, etc. Set up a visitor so you can have an adult conversation!

cortney626 · June 2016

You can do it! Ditto getting out of the house and having visitors or making plans with friends. That has helped keep my sanity. Going for walks and just getting out of the house helps.

Bellodomani · June 2016

Ditto- make social plans, even if you don't feel like it. Take walks. Get some easy frozen food at Trader Joe's or whatever. I also always make sure to go a little easier on myself/ my standards when my husband is working out of town. He's gone about 2-3 weeks every other month. I indulge myself a little with renting movies or having some ice cream after baby goes to bed, lower my standards for how clean the house has to be/ how healthy my meals have to be/ how put together I look. And my husband (bless his heart) knows I can get a little anxious or too inside my own head when he leaves, so he usually texts a few of my girlfriends and siblings and tells them to make me socialize while he's gone. I always roll my eyes about this because he tries to do it like secretly so I just think my friends all want to hang out with me all the time suddenly but I totally know what he's doing, and it is sweet. If he's gone for more than a week or so, I also try to set up one time for a friend or babysitter to come over for a few hours and I usually just go walk to a coffee and read by myself or do a yoga class or something. Just something so I take some time alone.

proudparent2b · June 2016

Thanks for the votes of confidence!

lionstigersbears · June 2016

proudparent2b said:

Thanks for the votes of confidence!

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