Stay at home moms! What do you do all day?

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NOT trying to be offensive. I'm going to be a stay at home mom once baby gets here. It's my first baby. I keep thinking that it's going to be boring (I'm used to working 50+ hours a week) and a lot of sitting around since infants don't do much.

Not sure if I'm going to have a rude awakening or not lol. So to help prepare myself can I ask (if you're a SAHM), what do you do all day/what's your daily schedule like?

Does the day pass by quickly or do you find yourself looking at the clock a lot?

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I am a stay at home mom of a little boy(: time defintely goes by quickly.. my husband works a 12 hr shift and before i know it, his home. My daily schedule consists of waking up feeding baby, diapers, shower for him and myself. Later when my husband leaves, I distract my son with toys, read to him, have him excercise or massage his legs with baby lotion. When he goes to sleep, I either sleep, study or clean. I usually Clean, orgnanize the house or spend time with my son. It depends all on you and if its something you want. I love being a housewife and stay at home mom... Ive worked and gone to school my whole life so I treasure these times with my son(:

Its also a great feeling knowing your child is safe and well taken care of. He grows every single day and learns something new, Im glad to be a part of that. Ive been home with him since we came back from the hosptial and next month his going to be six months

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I do have three kids but I get up, breakfast for all, gym for an hour. They go to the kids area there and the place I go they love it. Come home, lunch, play for about an hour. Then naps for those who do. In the afternoon I run my errands with them. With kids all errands take twice as long. Finally they play while I make dinner. I am also a part of a moms group that gets together every 2 weeks and our kids do play dates. I do agree that the baby stage initially is quiet. Being a new mom though you will be more overwhelmed then you think. Once you get it down though it's all about getting out and not going crazy. Btw I have 3 under 3 so it's not like I'm talking about older kids either with my schedule.

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It was a hard transition for me initially to go from working to staying at home but now, after 5 years, I love it. When the baby is little there is just a lot of feeding, changing and getting the baby to sleep. It's a big learning curve and honestly, I felt like I didn't do much all day and yet, I didn't have time to get anything done either. Once things settled down a bit, my days were spent feeding my baby, cleaning my house, grocery shopping, cooking, paying bills, doing laundry, playing with my baby, going for walks or meeting up with other moms sometimes etc. Now that my kids are 5 and 2.5, I keep quite busy and not only do I have a lot I need to get done during the day, but my kids and I have a lot of fun together too. Give yourself some grace and know it is a transition period, you'll get a rhythm and it will be great.

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Clean cook run errands laundry

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Sham to 7 &1.5 yo. I get up and take son to school, get husband up- all the while daughter snugged away in bed with me. Go back to sleep and get up get dressed go eat lunch. Come home clean play around with baby girl and then go get son from school run to bank to make deposits(husband and I own a feed store) take son to do his stuff depending on day. Come home cook eat get everyone ready for bed watch some tv. When baby girl was a newborn I stayed home more and ate lunch at home I took walks in the national military park and visit. My sil is a very good friend so she came over a bunch. But me and baby girl likes to sleep. I slept every time she did pretty much. You will be surprise the amount of cleaning and other stuff to do all day once you are there all day

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My two older children are in school but most days I cook, clean, sleep, watch tv and sleep more lol. Sometimes I'll go visit other friends/family.

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Waiting for the little one to arrive but I've been off work during pregnancy due to fun body stuff 😑

Anyway, I garden, do groceries, I do the cooking & laundry and take care of all decorating. My husband works from home so does the rest of the housework. To prepare for baby, we've been madly fixing up the house (replaced A/C, new appliances, electricial work, replacing bannister, etc) though I put my foot down at doing a full kitchen reno as I do not want to finish the rest of my pregnancy squatting over a hot plate, eating instant noodles 😡

Once baby arrives, I hope to be able to breastfeed and I know that takes up quite a bit of one's days. We're going to try for a second child right away, so if it all works out, we'll have 2 kids under the age of 2 = I'll probably be praying for more hours in a day by then!

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I just had my DS 7 weeks ago and am a stay at home mom! My days aren't necessarily busy but I'm busy either feeding, holding or playing with him. The day flys by! The first few weeks we did spend a lot of time napping and binge watching shows. But now that he is a little older and takes longer naps I'm able to get stuff around the house done, meal prep and stuff like that

This is our schedule! Every baby is different but you can get a general idea. He normally wakes up around 9am and I feed him. He stays awake for 45 minutes-1 hour then naps for 2-3 hours. Then he wakes up again to eat between 12 and 1pm and is usually up for a long period of time. Around 2 he usually naps again and then will wake up around 4 for another feeding (lots of eating and sleeping) in the afternoon he usually eats every 2 hours until we bathe him (every other night) and then do one last feeding around 9 and then put him to sleep. He will usually wake up around 1am to eat again and then sleep until 5am to eat again.
Not a lot of excitement! Just tons of naps and feedings!! When the weather is nice we go for walks around the neighborhood and we have run out to the supermarket or target I just make sure to plan my trips around his feedings

I recently decided to become a lularoe consultant. I'm on the wait list and it will be awhile before I start. I figured by the time I started i would be ready to start some kind of work again. So I'm really excited to start the journey and work from home!

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I'm a stay at home mom of a 2yr old and 1yr old. We wake up,(10am-ish) change diapers, get dressed than eat breakfast. They play while I do the dishes from breakfast and the night before and clean the kitchen and bathroom plus laundry. Than I cook lunch, feed them lunch and put them down for nap. (2ish). I clean the living room (which is where they typically play most of the day) than they wake up and snack, we play together until 5/6ish when I cook dinner than Daddy comes home at 8, play with daddy, baths, bed. 
All the while chasing them around and changing diapers, cleaning them up after meals and snacks because kids are food tornados and preventing them from sticking things in outlets (yes... Kids actually try to do that). Than I watch my shows and go to bed. I wake up every four hours or so with my 1yro for breastfeeding. Than we start all over!

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Oh my days go by very quickly! I feel like I just got up but It's already 3pm. The baby will take up most of your time with feeding him, changing, burping, putting him to sleep and when he's napping I try to get things done around the house before he wakes up! There's always something to do

Stay at home moms! What do you do all day?

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