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FionaS 
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 9:33am |
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Totally random and silly question...
Do you shower when your kids arare awake(kids who are safe to be left semi-unsupervised for 5mins that is)? Elle's awake time has virtually doubled over night and I like my morning shower! ATM she is up for about 4 hours in the morning. Before this change she was up for 2 hours max so I had a shower and got ready to go out during her first nap. Now we often need to go out first thing so she doesn't get bored + due to developmental milestones etc I'm lucky if she naps for 20mins. She get's really mad with me if I take one but I think she should just get used to it. What do you do?
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 9:35am |
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Before I was working I showered either before B left for the or if I had no where to be in the morning I'd wait until she had a nap.
Can you keep her in the bathroom with her and give her some toys to play with? That was something else I would do with Maddie.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 9:36am |
I normally shower in the morning when Ella is awake- she sits on her bouncer in the bathroom playing with her toys. I imagine though once she starts moving around it might be a different story....
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 9:46am |
I have to shower when Sam is awake since our Ensuite backs onto her room. The shower is noisy and wakes her up!
I generally either put her on the floor with a toy or take her in with me 
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 9:49am |
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I always just took Charlotte in with me- still do most mornings actually! I get my realxing 20 minute showers in the weekends :)
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:00am |
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Either DP or I shower with Ella - she sits on the shower floor playing with toys. We've done this since she was 7 months old.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:04am |
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I either shower at his first nap, take him in with me or put him in his chair in the bathroom and let him play with some toys. Or if DH is on afternoons I shower whilst he looks after Spencer.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:18am |
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I let mine run riot while I have a shower in the mornings. The house is safe for them and I'm only in the shower for a few minutes max. I can't take them in with me coz they try to climb in the shower and get all wet.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:30am |
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I shower at 7.30ish every morning during the week, the BK's (big kids) look after him for me while I'm in there sometimes he'll still be asleep so I don't have any probs there at this stage.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:32am |
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I shower in the morning, and try and do this when she has her first nap of the day. So after two hours I put her in her cot, i race for the shower and whip through it and try and blow dry my hair too. She only sleeps for 1/2 an hour that first session so everything is done double time!
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:33am |
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I started off having Rhiannon in the bathroom with me, but now i close off all the rooms i dont want her in and let her run, between the bathroom and her bedroom.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 10:56am |
 Maya wrote:
I let mine run riot while I have a shower in the mornings. The house is safe for them and I'm only in the shower for a few minutes max. I can't take them in with me coz they try to climb in the shower and get all wet. |
That tends to be what happens now if I have to shower while Maddie is up and no one else is home! Then I clean up the trail of destruction later. 
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 11:01am |
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I shower when Rhyley has his morning sleep unless starting work earlier then either before older kids go to school or I take him in the shower with me or let him play in there while i have my shower..
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 11:11am |
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I shower while Charlotte rules the roost. The house is kid proof now anyway.
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 12:09pm |
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I shower in our ensuite, so I shut the bedroom door and Joshie plays around in the bedroom and bathroom. He's fine, and I'm never in there longer than a few minutes - long showers take place on the weekend!
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 12:20pm |
I would always shower during Ashleighs morning sleep but she is now only have one sleep at lunchtime so I normally leave her in the lounge with the door shut to the hallway and put a video on or leave her watching Blues Clues or something. She just potters around playing with her toys. Our house is a strange configuration and our bedroom and a 2nd lounge are upstairs, mezzanine style looking over the downstairs lounge so i just leave our ensuite door open and I can hear if anything untoward is going on down there. I would take her up with me but its not safe with the stairs and I don't like her playing around the railing of the mezzanine 
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 12:32pm |
i bring jordis upstairs with me, and will put tv on so she can watch it while i shower if she is up, otherwise i shower when she is still in bed. just depends on how lazy i am
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 1:34pm |
I shower before the rest of the house is up about 6.30, otherwise I find I never manage to get in and then I am stinky for the rest of the day 
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 1:38pm |
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Sometimes I get a shower brfore Rod goes to work, depends on if the terrors are up or not. Usually, I let the wiggles or disney playhouse babysit and Charlotte is sometimes back in bed, sometimes, exploring the house. Often, both kids are in the bathroom crying and whinging, and Mama needs herself a big whiskey to kickstart the day...
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Posted: 21 November 2007 at 2:14pm |
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Usually try to do it before Hannah gets up, otherwise before Daniel goes to work. If I wait too long and its just me and Han home she causes all sorts of bathroom havoc - flushing the loo makes my shower cold, pulling the shower curtain out.....
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