time for a hobby when L/O arrives?

[jussy]

Just wondering if you could shed some light as I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that things will be so different!
D/H thinks that I won't have time for any hobby like activities as I am off on mat leave. I have seen a one day course that I would like to go on to become a nail technician. I will have to buy the kit for £150 prior to the course. AS this is quite excessive just before I pop I wondered if you think its possible to have time to do this for friends etc once baby arrives?

Thanks

 

[charlie84]

Maybe not in the first few weeks as you may be run ragged with baby but i dont see why you cant do this once you know how your baby is and you can work it round baby.
If your friends/clients come to you then its even easier

 

[badgergirl]

I think it depends how motivated you are, how well you organise yourself and your time, and on your baby's temperament. I had plans to do various things at the start of maternity leave, but Sprog's never been big on sleep, is very clingy, and had appalling colic. I could barely convince myself to put on a DVD at the best of times.

However, I am the biggest procrastinator, and offered any opportunity to *not* do something, I won't. You know yourself best!

 

[Sherlock]

I think its possible, but it would very much depend on how you cope with a small baby, if you breastfeed or formula feed and how your baby is. You really won't know until baby is here and you've had a few weeks of motherhood. I remember it taking about 3 month before I felt like I was even close to coping with day to day stuff and baby, let alone anything else.

I'd not want to try to do anything in the first 6 weeks or so thats for sure. Just recovering from labour and adjusting to motherhood is in itself a full time job. Also baby will pretty much take up all your time and you may not want to be bothered too much with people anyways.

I'd also consider that you'd need to be prepared to be pretty flexible and informal perhaps with it. But if its for friends chances are they won't mind anyways.

Things like growth spurts, teething, colic, a baby who thinks sleep is overrated.... you get the idea. Any and all can make things hectic and not really give you time to do things. Or leave you too tired to want to do anything else.

But once you and baby have settled, LO has found their routine and gotten a bit older then it'd be much easier.

 

[nori]

From my personal experience.. absolutely no chance! I feel i am a pretty well organised person and i do beleive i am coping well but there are days where i realise i havent even had a wee come 5pm! Ollie is pretty grizzly at the moment but will "grow out of it" so everyone keeps telling me. Im finding it bloody hard work and im formula feeding every 3hours so if i was breastfeeding it would be even harder im sure!

I would wait until you are settled and then do the course.

Claire x

 

[Squiglet]

I don't have time to pee let alone do a hobby and lil miss is nearly a year old

 

[pilkers]

I can't remember that last time I had 5 minutes free time to do anything!!!

I'm not bad at organising at all but I've found it hard work juggling everything. Looking back I think things were probably easier when she was a newbie compared to now. But back then everything was so new and different that I was busy constantly but in different ways.

If you went for it now and spent the money and then found you couldn't fit it all in it would be an expensive lesson to learn! Unless you can afford to lose £150 of course!! Personally I'd wait a little while until you get into a routine and then think about it again.