I'm pretty fit and healthy for 33 weeks. But I can't bend down/crouch long enough to do low level cleaning, DH is wary of my going up on stepladders for high level, I can't lift heavy objects/furniture to clean behind them/hoover.
DH helps constantly when he is not at work but the problem is some of these deep cleaning jobs can't be done in a couple of hours in the evening- leaving them half done and I try to do them but get exhausted almost instantly and the house looks terrible. Also he is painting the nursery -and is self employed in the middle of a contract with relatively long hours (often he works closer by). He says don't worry, he's got over a month to get it done and it will get done even if I can't do much because he will use weekends.
I just feel so useless: I know what needs to be done, I just can't actually physically do it in any kind of reasonable time. The house looks like a student house or a squat with furniture from the room being painted stacked up etc'.
Unwisely read a 'first time parent' book aimed at dads who stressed the importance of deep cleaning but well before due date as cleaning residues in the air could upset baby... and managed to get myself in a right tizz. I mean the book is for dads, it's probably got stuff in to encourage less 'hands on' men to do the cleaning in good time. But I feel like an unfit mum (in both senses of the word) already!
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How on earth do you clean for baby when you can hardly bend?
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squizita · 28/07/2014 18:23
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