Thread: Monday QOTD

What household or work tasks have become difficult for you strategically speaking because your preggo belly is just in the way?

Trying to get clothes in & out of our front loading washer/dryer is a literal pain. If something falls on the floor, I seriously weigh the options of picking it up... sometimes it stays on the floor until I can get DD or DH to get it. Bending over just isn't always an option I have anymore.

I was going to post exactly what you said, Anita! Another thing that gets me is reaching things that are high up but near a wall or counter. I'm already short (5'2"), and with the tummy in the way, it's almost impossible to get that high up stuff!

Nothing is really too hard, I think I'm just so used to squatting down from work that it is second nature to squat and get something. Getting up from a squat is more difficult however, and energy levels keep me from doing a lot - I'd rather spend my energy on my daughter than cleaning.

Tying my daughter's shoes. I now have her sit on the basement stairs at the top and I sit a few stairs lower so I don't have to lean over. Everything else I can still pretty much do, but it just takes me a whole lot longer because I have to take so many breaks from getting tired out.

Cleaning the bathtub

Carrying the laundry basket around

Unloading the top-load washing machine

Pretty much anything that requires I carry something or lean over lol

Cleaning the bath tub is a pain! Everything else I can "get through" but I can't bend over anymore!

Giving the boys a bath - so uncomfortable to bend over to wash them.

Cleaning the bath tub. I can not bend over that well at all anymore.

Scrubbing the floors is out of the question these days. Mopping will just have to do.

Not really, I mean, everything is a bit more challenging, but I am trying to stay as active as possible!

last weekend I cleaned the garage, and this past saturday i did yard work.

the most challenging is for sure bath time, the kids dont understand that its painful to bend over and they squirm away during hair washing.