Eee-gad. I imagine vaccuming the whole house with an 18 lb kid on your back is something like vaccuming the whole house with a 24 lb kid on your back, something I've spent a fair amount of time doing. Boy, do I feel for you!
It's times like this where I wish I lived much closer to you. My best friend and I get together once a week: I hold the baby and interact with him, while she cleans, and we chat. It works mainly because aside from her, I'm the person who spends the most time with him and he thinks of me as a parent, so we don't have the "I WANT MAMA NOOOOW!" issues.
I do want to put this out there; If you need to get something done, and need to put her down and let her cry for 20 minutes to accomplish this, no one is going to say "wow, Jude is a horrible mother!". both you and the punk will recover from the trauma, I promise, and everyone in the entire world who has ever spent lots of time with a baby has done it from time to time.
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It's times like this where I wish I lived much closer to you. My best friend and I get together once a week: I hold the baby and interact with him, while she cleans, and we chat. It works mainly because aside from her, I'm the person who spends the most time with him and he thinks of me as a parent, so we don't have the "I WANT MAMA NOOOOW!" issues.
I do want to put this out there; If you need to get something done, and need to put her down and let her cry for 20 minutes to accomplish this, no one is going to say "wow, Jude is a horrible mother!". both you and the punk will recover from the trauma, I promise, and everyone in the entire world who has ever spent lots of time with a baby has done it from time to time.