Hell, yeah.
I think it's probably exacerbated by the fact that both parents are in the forces, and so have quite a scheduley lifestyle anyway. My friend V, who dropped a sprog at about the same time, takes things more your way. She's no more tired or stressed.

Oh, the coda to the story is that they didn't put the old nappy in the bin. I found it later in my paper recycling box. They'd obviously just figured that any container that held stuff plainly for disposal would do the trick.

Your kid OK?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 15:40, 1 reply)

She's great, thanks.
We've just started giving her bits of food to feed herself. Hours of fun and far easier than spoon-feeding her purée would be, though less amusing when I eventually get round to picking fingers of carrots, pear and toast off the floor.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 15:59, closed)

Just leave her strapped in to the highchair
She can eat the bits of food off the tray right in front of her, and at that age they don't have much of a throwing arm so you've only got a 3-4ft radius to clean up around the chair.
My little one is only 11 months at the moment, but my wife runs a home daycare for the extra cash and to avoid paying the 1200$ a month for daycare if she goes back to work.
The home daycare was an eye opener on how very different some people raise their children. From the "don't let her nap during the day no matter how tired she is because otherwise I'll have to spend time with her when I get home from work as she won't go to sleep right away" (I'm paraphrasing of course) and "we're trying to potty train her at the moment, so we let her run around without undies or a diaper. if you make her wear them at the daycare it'll undo all our progress" parents to the "if she's tired she'll lay down and nap, if she's hungry she'll ask for food, but try to keep it breakfast-snack-lunch-snack and don't feed her right before we show up as we eat when we get home, and she's already potty trained so no worries" ones.
Don't really know where I'm going with any of this except to say I've got a wee-one (and a baby, fnarr) as well! Yay.
(Turtlenuts, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 18:54, closed)

Buy a £3 shower curtain from poundstretcher etc, and plonk the high chair on that.... solves all those food throwing problems.
(Shadayim ..............., Fri 7 Jan 2011, 10:25, closed)