How do you get your house ready for a new baby that you're about to bring home?
That's a great question and we're going to talk about it today.
Hi there, I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
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Onto today's show, which is from a brand new mom, she's got a new baby on the way and she
wants to know, "How do I get my house ready and how do I clean my house for the new baby?"
All right.
That's a great question and what it comes down to is this.
You are doing all the right things.
For you to be asking this question, it shows that you're a caring mom and that you're thinking
about your kids already.
But I want you to think about you because if you don't take care of you first, you cannot
take care of the baby and your husband and the rest of the family.
All right.
I want you to take care of you first.
Now, I appreciate the fact that you want to take care of the baby but everything is about
to change because when the baby comes home, all of your free time is going to be consumed
and you're not going to have time to clean.
In preparation for the baby and if you're very pregnant, about to have the baby,
you probably don't feel like cleaning right now anyway.
This might be a good time to reach out to a professional house cleaner and just hire
somebody for a couple of months to come in and ease the burden.
But if you're going to do it yourself, a couple of things I would recommend, underneath every
sink in your house, keep a roll of paper towels or some microfiber cloths, keep an all-purpose
cleaner, so that you can spritz down the vanities and the mirrors and the basin and stuff like
that after you use them.
Before you put the baby in the sink to wash the baby, as he's small or she's small, you
want to make sure that your sink and everything is all cleaned out.
All right.
Another thing that I recommend is that you have some kind of program, maybe like on a
Saturday, for example, when you clean all of the toilets and you clean behind the toilets
and the floor around the toilets and the showers and you wash the bath mats and things like that.
You want to keep your house as sanitary as possible.
I would recommend that you hire a professional carpet cleaner to come in and clean all of the floors.
You may not know this yet but you're about to spend a whole bunch of time on the floor,
on blankets, rolling around on the floor.
As the baby grows up, he will be spending a lot of time on the floor.
If you don't already, this is a great time for you to make a no shoes in the house policy
because you don't want to be tracking stuff in from outside, and then, tracking it onto
your carpets and then the baby rolling around on the carpet into that junk or gunk that
you brought in from outside.
Just no shoes in the house, if you don't already.
All right.
Another thing that I would recommend is that you get in the habit of when you get out of
the bath and the showers every day, that you just sanitize them as you go because you're
not going to have time to come in and clean after there's a lot of buildup.
Just clean it before the baby comes and then maintain on every shower.
You know, when you soak pans in the kitchen and it kind of loosens everything up?
When you're in the shower, it does the same thing.
There's hot steam all around in the shower and you soak the whole bottom of the floor
pan just by taking your shower.
Everything is already soaked for you and so with a scrub brush and I'm not kidding, in
your shower, grab a scrub brush, some dish washing soap, some stuff like that, that's
going to be easy to just hurry and scrub everything up before it gets really bad or nasty.
Then, if you have glass shower doors, squeegee those down on the way out.
It's going to become a daily routine.
There are going to be pieces of every day, where you're going to be picking up and tidying
up and cleaning around.
Now, sleep is an incredible, important thing for you because over the next few months,
you're not going to get a lot of sleep because new babies tend to cry a lot and they're up
all night and all kinds of things.
In order for you to maintain your household, you, as the mom or as the parent, need to sleep.
One of the things that I recommend and this has nothing to do with cleaning is to go with
a bean bag effect.
The bean bag effect comes from my personal upbringing.
I'm 1 of 19 kids and my first job outside of my home was a professional nanny.
I've got a few kid tricks up my sleeve but I find, as an adult, if I sleep during the night
I'm better to help out with the kids and the cleaning during the day.
All right, here's the bean bag trick.
You grab a tube sock and hopefully, it's somebody who has a big foot and you fill it full of
lentil beans and then, you put a little rubber band on the end of it and you have this little
soft bean bag that's kind of mushy that you can mix and flatten out and you want to put
it right on the baby's belly as they go to bed at night.
If they're lying on their back, you put it on their belly, so that it tricks their brain
into thinking that their belly is full.
After you've fed them for the night.
Then, you want to put a little bean bag on their belly because after they pee from whatever
you just fed them, their belly is empty again and then, they cry again in a few hours.
But with a bean bag, what happens is their body heat, heats up the beans.
This little bean bag becomes like a little warming pad on their belly.
Then, they are sleeping there and it feels like their belly is full because it's kind of heavy.
As it lays on their belly, then they sleep all through the night because they think their
belly is full.
No kid has died from starvation for not eating during the night.
You just trick your kid into sleeping all through the night, which allows you, as the
parent, to sleep all through the night.
Now, here's a secret.
If you know anyone who has a sewing machine, you can actually make an advanced version
of the bean bag by sewing it together because the kid will get to an age where they take
the rubber band off the end of it.
But if you have the bean bag and this is one for a little tiny child, you just put it on
their belly and again, it heats up and it makes them comfortable during the night and
they will sleep through the night.
The bean bag thing also works for teenage girls that have cramps.
You just make a bigger bean bag and you use more beans.
But again, you just put it on your belly, it creates that calming effect.
It makes you feel full and it relieves the stuff that your belly feels when you're hungry
or you're having cramps or you're uncomfortable.
A bean bag, it's called a bean bag effect and it's a great way ... It's all natural,
it doesn't cost any drugs, doesn't cost any money, it's not a colicky baby or anything,
it's just a little warming effect like a heating pad, that helps them sleep through the night.
Like I said, it helps teenage girls too, which also allows you, as an adult, to keep your sleep.
Okay.
If the kid is sleeping through the night, the kid will be refreshed in the morning,
you will be refreshed in the morning and you will be able to maintain your daily chores.
But there will come a time in the early stages, where, as a new mom, you may need some extra
outside help and there's no shame in getting an extra outside help, whether it's a house
cleaner or if it's a babysitter, so that you can just take a nap, so that you can clean
your own house.
There are different ways around doing it but my suggestion would be stay right on top of it.
Do the daily stuff every single day.
When you're done with your clothes, hang up your clothes, because I promise, you're not
going to feel like coming back later and picking them up and putting them away.
When you do laundry, as soon as it comes out of the wash, fold it and put it away.
Nothing is ever going to be easier than right now.
Get in the mentality of thinking that right now because you will get carried away doing
other things.
You're in the middle of folding laundry and the baby will start crying and you'll drop
what you're doing to go help the baby.
In the process, there will be a lot of things that get left undone.
Do as much as you can right now.
If you eat spaghetti tonight, it's never going to be easier to clean the pots and the pans
and the dishes than right now.
The stuff hasn't stuck on the sides yet and you're not spending all of your time soaking
stuff and scrubbing it out and doing extra work.
Do it as you go.
When you get up in the morning, make the bed, it's never going to be easier than right now.
The secret to having a new baby in the house is just to be aware, number one, that your
life is about to change and it will change so drastically that you won't even recognize
yourself in a couple of months.
The next thing that you have to realize is keep right on top of everything because if
you say, "Well, I'll feel better in a week, I'll feel better in a couple of weeks," and
you let it slide, months turn into years because those kids are going to be with you for the
next 18 to 20 years and if they're from this era, they're going to be with you for the
next 40 years.
No, I'm kidding.
Okay, so stay on top of it.
Just get in the habit of doing things right now as you go because it will never be easier
than right now.
Good luck with the kid.
I'm super excited for you.
Use these tips.
I hope they help you a little bit.
Get some sleep.
Take care of yourself, so you can take care of your family and we'll talk to you again soon.
Until we do,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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