Whenever I put a nursing mother on the floor repair task, she refuses. However, the other day my lady voluntarily started helping her hubby repair the floor, even though she had refused when I put her there initially. I guess he asked her more sweetly than I did.

It's happened to me. I just let her do it, though she's not supposed to. If she can help fix the house, I'm ok with it!

This has happed to me too! I leave her there, so the husband can work. @The Chief- Can you get me some pics from Isola?

One thing you don't want to do is offer the mother a refreshing dip in the pool...I guess she isn't too keen on teaching the baby to swim.

She immediately jumps out of the pool and begins "running away" as if you just punished her.

I haven't noted whether this affects her happiness or not, but I know now that it's one of those things you don't want to do to a mother with a baby!

I think that if she has been working on the floor before she has the baby, she will go to it on her own, like she does with tasks such as laundry, but if you drop her on it, she says no.

I think the reason nursing moms don't (normally) do certain tasks like floor/wall repair is that, because they can't put the baby down while working on the task, they don't want the baby exposed to the chemicals in the solutions they use.

As for swimming, I think it is hilarious to watch how desperate they are to get out of the pool. I sometimes put nursing moms in the pool just to watch them scramble to get out. On the other hand, they take the baby into the shower with them. Just my thoughts.

In the shower, the baby's head isn't under the water

Kikiann11, I don't really have pics from Isola. That's in there to be funny. I think we're all touching bases here: The mother, with (a) child(ren), might randomly work, even though she's not supposed to. Two things can be done: You can let her work, or pick her up, and she will do something else. Mothers that are nursing don't like to get in the water.