SAHM's schedule/routine What's your daily schedule/routine with the new baby? Any quick tips on how…

I'm following because my lo doesn't let me do anything.

I get nothing done. That's my routine.

I'm home alone for a week. It's been 2 days and I wanna pull my hair out. I think he's going through a growth spurt right now. ?

I work overnights. I get home at 6:15. Baby wakes up almost as soon as I get home. She gets a bottle and stays up for a little bit. Once she is back napping, I sleep for a couple hours until my 3 year old gets up. Baby is usually up by then too. It's easy to get stuff done when she is awake. She will sit by my 3 year old while he plays or sometimes I put her in a carrier. During the day we don't have much of a set schedule because it's summer and we are out a lot. Once the evening comes, then we are on a schedule. Dinner around 5. Baby can nap whenever during the day but once 6pm comes, I make her stay up until bedtime. Baths at 7:30. Baby is in bed around 8:15. 3 year old is in bed at 9. Then if I have work I leave at 9:40. Sometimes I can sneak in a nap for myself during the day, if not I catch up on sleep when I don't work. I consider myself a stay at home mom since I woke overnights and am home all day long everyday

My daughter wakes up around 6:30-7 when my husband gets up for work and she eats and goes back to sleep for a couple hours, usually until 10. While she sleeps in the morning I shower and clean as much as I can before she gets up. The rest of the day is a gamble! some days she's awake most of the day after her morning nap and some days she sleeps all day. The morning nap is a guarantee though so I take advantage of it. Lately my daughter has been awake more but she's a really good baby and doesn't cry unless she's hungry or needs her diaper changed so I can have her in the swing or on her play mat and I can clean and do whatever while she plays.

I would try and sleep when she sleeps when she was first born but found myself not getting anything done so I just sleep at night when she sleeps and deal with the tiredness! Usually she sleeps pretty good though, a 4-5 hour stretch and then 2-3 more hours until we wake up in the morning.

We don't have much of a routine yet at this point. We have four kiddos. 15,13,2 and baby boy is 9 weeks. The only thing we really stick to at this point is afternoon nap time and bed time, I do lay down when the two little ones do. In another week or so I probably won't. I tend to get in to more of a routine and schedule somewhere between 4-6 months. We kind of let the baby dictate and with it being summer we like to be out and about so cleaning and stuff gets done in the evenings or whenever I can sneak it in. The more deep cleaning stuff I do on the weekends when I have the hubby here to help with the kiddos.

I get up at 4 for the gym get back home by 6:40 am. I was some bottles and shower, My daughter ( 3 months old) wakes up around 7:30, toddler (3 years old) he wakes up around 8. We get up I make him breakfast & then feed both of them. Around 9:30 we get dressed I feed her once more. We pack up and head to town to do our daily errands.

We always return home no later than 12:30 nap time is no later than. 1. I put my toddler in bed he goes down for nap. Make Harper a bottle she goes down for a nap.

Mommy gets some quiet time to clean or relax from 1:30-3:30 or 4. When the kids wake up I give my daughter a bottle and snack for my son.

We play until daddy gets home around 5:30-6

He gets home & takes over the kids while I cook dinner. 8:00pm is bath time for both kids. Get them both to bed no later than 8;45 pm.

Then crash around 10 pm to do it all again tomorrow ?

You'll get your own routine soon

the key is to do it while baby is sleeping or while baby wearing. when she goes through a growth spurt it all kinda gets thrown off but I try my best to stick to daily routines.

-Get up by 9,baby usually falls back asleep 8-11ish after early morning feed(get up earlier if I want to workout)

-Clean bottles for the day

-Make bed/pick up after husbands nightly and morning mess

-Pick out baby girls outfit

-Get dressed

-Do my makeup and hair(sometimes no hair, depends on if baby has woken up)

-baby wakes up I change her diaper, apply lotion, get her dressed and feed her. This all usually takes about an hour.

-We play for a while until she starts getting tired again. I put her back to sleep.

-Around 1ish I clean/do dishes/tidy up/laundry

-Eat something

-Baby wakes up, diaper, feed, play, sleep. (Again takes about an hour or more)

-Me time.

-baby wakes up around with husband gets home (6ish)

-change diaper and feed

-feed husband and myself

-shower while daddy spends time with baby

-maybe go for a walk, but mostly just spend some time in the backyard

-play and try and keep her occupied until 9pm(no more naps or she won't sleep through the night) baby also cluster feeds and is super fussy from 6-9...not sure why

-9pm bedtime routine starts. Diaper change with destin diaper rash cream and overnight diaper, clean onesie, lotion applied, bedtime story read, fed and laid down in her bassinet.

-repeat

Thank you. This has definitely helped in many ways. It always makes me feel better when I know I'm not alone :)

Another question: Ladies who workout, how do you get the energy with being so exhausted from no sleep?

I want to workout so bad but I think that's why I'm trying hard for a routine so it can be more regular. Maybe I'm just pushing it too early? My little guy is 11 weeks.

Is anyone taking magical vitamins or something? Haha Seriously let me know. Maybe I need more coffee in my life. #MomHacks

Mine is crazy lol. My alarm goes off at 7. I go downstairs start the coffee and make my husbands breakfast and lunch. Then I wake him. My 3 kids seem to wander down around this time. My oldest (13) takes the dog out while I set the table and get their breakfast going. Then while they are eating and hubby showers I pump. My hubby goes to work. Baby is usually up around 8-830 then I feed her and change her and get her dressed for the day. Do whatever till lunch where I make lunch and clean up. My husband is off work at 5 and home by 530 I start dinner, depending on how long it takes , so it's done by the time he gets home. When he comes home we have a family dinner. I pass baby to daddy for daddy time, the other kids usually decide they need daddy time then as well, I clean the dinner mess. 630 starts showers. First our 4 yr old, 6 yr old then the 13 yr old. Then they have desert. Then its family time till bed time. They brush their teeth, go to the bathroom , have their bed time story, and go to bed. Baby gets her bath at around 8 and a bottle of breast milk by 9 I swaddle her and hand her to daddy to rock and I pump then I put her to bed. Oh and during the day, I pump for half hr every 2 hrs. Then we are in bed by 10.

I forgot to put that I workout also! Whenever I can. Usually while she's sleeping I'll do squats and I do 8 minute abs on YouTube. If she's awake I usually put her on her play mat and hang out with her on the floor while I do 8 minute abs

I have no energy to workout lol but I have this picture on my phone that says "wow I really regret doing that workout....said no one ever" and I kinda motivates me lol I just do 10min here and there (abs, squats...really no cardio)

I get my workout in by doing it super early. I wake up at 4:15 am to leave by 4: 40 get to my trainer & work out fr 5:15-6;15 get back home by 6:40 so hubby can get to the office by 7:10. I have one Starbucks coffee at some point midmorning but I sometimes will squeeze in a nap during the kids nap time (maybe a 30 minute quickie). Other than that nothing, I'm pretty much dead tired by bedtime but I love my me time at the gym. It's a trade off I guess, i would rather be dead tired but in shape than well rested & not ?

My older two are almost 14 and 9, so they do majority of cleaning. We have a cleaning schedule. Adah and I get up sometime between 7:30-9 am, she eats, might play for a little bit then she naps for a couple of hours. I try to do some laundry and cleaning while she's asleep, maybe even eat lunch. Then she gets up, eats, plays for a while and goes back to sleep, usually only for a little bit. She power naps most of the afternoon, and usually only has one long nap in the late afternoon. I try to work out while she's sleeping. Her daddy gets home and she spends time with him. We go to bed around 10. I have to say my big kids and hubby are a huge help.