5:30 a.m. : Wake up to feed Nora. She's been making it a little closer to 6 a.m. lately. She goes back to sleep right away after eating.
6:00 a.m.: Pump #1. Pumping is such a pain!
6:15 a.m.: Breakfast, get dressed and ready for the day.
6:30 -8:30 a.m.: Start teleworking. I can usually get through emails and start any data processing or other easy tasks, or work on programming.
8:30 a.m.: Nora usually wakes up and I feed her, get her dressed, and we head out to daycare.
8:45 a.m.- 5:30 p.m: Nora is at daycare. She has 4 bottles at daycare, one every 2 hours.
Meanwhile, if I'm commuting to work:
~10 a.m.: Arrive at work.
10:30 a.m.: Pump #2.
1 pm: Pump #3.
3:30 pm: Pump #4.
4 pm: Leave work and most likely fight awful traffic and stress out.
5-5:30pm (hopefully): Pick up Nora at daycare.
6pm: Feed Nora.
6:30-8 pm: Play, eat dinner with Kevin (he usually puts everything together while I entertain Nora), start cleaning bottles and pump parts while Kevin has the baby for a little while. Every other night we also give Nora a bath.
8 p.m.: Bedtime for Nora. Eats and we read two stories and sing a lullaby or two, then she's swaddled and placed in the crib. She usually passes out right away and sleeps until 5:30am the next morning (knock on wood).
8:30-10pm: Clean all the bottles and pump parts and prepare bottles for daycare (usually takes at least an hour). Do all my interneting. :) Pack lunch.
10 pm.: Pump #5 (see why I hate pumping so much? I have to do it all the dang time!)
10:30-11 pm: Finish interneting and head to bed.
On the days I work from home, I work more like 9 hour days since I don't have the lengthy commute, which helps me pick up any slack from all the pumping sessions. :)
Other working moms- how does your schedule compare?
And a little Nora photo for reading all of this:
I got exhausted just reading this blog entry. You really have amazing stamina!
ReplyDeleteHi Amy! Sounds crazy busy, and I can definitely empathize. My current schedule is: wake up at 5:30 to shower, 6:30 nurse Addie and get her ready, 7/7:30 out the door to work, 7:30/8 arrive at work, 11/11:30 leave work, 11:30/12 lunch with Addie, 12:30 nurse her and she goes down for a nap, I work until she wakes up (3/3:30), we play/ eat snacks/ etc. until 5:30 then I feed her dinner, 6 is her bath time, and 6:30 is her last nursing session and then bedtime, then I work on our dinner and continue doing my writing work until around 10:30/11pm (and sometimes even later). It is never-ending! You'll be happy once you stop pumping - although I must say even still it was bittersweet for me to put away the pump as it marked the end of a stage.
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Wow, busy schedule! I don't have one yet, but need to figure one out soon since I will be back to work sooner than I realize. Either way, the working mom schedule is busy busy busy!
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