https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:02:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196656 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:03:46 +0000 lemondrop 196656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hear ya, it's about the same at our house- the day just disappears! I have the same problem getting my son to bed between 9-10, but I know my husband also wants to spend some time with him after work. </p> <p>I just want to spend nap times and bed time relaxing a little, but I can't thoroughly enjoy them since I feel like I should be catching up on house work or my work from home time. </p> <p>Luckily nursing has been getting so much quicker now (~5 months), it we are usually done in under 10-15 minutes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196560 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:19:44 +0000 dookie32 196560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Relaxing- what's that?? :) We get home from work around 7pm (my husband and I carpool and he picks me up from the train). My son (3 months) is usually due for his bottle immediately so we feed him and then hang out for a few minutes. Then it's a bath or changing into jammies and going to bed around 8-8:15. After he's down for the night, we eat, do dishes, get bottles washed, and pack for day care the next day- by that time it's usually 9:45. I'm so wiped that I'm usually heading straight to bed at that point. </p> <p>We've only been doing this schedule for a few weeks so far but it's been really tough. I hate that I get to spend so little time with my son before he goes to bed. Making his bedtime later would be selfish on my part though and I know that he needs the rest (he sleeps straight through from 8-6). I currently have a 3 hour commute (1 1/2 hours each way) with my job so I am highly motivated to find something closer just so we can return to some kind of normalcy during the week. Eating dinner at 9pm is not working for me :). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196515 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:44:04 +0000 autumnlove 196515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It is hard and I often turn my head at clutter so I can spend more awake time with my LO. I cram a lot in after I put her down to sleep around 8:30...dishes, laundry, getting the daycare bag ready, hubby time, etc! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196514 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:43:51 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 196514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ditto honeybee. If it doesn't get done in the morning, it doesn't get done. Especially now that Lala has her school day slog, our evenings are so packed. </p> <p>I get home, clean lunch box, start prepping dinner, hopefully squeeze in a walk or run, cook, and after dinner get the kids ready for bed. Mei Mei is asleep by 7:30 every night. Lala is tougher, but once I get her to sleep, I'm exhausted and just veg out watching my politics shows. </p> <p>Luckily Mr. Jacks gets the dishwasher loaded at night so I can unload it and do laundry in the am! It's a team effort in our household! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196512 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:42:28 +0000 rachiecakes 196512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 6 months old and my evenings are STILL like that, lol..<br /> My day goes like this: get up at 6am, feed DS, put him back to bed, get his clothes, my clothes and my pump &amp; work bags ready, get dressed/shower/etc., out the door at 7:30am, at work by 8am, leave work at 5pm-ish, get home by 5:30, wash pump, make dinner bathe myself and LO, do his bedtime routine (which, like you, takes foreverrr) he's in bed by 9/9:30 usually and by then, I'm spent! Sometimes I get the energy to do dishes, pick up the downstairs - but some days, especially those days where he's been up during the night the night before, I'm ready to pass out after that full of a day! I feel like my house is always a mess :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196508 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:39:26 +0000 Honeybee 196508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Evenings aren't so bad at my house because the kids are generally easy to put down, and both of them are usually asleep by 8; so I do some housecleaning/chores after that and then read a little bit until going to bed myself.</p> <p>Really, I get the most done in the mornings, before the kids get up. I'm usually up at 5 and ready to go by 5:30, which gives me about an hour of uniterrupted time to do the dishes, fold laundry or clean the floors. I try to do dishes, laundry, and picking up every day, floors every other day, and save all my big cleaning for the weekends or the days the kids go to daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/evenings-with-a-newborn-after-work#post-196500 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:34:35 +0000 regberadaisy 196500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How do you find time to do anything???</p> <p>When I get home from work I nurse. Then I hang out with her for a bit if she's not fussing or give her a bath. Then somewhere in there eat dinner or cook if my mom or husband holds her. Then it's try to get her to sleep which is a looong process. </p> <p>I never get anything done! Laundry stacks up! Diaper genie overflows. Mornings are a rat race to get those things done. And that's WITH my mom here. What am I going to do when she's not??</p> <p>I think a lot of it is LO is so hard to put down. She has gotten better last couple days -knock on wood- going down at around 930/1000. But usually by 9 is when the work day and lack of sleep hits me so that when she goes down all I want to do is sleep too. I don't even want to get relax time in.</p> <p>I don't know what I'm going to do when my mom leaves! But then on the other hand I know it'll be a lot easier once we're in the new house because then my husband will be home to help out as well. And LO will also be older and hopefully less fussy. Anddd she'll be in her own room so I can actually go into our bedroom and grab laundry, clean, shower, etc.</p> <p>How do/did your evenings after work look with a newborn? </p>