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I had to wake the baby a lot to drop off and pick up my toddler at daycare and meet friends during my maternity leave.

I still cut naps short if we have plans because I like being on time and she sleeps well in the car.

I only cut short for very important things, so basically I never went to the gym or did outings that weren't super important to me. I don't really believe you can schedule babies until they are down to two naps...so closer to 6 months.

My 3 month old lives with a 2.75 year old so he gets unceremoniously woken up all the time. I barely think about him when scheduling stuff. I try to feed him right before I need to leave, so if he's sleeping I'll wake him up to eat and then put him in the carseat and he'll just go back to sleep in the car if he's tired. With my older son, we just did stuff and he'd nap en route or in the stroller or whatever, whenever he was tired until he was probably a year old. Before that point, we never based our plans around his schedule. We were maybe a little flexible through about 18 months when he still slept well in strollers and carseats, but after that point we stopped scheduling anything from about noon till 4 PM.

i avoided waking him up at all costs because it was so hard to get him to fall asleep in the first place, and he was not the type to fall asleep in a stoller/care/carrier, etc. it was rough. i didn't do much during maternity leave.

I totally know what you mean. My LO is 11 weeks & she is on a schedule. That way I can plan things around her naps & put her in the car right when it's naptime, and the movement puts her to sleep. To keep her on her schedule I do have to wake her up on occasion but usually our issue is her waking up too early.

@lawbee11: Ditto.

@kpc324: I haven't been able to attend a gym class since LO was born BUT since our gym daycare is open 8:30am-12:30 and 4:30pm-8:30, I go immediately after her nap (so shes happy and fed)....if you like the class structure, maybe bring an iPad (if you have one?), find a video you like on YouTube and do your workout in the empty classroom? I've been doing 30 day shred like that so I don't have to waste nap time working out!