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Right now I WAH 5 hours Tues and 4 hours Thurs. I keep her with me.

I get up around 6:30, feed her, pump, get online, put her on the play mat, and she will stay entertained for about an hour (she's 4.5 months).

Around 8:30 she is ready for her first nap of the day, where she usually sleeps 90 minutes with one wake up in between. If I am busy at work I work during this time, if not sometimes I use it to workout. Once she's up from her nap, I feed her again and put her in the jumperoo or something similar to try to get more work done, but sometimes I just pay with her until her afternoon nap (another 1.5 hours) for me to get more work done. It is harder than I thought but I MUCH prefer it to putting her in daycare.

@ksnow: hey, did you ever get a nanny? my LO is almost 7 months now and my office is in her nursery unfortunately. i connect from the laptop to my desktop, but i have to work in the kitchen during her naps.

i'd love to see some more WAHM schedules!

Our LO is scheduled to arrive in early January, and I've been thinking a lot about this. I'll be taking 6-8 weeks off (I run a design & business strategy studio from home), and then I hope to have help M, W, & F so I can work. Otherwise, I'll be in mama mode. I've been trying to convince my hubby to come work with me for years, and I have a feeling his paternity leave will make him want to stay home for good. WAH is challenging, but totally doable ... Hoping it stays the same when baby arrives.

DS is 2.5 years.

8:00-8:30 Drop of DS at daycare, it's only a 5 min walk so I'm home quickly after. Get started working right away (or respond to HB ;-), like right now).
10:00 Coffee break for 15ish minutes.
11:50 break for lunch.
12:30 pick up DS from school. We come home, read stories and he goes to bed right around 1:00.
1:00-3:00ish work until DS is up from his nap.

Usually I am done for the day at that point, but if I need to finish something I'll have him play while I finish (this doesn't always work).