What time do you wake up and how long is your commute to work, including day care time? Having a rough second day back...
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Hubs is up by 5 and out of the house by 5:30
Alarm 1 goes off at 5:45, Alarm 2 goes off at 6
Goal is to get out of the house by 7 so I can get coffee, go to daycare and be in work at 8.
Most days we leave around 7:30-7:45 (I have a toddler) Skip coffee and pay the tolls on the turnpike so i can make it to work by 8:30. -
Wake up at 7, leave the house at 8. DH takes the kids to drop off around 8:30, he's usually in his office by 9. I go straight to work and get there around 9:15.
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I'm sorry.... It was really hard to get in the rhythm at first. Esp if you have to do multiple feedings before you leave the house. I would always try to "top her off" before getting in the car since we drive about an hour door to door. At least the weather is nice I went back to work in January and had to deal with a bijillion snow and ice storms that year. Its gets easier and they start talking and telling you they dont want to wake up, or take forever to do anything and god forbid you rush them
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I get up at 6:30 and we are out of the house by 8:10. I have a 40-50 minute commute (included daycare drop-off).
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It will get better!! Hugs
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I get up at 6:35 and get ready, wake baby up at 7, out the door at 7:20, daycare drop off at 7:30 and 25 minutes to work from there.
Hope tomorrow is better!
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I'm up at 5:45 and leave the house at 6:40 after starting breakfast for DD. DHdoes daycare drop off.
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I wake up at 6:15, DD usually up at 6:30 and we are out the door to school for her/train for me to downtown by 7:15a. It's really hard and takes some getting used to but you'll get there. You're in NYC correct? I'm in Chicago so I have a long commute into the city. Some days are harder than others. I would recommend getting as much stuff ready the night before so the morning isn't a huge rush. Good luck and lots of hugs!!!
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It varies a bit day to day, but in general we both get up around 6, are out the door at 7:15, and I have to be at work at 8. DH gets to work around 8:15. I do drop off and DH does pick up.
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I'm usually up at 4:45 to go to bootcamp, back at my house by 6:20, out the door with the girls by 8:00(ish?). There's about a 15 min commute to their daycare, and then another 10 min to my work. I'm at work between 8:30 and 9
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Up at 6 if I have to wash my hair, it not than 6:20 or so. Get ready, wake up DS1 at 7 if not already up. Leave house at 7:20 to 7:30. Drop him off (he eats breakfast there). I'm at work around 8:10 on a normal traffic day. My mom watches DS2 at my house. It's easier once the kids are older because there is less to prep.
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I wake up at 6am, shower and dress. If LO is awake by then (6:30ish) then I get her up, nurse/diaper change/dress. Then load up my lunch and make my breakfast and load up the car. Otherwise I load up the car and then wake her up. Leave the house close to 7am (which is roughly when DH gets up), daycare by 7:15-20. Leave daycare at 7:30 and my work starts with my first patient at 7:45am.
I get everything humanely possible ready the night before, even picking out LO's daycare outfit and my underwear! Lunches are packed, I just have parts in the fridge and her milk to put in with my freezer pack. I put a sticky note on the door with everything that needs to be in my hands when leaving, especially if there's something like my pump parts were still in the dishwasher when I went to bed so they need to be packed up.
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Going back to work can be so hard. You will find your groove soon.
DH is up at 6.45, out of the house by 7.15am to get to work by 8am. I'm up as soon as he is out of the shower, get showered, dressed and get E ready, then I leave the house at 7.30am. 45 mins across the city to nursery, then 1 hr to work..... so I usually get to work by 9.30am. I have to leave at 4pm to collect her, so I make up my hours from home in the evenings.
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I'm really lucky because DH goes in significantly later than I do, whether it's a work or school day. Most of my classes start at 8, and I leave at 7:15. My work days start at 8, and I leave at 7am. DH does most of the daycare drop-offs then, because he doesn't start work until 9-10am, and we live a mile from his job.
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Up around 6:30, get myself ready really quickly before LO wakes up, then we have breakfast and get her ready, our door by 8ish, drop off at 8:15.
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@LindsayInNY: Sorry you're having a tough time mama -- going back to work is HARD!
I work 2-3 days from home and 2-3 days in the office. Luckily I have a very flexible schedule. On days I commute into the office we tend to get up around 6am, nurse, change, eat breakfast, out of the house around 8am. Drive an hour to Grandma's house, drop off DS. Then I have another 20 minute drive into my office. I don't usually get in much before 9:30am on those days. I usually try to spend at least one night at my mom's house a week because DS is not a huge fan of 2+ hours a day in the car. Sometimes we'll spend the night then get up the next morning and head home and I'll work from home.
I honestly do not have it figured out AT ALL and it is one of the biggest stressors in my life right now. I'm looking at starting him in daycare 2-3 days a week near my house, then continuing to go into my office the other 2-3 days, but at least this way it will be more set in stone. Although with our line of work nothing tends to be "set in stone"
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Getting into a groove is so hard at first! It
becomes second nature soon, though!We have kind of an odd schedule. DH is up at 5 and goes running. I sleep until he gets back, around 5:45, and then I get up and go running. He showers while I'm out, then I jump in the shower when I get back. I work from home 4 days a week and I log in by 7:00. I work for an hour, then at 8 get the two kids up and ready and off to preschool/daycare. I'm back by 9 and work until 4. It's pretty much the same on days I go into the office, except I don't get to my desk until 9:30 and work until 5-ish.
When I first went back to work from maternity leave, I could not figure out how the heck it was all going to work with drop offs and commutes. Working from home has been a lifesaver, as has been my emoloyer being cool with me just being MIA for an hour every morning. It hadn't occurred to me to ask for that until a fellow coworker mom said she does it and got it approved!
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I wake up at 5:45 and I have to be at work at 8:00. My commute is 12 minutes and I don't have to do dropoff
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We have about a 20-minute commute and DD's daycare is across the street from my office, so unless it's a rough drop-off, it's only about 5 minutes from there to my desk. I have a pretty flexible schedule, so we tend to wake up when DD does (generally 7ish) and aim to be in the office around 9 or so. But our mornings are kind of a mess so we don't really have hard and fast times to wake/leave/arrive.
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Hugs!!! Going back to work sucks. I wake up an hour before I leave for work to get myself ready, prepare bottles and her daycare bag and then I have a 30 minute commute. I have to leave super early for work so I don't do the drop off, and the trade off is that my husband and daughter are both still sleeping when I leave
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@Worrywart: What time does that get you to work?
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@Cherrybee: Sounds similar to my commute now
@NorCalWayfarer: Our daycare is the tough part for me... It's 20 minutes from home but the past two days it's taken me longer from daycare to office resulting in two hours total.
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@LindsayInNY: I take the 7:31 train in, it gets into downtown Chicago at 8:18. I then take a bus to the office, I'm in about 8:35-8:40.
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Hugs.
adjusting to being back at work is tough, but it will get easier!DS often wakes us up
at 5:30, but our alarm is set for 6. We tag team getting LO ready and taking showers etc, and all eat breakfast together at 7ish. We are out the door by 7:30. I usually drop off at daycare and am on my way to work by 7:45. My commute is about an hour so I get to work by 8:45. It's kinda crazy that most days I am awake for 3 hours before I get to my desk!
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@LindsayInNY: aww, it gets easier I swear!!!
My routine is a little ridiculous, but it works. We have baby #2 coming any day and who knows how this will change but for now;
I wake at 6:15 ( I shower, as DH leaves early!)
LO usually up between 6:30 and 7
Bring him down, I make us both breakfast, pack lunches, some screen time so I can get myself ready (and I get my today show screen time, haha) I drop at daycare at 8:30, then it's about an hour drive into the city, more like 1hr15, but that's why I go in late, to miss traffic!I work a bit later too, but since DH goes in early, he can leave early to make the 6pm pickup time.
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Hugs mama. We aren't doing daycare but I get up really early and it's rough especially because I only get about 2 hours a day with baby. And my job is exhausting
I wake up at 615 am. Bf the baby if he is stirring otherwise leave him with dad in bed. Leave the house at 715 to get to work at 8 am. Work til 4pm and pick up baby at the train station so dad can go to work. Get home by 5 and put baby to bed at 6ish.
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Aw, I'm sorry. Going back to work is so hard.
I get up at 5:15, my lazy husband sleeps an extra 10 minutes. I try to be ready by 6 so I can get Bennett up and get him dressed and ready while my husband makes breakfast. I'm out the door by 6:20, husband feeds Bennett breakfast and takes him to daycare. I usually get to work by 7:30 (unless traffic is bad).
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DH gets up at 4:45 and I get up around 5:30. Sometimes earlier if the baby wakes up (today was 4:45 for me, too). We leave the house at 7:00 and I work at 7:30. It's a bit up in the air with a nursing and not consistently sleeping babe. It's been over a month and I still don't have it down pat yet!
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I wake up at 6:15 and make lunches and shower. dH leaves at 6:45. I wake LO up at 6:45 and we eat breakfast together and leave the house at 7:15-7:30. I drop her off to daycare and then commute to work. Depending what school I am at my commute is 45 mins- 1.5 hours. I am an SLP and work across a large school district.
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M/w/f wake up at 6, out the door at 7 to meet my in-laws at 730z
T/th wake up at 630, out the door at 730 to drop off at the sitter at 8.I'm at work by 8:15.
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On the days SO has to get to work by 6: up by 5, gets ready (showers the night before), boys up, potty for lo1, gets them dressed & out the door by 5:30. Daycare by 5:45, work by 5:50, has a coffee and starts work. (The boys eat breakfast at daycare).
Days he gets called in/off days: up when lo1 gets up, usually 6:30-7. Gets boys dressed, albeit a little more leisurely, out the door by 7:30, daycare by 7:45 & and then comes home to wait for the call for work (usually 8-8:30).
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Hugs. It gets easier as you get into the swing of things.
DH usually gets up around 6 and I tend to get up around 6:30. We're out the door by 8 or 8:15 usually. It takes me about 30-35 min to get LO to daycare and then arrive at work. DH heads in a different direction and it takes him about 45 min to get to work.
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@blackbird: this makes me feel so much better.
I'm supposed to be in by 7:30 but that hasn't happened ever.
I get up 6/6:15 get myself and both kids ready with dh's help. We try to leave by 7 do daycare office drop off and in the office by 8. Ideally I'd be out the door by 6:30 but waking up before 6 when the baby is still waking multiple times a night is my form of torture.
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@jetsa: I iope they both start waking less soon! It's ridiculous
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Wake Up - either 5:30am or 6am (depending on if I want to straighten my hair!
)Out the door - 6:45 to 7:15am ... usually depending on if I am prepping a crock pot meal, LO sleeps longer or I am just generally behind.
Commute - 12-15min to Daycare, 10 mins from Daycare to work. Work arrival between 7:30 and 8am...depending on when we leave the house and how long I stay and hang out with K at daycare!
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I wake up at 5 AM, we all are up and ready to go by about 7 AM. It is about 10 minutes to her daycare, and then another hour to work. Same length of time on the way home.
That equates to leaving the house at 7 AM and getting home around 6:30 PM every night. It is hard!
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@LindsayInNY: that's a really rough commute
no suggestions but that must be really hard
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@LindsayInNY: I'm so sorry. It's always hard adjusting to a different routine. We just started DS in daycare last week and DH just got a new job so we're still adjusting but our mornings are like this. DH wakes up at 6:15 to shower then wakes up me and the little guy at 6:30. I get ready while DH gives DS breakfast and changed. Then I hustle downstairs by 7am, get all our stuff together and pack up the car. Out of the house by 7:10am and DH finishes getting ready and leaves about 7:20 and gets to work by 8am. DS and I get to daycare by 7:30 and then I get into the office around 8. This is how it's suppose to be in theory at least. We're like 80% there...
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Up between 5 and 515, out the door by 605, to work by 7 am so about an hour commute.
ETA: DH does daycare drop off as he doesn't have to leave the house until 7 ish
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no suggestions but that must be really hard
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