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I am solo Mon-Thurs.
6 or 615(depends if I have to wash my hair) I get up, shower, makeup, and get dressed
615-700 R wakes up. If early she hangs out with me in the bathroom after her diaper change.
645-700 she eats breakfast and then I get her dressed
715 out the door
717 at day care( that close!)
723 I am on way to work
750 at work

I used to have to do it solo when dh worked nights. LO gets breakfast at daycare, but sometimes she's super hungry so I will heat up a frozen muffin, giver her a banana or something easy to eat while I eat breakfast too.

6:00 I wake up and shower get completely ready for the day
6:30 eat breakfast/coffee for myself pack milk and take everything to the car
6:45 wake LO up get her dressed, snack, brush teeth
7:10 out the door!
7:30 at daycare, she usually cries so I stay a while
7:50 leave daycare
7:55 at work!

I did solo am's, showered at night, but ony had a 2 min commute, so here goes:

7am DD wakes
7:10 bottle.
7:40 brekkie (this was REALLY hard at the beginning as she was/is a slow eater and I usually walked the dog with her between bottle and brekkie when I was off, so she wasn't used to the meal so soon after bottle)
8:15 out the door.
8:20 drop off
8:30 at my desk.

Before I got too pregnant I was up at 6 and walking the dog, DH eventually took that over, he leaves for work at 7am. She was 11m when I went back, and brekkie didn't get better til 13m or so.

Here is our approximate schedule. It is driven by the fact that the baby has to nurse at or after 6am in order to prevent him from needing a fourth bottle while I am at work. It is tough for me to pump enough for four bottles without having to pump at home.

If the baby is still sleeping at 5:30, then my alarm goes off and I get up and shower. Then I wake him sometime between 6 and 6:30 to nurse.

If the baby wakes me up before I manage to get in the shower, then I feed him and toss him in bed with my husband while I shower.

After he eats, I write notes for the nanny (how he slept, bottle schedule for the day, etc.) and finish getting dressed.

If the baby woke up before 6, then I top him off again at 7 before leaving.

Theoretically I leave the house at 7:15 and get to work at 8, but to be honest I often leave closer to 7:45 and get to work at 8:30. Usually I run late because I spend extra time playing with him! I have a professional job and keep my own schedule, so I can afford to do this but it makes my work day more crunched.

My husband is on baby duty between when I leave and when the nanny arrives at 8am. It is my responsibility to relieve her at 6pm, and he has more flexibility about how late he can stay at work. I need to be home by 6ish anyway in order to beat the fourth bottle.

Last week my husband was on a business trip. I was able to shower before the baby a few times, and then twice I just put him in a seat on the floor of the bathroom and watched him while I showered. And I had the nanny come at 7:30 so I could still get out the door relatively early.

I'm not solo in the mornings so I won't post my schedule for you - but I will share that, for us, the key is getting everything ready the night before. My clothes, E's clothes, towels, handbag, lunches, breakfast stuff - I even put spoons of instant coffee in the cups the night before! It sounds crazy but it shaves off time at each stage of the process. Good luck.

I do most mornings by myself since DH goes to the gym really early or is off to his work before DS wakes up. I'm also a night shower person!

7/730am: I wake up, get dressed, put my face on, etc.
730/8am: DS wakes up, I get him, change his clothes/dip as needed
8/830am: DS has milk/yogurt, I get lunch bag/coffee, and I either drop him off at my mom's, or my mom's over by this point and I head to work.

I arrive at work 830/9am.

Can you take your shower at night, so all you have to do is refresh and do your hair/make up? I realize that it may not be an option for a lot of reasons, but it can work.

Can you do something else productive while LO is eating breakfast? I currently eat myself and prepare pump parts and milk for LO. Also, if you have enough time, maybe you can shower after LO nurses.