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Here's our morning schedule:

5:00 a.m. - Wake up, nurse Xander, put back to bed
5:30 - Hop in the shower
6:00 - Makeup, hair, get dressed
6:10 - Pump!!
6:30 - Hubs finally wakes up, starts getting ready for the day
6:40 - Wash pump parts, pack pump, pack lunch, get bottles ready if we didn't do it the night before
6:50 - Leave for work!
7:00 - Hubs wakes up Xander, changes his diaper, and brings him to daycare
7:30 - Hubs leaves for work

ETA: Wanted to add that Hubs has breakfast at home and I usually get breakfast on my way to work.

@Adira: i like the "finally" when you mentioned DH waking up...

our morning routine (LO is 5.5 months old):
5:00am: i wake up, brush teeth, wash face, etc. (i take showers at night), feed dogs, get breakfast out, pack pump parts (which DH ideally has washed the night before)
5:15am: nurse LO. DH wakes up and walks dogs.
5:30am: we eat breakfast (LO sits in high chair and plays with non-messy finger food, liked steamed broccoli and carrots)
5:45am: i put on makeup, get dressed, DH takes shower
6:05am: i leave for work
6:30 or 6:45am: DH leaves for daycare drop-off and work

i don't work out these days, although i could in the evenings after LO goes to bed. i just don't!

6:45: Wake up, wake up LO, nurse LO
7:15-8: Shower, get ready, get bags ready, let dog out, etc.
8: Leave for daycare/work (DH and I drive together)
(Eat breakfast either on the way to work or at work)

I'm just not a good fit for morning workouts. And waking up an extra 30 minutes early to pump is really not interesting to me...and I don't want to exercise with full breasts.

So, until I'm done breastfeeding, I've decided not to stress out about working out. Managing a breastfeeding infant, a house, a husband, and a full time job is enough for me right now. Once we are done nursing I will reconsider adding in a more regimented workout schedule. These days my exercise includes family walks, occasional yoga classes and 5ks, and rough housing with my kid

Mine really depends on when R wakes up. This was this morning

530: I wake up, shower and wash hair, get ready.
6:25: Throw everything in the car. I make lunch and bottles the right before. I
6:30: Wake up R, change diaper, get dressed, nurse.
6:55:Throw my shirt on and we are out the door
7:20: Drop her off:
7:40: Get to work

I was late this morning. I also eat breakfast at work every morning. Tomorrow I can sleep a little later since I don't have to wash and blow dry my hair.

As for finding time to work out, still trying to find it

I don't have a schedule yet as I don't go back to work til September, but just wanted to say this is a great thread! I was planning to ask this question as I got closer to my return to work date.

@blackbird, @highwire: the outfit thing is so simple but makes SUCH a difference. I learned it from another blog, about spending 30 minutes a week taking care of your clothing. I can not tell you how many times I have had to change my undergarments or realized the shoes needed to be resoled, etc. And that always happens on a morning when my son wakes up earlier than usual!

I also changed up my hair, I got an American Wave at the salon to help me better deal with the frizziness. It's a curl treatement that enhances my natural wave to a true curl, so I can better style it. It was either this or flat iron and I will take scrunching in some curl creme and air drying over that any day!

7:00 am wake up, potty and shower
7:20 am dress and toothbrushing
Misc stuff like refilling backpack though I try to do this at night
7:45 am out the door (in theory often closer to 8:00)
8:00 am at preschool for breakfast
8:30 am at work

I don't do makeup or hair. If I don't have to work at 8:30 am I don't shower and that saves us some time.

Today was a little rough because he decided he didn't want to go to school so at 7:45 he stripped for me and we had to redress him and get him in the car.

630: Nurse in our bed
7: dipe change, DS sleeps again
7/730: DH and I get ready for work
8/830: DS is up and my mom is over.
830: DH and I leave for work

we have it pretty easy since my mom watches DS at our home. i usually do the morning dipe change since i'm up from nursing, but sometimes if i'm really tired, dh does it.

i workout at night after DS goes down at 7/730. i also shower at nighttime.

5:00- DD wakes up, not caring that my alarm won't go off for 30 more minutes. I nurse her while DH gets up to let dogs out.
5:15- I shower while DH plays/reads to with DD. Then we switch.
5:45- We both dress while DD crawls around/gets into everything.
6:15- DD eats breakfast in highchair as we finish packing bottles/lunch for all of us. We also feed dogs, make sure all daycare stuff is packed, my gym bag is packed.
7:15- leave for daycare. It doesn't open until 7:30 and I head straight to work after.

We wash all bottles/pump parts the night before, and pack as much of DD's lunch as possible the night before. We have ample time in the mornings, but I'm hoping DD will start sleeping later (wishful thinking, I'm afraid) so that we can all sleep in a little. I work out at lunch (and am just sweaty in the afternoons) and do a Pure Barre class a few nights a week after DD is asleep.