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A Day in the Life…with a Baby.

November 17, 2014 Comments : 7

I’ve never really written one of these posts before, but now that I have a baby to take care of throughout the day, there’s a lot more ‘routine’ in my day!

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6:30am – Usually this is when Blair wakes up hungry…her last feeding was around 11pm, so she slept a pretty decent stretch. I can’t complain! M changes her and hands her to me to feed her, while I’m still in bed.
7am – I burp her and she falls back asleep, so back to bed she goes. So do I!
8:30am – I wake up and go downstairs to make coffee and breakfast. I usually try to straighten up the living room, kitchen and do some laundry (there’s tons of baby laundry these days…) while I have the chance. 
9:15-9:30am – I wake Blair up. We are (somewhat loosely) following Moms on Call, and one of the principle rules is to never skip the 9am feeding. For whatever reason, it works well! I take her out of her Halo Swaddle (she sleeps in this every night), change her diaper and take her downstairs to feed her. We usually watch the Today Show while she’s eating. 🙂

10am – I get some work done for the next hour or two while she’s content (usually). Sometimes she naps on my chest while I’m on the laptop, or I put her in her swing, which she loves 99% of the time.

11am-12pm – Sometimes she gets fussy around this time, so I try everything to calm her down. If nothing is working, I’ll feed her again. This week, she’s only been going 2-2.5 hours between feedings during the early part of the day. I think it’s a growth spurt!

12pm – I usually try to grab something for lunch while I can. While I used to just eat whenever I felt like it (and that meant skipping lunch sometimes), I try to make sure I eat at least something nutritious since I’m breastfeeding. If she’s not screaming, I’ll take my time and eat a real lunch, but if she’s fussing, sometimes I’m holding her and trying to eat something quick at the same time. 
12:30-1:30pm – She’s usually pretty content around this time, and I’m either holding her or she’s watching the mobile and listening to the music in her swing. It’s also been a good time to get more work done most days.

1:30-2pm – It’s time for Blair to eat again. She doesn’t eat much at this time of day it seems like, and then she falls asleep in my arms most days. 
2-4pm – I usually get work done during this time of day. There’s a lot of diaper changing, bouncing her on my legs to entertain her, and such, but I have my laptop beside me and find it pretty easy to multitask!

4-4:30pm – Even if she’s napping, I usually wake her by 4:30 to feed her again, because when M gets home, we all go for a run with the BOB stroller. 

5-5:45pm – She’s usually happy around this time, and we play on her activity mat while we wait for M to get home.
6:30pm – We change her diaper, strap her in the car seat, and put her in the BOB to go for a run. She screams at the beginning (hates getting in the car seat), but she falls asleep as we’re running.

7:30pm – We get back home and I feed her while M cooks dinner. If she’s not screaming when we get home, I try to take a shower first, but that doesn’t always work out. When she’s hungry, she means business. 😉

8-8:30pm – We eat dinner while trying to entertain her – sometimes she’s fussy during this time of night for no apparent reason…so we just do what we can to calm her down! 
8:30-9pm – We give her a bath, then I rub her down with some baby lotion, which she doesn’t love! We swaddle her for bedtime afterwards.

9pm – She usually sleeps for 30 minutes to an hour. If not, one of us tries to entertain her while the other cleans the kitchen and straightens up the living room (it’s necessary multiple times in a day these days).
10-10:30pm – We go upstairs and I feed her in bed. She usually drifts off to sleep after a little while.
11-11:30pm – Blair finishes eating, we change her diaper and put her to bed. She usually sleeps all night, until 6:30 or 7am!

As you can see, I don’t nap at all. I think I’ve napped twice since we brought her home from the hospital…whoever said ‘nap when the baby naps’ is crazy, just FYI 😉 Maybe it’s just me…but I find that when she sleeps, I can actually get some things done around the house. And I do like a clean house…so no naps, it is!

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