Okay, so I'll give you a breakdown of a day in the Bear household...
6am: Hear Baby Bear wake up. Ignore crashing of toys, pattering feet and shouts of 'mummy, I awake!'
6.30: alarm goes off. Press snooze.
6.31: Squishy Bear starts grabbing my face and attempts to rearrange it whilst singing. Get out of bed, say good morning to BB and open stair gate. BB flees his bedroom and disappears down the stairs. Collect neat piles of clothes prepared the night before.
6.35: Catch BB and change his bum and get him dressed. Find SB who has learnt to zombie crawl and is attempting his escape. New nappy and dress him also. Feed BB
6.50: Make coffee. Give BB fruit and a drink so I get five minutes peace. Doesn't work.
7am: Hang out nappy wash.
7.10: Get dressed. By this time both babies will decide they want my attention and begin to whine.
7.20: Feed babies.
7.30: Drag BB to bathroom, wash his face and get our teeth brushed.
7.45: Put pram up and load it up with their bags and lunchbags.
8am: Eat breakfast. By this I mean run around the living room with my sons chasing me whining for more food whilst I try and shove porridge down my throat.
8.15 Make sure everybody is ready to go, and wake Daddy Bear.
8.30: shout a load of instructions at a half awake DB and run out of the house.
9-5.30: work a shift in a busy lab.
5.45 pick boys up from nursery. Load up pram. Drag to tired whiny boys home.
6pm Bath, PJs, night nappies, stories, cuddles etc etc etc.
6.30 pm: give BB milk, shut stairgate and door. In theory, he is done for the night. Sometimes he does wake, but he's fairly easy to settle. Start feeding SB. He's a monkey to feed and fidgets badly when he's tired.
7pm Pop sleeping baby in his crib. He WILL wake up the second his back touches the crib. Leave the room. SB will wail for about 30 secs before falling asleep.
Rest of the night will be spent putting on washing, tidying toys, packing mine and the boys lunches, packing bags for the next day, cook dinner, wash up, sterilise bottles... By the time I sit down it will be about 9pm, when DB comes in from work. I am usually falling asleep by this point.
This happens four days a week. One day is slightly easier as my mum has the boys and I don't have to sort nursery thighs out and she gets them ready for bed. Weekends are spent cleaning and general pottering I don't have time to do during the week.
I still use cloth, I still breastfeed when baby is with me, he has formula during the day as a) my damn breastpump broke. b) SB feeds so much I can't pump between feeds anyway, I still use slings (I've started tandem wearing at home!) so I still get to parent my way :)
desperately needing time off
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