Did you have some kind of schedule?

abba916

I will be trying to BF and do it on demand in the beginning and I'm all about napping when the baby does- but I want to try and keep some kind of schedule for showering, eating, and such myself...so did you have a schedule when LO was born? did it work? did you just roll with it?

sunnygirl05

I basically just rolled with it and did those things when I could.  My son did not like to be put down a lot so showering was tough.  Luckily I was able to shower daily but it meant bringing the bassinet in the bathroom and then showering as fast as I could before he'd start crying.  I'm not sure having a schedule is realistic with a newborn.  You just have to work around the baby's schedule since they seem to call the shots....lol!

jnk062602

Do you  have a pump?  The best thing I did was try to pump once a day.  Then, when you are exhausted you can sleep thru a feeding and DH can feed  LO. It was hard to find a time to pump so now I just pump one side while she nurses on the other side first thing in the morning.  For some reason I get as much out this way as pumping both sides in an extra session.  Now that I am not as exhausted I freeze the milk or use it during a growth spurt day.

As far as showering, I just hop in for 5-10 minutes while DH holds her or she is happy in the swing.  I eat while nursing, but she also nurses for 45 minutes at a time and I know some babies are a lot shorter. 

MelissaSue81

Nope.. and still don't.. It doesn't bother me though.

mrsoc

I was surprised at how hard it is to keep any type of schedule.  The only thing that I try to stick with is BF every 2 hours like the pediatrician has recommended.  I also had to pump after each feeding until yesterday as my milk was late coming in, because he was 3 weeks early.  I now just pump when I want the extra milk.  The thing that I have found I have the littlest time for is eating...I do now wish I had made some things ahead of time, but we are making do.  DH has been incredible.  He has off until next Tuesday and I do not know what I would have done without him here this week.  I am getting very little sleep as I find it hard to settle down, but I am able to function.  Today I was able to take a few naps.  I shower whenever I get the chance.  I even took a relaxation shower last night, just because I had a little extra time.   

olivia_eve

It's really hard to maintain a schedule with a baby.  You just never know when they're going to be sleeping, hungry, or crying.  I didn't get into a real schedule until DD was around 7 or 8 months.  For me early on, I considered it a good day if I had showered and eaten all of my meals.  The time that I ate or showered varied wildly, but I did get all of it accomplished.

Mrs_Hark

rolled with it until a schedule gradually formed, though i'm not sure if it the schedule was created by him, me, or a combination of both of us, but it happened just before i went to work- thankfully;

although the schedule will get a little scrambled on the weekends and with introducing rice cereal this past weekend we've been making adjustments here & there

with BFing though it's really important to keep up with either feeding or pumping regularly in order to keep up production

ArcticFox

I woudln't try to go with any schedule per se.  You'll want to be flexible for the baby.  Just do what you can/want while the baby sleeps and listen to your body/recovery.  If you're tired, sleep.  Then when you're rested and the baby  is sleeping, take a nap when you can.  Don't push yourself too hard, but you also will want that normalcy where you are doing things as usual as well. 

As a SAHM, I totally never believed either in forcing DD into any kind of schedule, but I'm sort of referring to later (like waking her at a time or putting her to bed at a particular time - I just went with her signals).

wendyj

I just rolled with it. I FF, but I still fed him on demand, which was every 3 hours or so. Some days I had the energy to shower right away, other days I waited until DH got home from work. After a while, I would bring the bouncy chair into the bathroom, and he'd hang out there while I showered. The sound of the water usually put him to sleep (he was a huge fan of white noise in those days). Don't put any demands on yourself - just see how things happen and eventually you'll figure out a routine that works for you.