Daycare Mom's ?

emilydholmes1 · December 2010

What is your morning routine with LO? Do you dress him in clothes for the day or leave him in a sleeper if he is just waking up? We start daycare Jan. 3rd and lately LO has been sleeping until 7:30/8ish in the mornings. I will have to have him up and out the door by 7:15 when he starts daycare. Do you just wake your LO's up to get ready when they are still sleeping? How does that work for you? Or did you adapt their sleeping patterns so they are up in time to go? Any advice, tips, suggestions? TIA.

klboyd1975 · December 2010

I have to be at work by 8:30 am, so my 4 month old is up and dressed by 730 am, I'm lucky because my daycare is 5 mins from my job.

LJR 84 · December 2010

Well...DD gets up around 5am every day, so I don't have to worry about waking her up. We get her dressed for the day, and a bottle in before we leave the house around 7. Establishing a good routine definitely takes a good week or 2. I know it did for us! But now, it's easy.

RitaT22 · December 2010

I don't daycare, but my friend babysits. DS is up at 6:30 (on a good day. others he wakes up earlier), and I always dress him before we leave the house. I don't walk outside in pjs, why should he?

Tippy05 · December 2010

DH drops DS off in the morning and doesn't go in until 8:30 so he's up by then. Personally, I would try to get him up and at least dressed before you drop him off. I would start working on this new schedule now so that it's easier when you have to go back in a few weeks. Maybe put LO to bed a little earlier so you don't have to actually wake him/her up?

Talk to the daycare. Maybe they won't mind dressing LO in the morning. Do whatever works for you, but like I said, I'd start practicing your morning routine now. GL!

JillAly · December 2010

My 4 month old is still groggy and half asleep in the morning. I have a 55 minute commute on a crowded subway so I don't want to totally wake her up to get her dressed b/c she'll cry on the subway and that doesn't make for a fun commute. I started dressing her the night before in the clothes she would wear to daycare the next day. Then in the am I just put her coat on and we go. It's SO much easier that way.

I think if it were hot out and she was sweating at night, it would be a different story, but it's freezing outside so I think it works out well this way.

katie277s · December 2010

I make sure I have everything ready to go before I wake him (bottles prepared, packed, my bags packed, etc). Then I wake him around 7:15, change and dress him and we are out the door by 7:30ish.

emilydholmes1 · December 2010

Thanks, we are going to do a couple dry runs before he starts. It is rough to get his routine down because his sleep is so inconsistent still at this point and while I'm okay with that, I don't want it to cause morning issues. Some mornings he will be up at 7 and others he could sleep until 9 no matter what time he goes down at night. I think I'll have to wake him up and change and get him dressed and then by the time we get to daycare,he will probably already be ready for his morning nap. Hopefully, after a couple weeks of being woken up at the same time, he will just naturally wake at that time.

snansley · December 2010

He'll get used to the routine pretty quickly. We send DS to daycare dressed and fed. Drop-off can be a busy time for daycare so I want him to be comfortable when he gets there (he usually is ready for a nap anyway). If he isn't awake when I get up, I go ahead and shower. If he is up and hungry, I feed him then get myself ready.

Also, our mornings go so much smoother if bottles are made the night before, bag is packed. etc.

STFWIFE · December 2010

I wake DD#2 up at 6 so I can nurse her and then pump, then I dress her and we are out the door by 7. Some morning like this morning she woke on her own at 5:30 so I had to finish getting ready after she was all taken care of. She is on a pretty solid routine. On the weekends I let her wake on her own and she wakes at about 6:30.

AprilCachet · December 2010

My DH leaves later than me but I drop DS off. So I pull out DS's clothes for the day and DH dressed DS while I am getting myself ready. DS is usually still sleepy enough that he sleeps through the dressing process. However if he wakes up DH will give him a bottle and we are out the door by 7.

pixy_stix · December 2010

I get up at 6, wake her up, change her diaper, feed her, put her back down to sleep, get ready for my day and leave. DH gets up later, dresses her and takes her to daycare.

It works for us, because it works with how she sleeps. She gets up in the morning to eat and then wants to continue sleeping. Keep trying new routines until something clicks. If it's not working, don't force it. Just makes for a miserable time for everyone involved.

JJ1973 · December 2010

Our LO naturally gets up at around 4:30 or 5 most days (sometimes 4am...ouch). So, I've adjusted my schedule to match his. I try to shower before he wakes up (4:30ish) and then if he's not up by 5, I wake him up to nurse and get changed, then we have a little bit of play time while my husband and I get ready (we trade) and we're out the door by 6:15, to daycare by 6:30ish, then I'm at work by 7. It works for us. We're tired, but part of the reason we start so early is so that we can spend some time with him prior to when he goes to daycare, as this is when he is alert and happy. He enjoys his morning time with us. He's so exhausted in the PM (naturally given how early he gets up!).

tyke29 · December 2010

LO wakes up between 6 and 6:30, we dress him (but he wears sleepers to daycare about half the time), change, and feed him before leaving.

historychick79 · December 2010

I prep everything I can the night before (bags for DS's bottles, lunch, pump parts, his and my clothes). I wake at 5:50 and ideally get to shower, dress with nursing cami, do hair and makeup, finish bags and have a quiet breakfast until 6:40. I then get DS up, change diaper and nurse (not much anymore, he doesn't seem big on breakfast), and then change into daycare clothes. I then change into my work top, warm up and pack car while DH plays with DS, and then pack him in carseat for daycare. We are out of the house between 7:20 and 7:30 (including cleaning off car and driveway from snow, urgh). I built in the 10-15min for my breakfast as 'me' time, and for when DS does get up early and things take longer for me to do.For me, I try to keep his pj's for nighttime and do a clothing change to help him eventually tell the difference between night and day.

CodyGH · December 2010

We leave DS in his pajamas most days. Sometimes he spits up on his pajamas after his morning bottle or I want him to wear something really cute, so we change him.

Our routine is this... I get up at 5:30 to pump (I EP), DH gets DS up at 6 am and feeds him while I get into the shower and get ready. If DH needs to get ready before I am ready to leave the house, we just put DS in a swing near us and he hangs out and watches while I fix my hair and makeup. Everything in terms of bottles and diaper bag are ready the night before. I throw everything in the car, grab DS, and we are out the door by 7:15 at the latest. We always feed DS before taking him to daycare because when he wakes up, he's so hungry and he would scream the entire drive to daycare if we didn't. So waking him up right before I leave is not an option for us.

We've been waking DS up at 6 am for a really long time. It's part of his schedule that he's on. Most days I think he could sleep longer, but that's why we've been pushing his bedtime back. It was 9:30 pm and now it's closer to 8:30 pm.

BeccaBabyBecca · December 2010

I get up and get myself ready, make my lunch, pack the diaper bag, etc from 6:00 until 6:45. I go into LO's room at 6:45, turn on a lamp, unswaddle him, and let him stretch and wake up a little bit while I pick out clothes and bring them over to the changing table. I get him up and dressed, then give him a bottle, and start putting him in the carseat and bundling him up around 7:15 so I can leave by 7:20.

LO sleeps about 11 to 11.5 hours every night. I asked the pediatrician if I should put him to bed a little earlier every night until he starts waking up on his own around the time I need him to be awake, but she said no, that I should not expect him to wake up on his own until he's older.

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