I want to remember EVERYTHING with Dominick and I wish (or maybe I did, but can't remember) I would have done this when he was a newborn, but alas now that he's almost 6 months I will start. I'm not sure we have typical days anymore, but here is what a work day usually looks like for us.
5:30-6:20ish - I start my day, eat breakfast and finish packing bags and loading the car.
6:20-7:00 - Dominick wakes up. I feed him, get him ready for his day and we also do some playing before we have to leave. Sometimes he'll wake up earlier and I'll put him in our bed with some toys. Mornings are his happiest time of the day so he will just play and jabber.
7:05 - We leave the house. I take him to his babysitters where he stays while I'm at work.
7:30-4:00 - I am at work. Very rarely will I leave for lunch, but I have gone to see Dom and sometimes will meet a friend or Ryan for lunch. Ryan works 7:00-4:00 and has an hour lunch which 9/10 times he will go home.
4:10 - I pick up Dominick and we go home. As soon as we get home I will feed him.
4:30 - Ryan is normally home by 4:30 every day and normally before. When he gets home I start dinner and Ryan spends time with Dominick.
5:00 - I will normally try to get Dominick to drink a little more before he gets his "meal". He gets a vegetable and a fruit every night. A lot of times we do pouches (since they normally already consist of a vegetable and a fruit) where he'll get half, but sometimes we do jars and he'll only get a third from the vegetable and between 1/4-1/3 of fruit. Sometimes he won't eat at all, but most nights he will eat everything we give him.
6:00/6:30 - we eat dinner. Sometimes before, but we never eat much later than this.
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| this picture is so funny to me because he has SO many toys in front of him. He will play with them all and he loves the music. HA! |
6:00-7:15 - Family time. We will play, read, and cuddle. I also will feed Dominick again before we start bedtime routine. During this time and dinner time Ryan and I catch up on each others days too. It's my favorite time of the day.
7:15-8:00 - Bedtime routine. Dominick only gets a bath every other night (due to his eczema, it's not horrible, but he can't have baths every day anymore). I lotion him up which takes such a long time since we use a special cream on his eczema spots, aquafor on his body and aveeno on his face and hands (we do this every night regardless of bath or not). After bathtime he gets a story read to him and fed one more time. He is always ready for bed by 8:00. Most nights it's a struggle to even keep him up til 8. I don't like him going to bed much before because then he gets up earlier. We normally follow his cues and we don't like to fight too much with him. If he's REALLY tired we put him to bed early, sometimes during our dinner he'll go down for a cat nap and sometimes he will just want to go to bed at 7:30 and there's no stopping him.
*Ryan will go to the gym a lot after dinner and when I start getting Dominick ready for his bath. Sometimes, he'll go after Dominick is sleeping so he can read him his book. It just all depends.
8:00-10:00 - We pick up the house, sweep, do laundry, clean up from dinner, pack our stuff for the next day (this is mostly just me. I get Dominick's bag ready, if I need to take milk I pack this in a cooler bag so it's ready to go in the morning, pack my lunch, clean my water bottles, set out both of our clothes, clean/sterilize pump parts and bottles). Ryan is studying for SSgt right now so he spends at least an hour studying since he's only in the beginning stages and he is also taking 2 classes so he'll write papers or discussion questions. This is also our time where we will watch TV, play on our phones and relax for a little while as well.
10:00-11:00 - we try to be in bed by 10, but most nights it's not until 10:30 or 11:00.
+Dominick eats so much from 4-8 because during the day he only eats around 7-10 oz. He gets a bottle at 9 and a bottle around 1 and he only eats 3.5 oz from each even though each "packet" is 5 oz. I asked our doctor why and if I should be worried; he said some babies will eat less when they have to take a bottle when they are breastfed and more when they are with their mommas. We do a lot of cluster feedings at night. He doesn't have a problem taking a bottle, but will eat just enough to get by.
+Dominick NORMALLY wakes up once or twice during the night. I try to give him his pacifier and he will go back to sleep. If he wants to eat then I bring him to bed. We don't do the cry it out method at our house because we both work and to us we need to sleep. We know that he will EVENTUALLY sleep through the night on his own, but until then we just bring him to bed and I'll feed him or sometimes he just goes right back to sleep. To US we have enough going on with Ryan testing for a promotion soon, school and both of us working it's not worth fighting to get him to sleep all night. That's just us. We've had a lot of people tell us that a couple horrible nights of sleep is worth a million nights of uninterupted, but we just don't care to try. We are all doing well with what we're doing now.
+We live for the weekends together. Sundays are almost always spent meal planning, grocery shopping, doing chores around the house that we've neglected during the week (which is a lot) and prepping for the week. Saturdays we are almost never home. We run errands or do our day trips this day so we have Sundays to "recover".
+On the weekends I like Dominick to nap around 9 and then again around 1:00, sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. I like him getting at least 2 naps a day, so if it's not at 9 and 1 I'm okay as long as there are two squeezed in somewhere.
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