To ask how much longer it takes to get ready in the morning with a young child?

I have to set off for work at around 8.25am so we get up at around 7.05 and have plenty of time to spare before we leave.

It's no more stuff than you'd do for yourself to get up and out. It's just you do it for you and you also do it for someone else who is small and slippery and has many limbs and wants to wrestle, wants to play, wants to wear the green sock and the blue sock, wants the trousers from yesterday or the ones that aren't dry yet, someone who wants to do everything themselves but has neither patience or coordination to succeed and who doesn't understand why when they see you can....it's fun.

I can't shower with a toddler to look after and I've never managed to reliably get up earlier than any of mine, either because they wake at the crack of dawn or vary their waking times considerably day to day. That means always showering once they're all sleeping in the evening. Sometimes that's not until 10pm or later, but no matter when - as soon as they're asleep, I get straight in the shower. Then I pack bags for the following day/make lunches as needed, and while getting them ready for bed I've usually laid out clothes for the morning.

I get myself dressed and ready while they're eating breakfast (and I'm downing a coffee - I eat breakfast at my desk later) then get them ready, pack last things in bags and go. It still takes an absolute minimum of an hour even with lots of things done the night before - more often an hour and a half. You have to factor in time for them not necessarily wanting to eat breakfast as soon as they wake, not wanting to get dressed, fighting and screaming and hitting when you try to brush their teeth, arguing about putting shoes on, pooing (or after potty training, announcing they need one) as you've just put their shoes on or strapped them into the car seat...

We have a 3 year old and a 4 week old. We all get up at 6am and take
it in turns to shower/hair/make up: get dressed. We all have breakfast
together at 7.30am and have some time for laundry/housework
before we leave at 8am (I usually put a wash in at 6am to be out
out just before we leave). So 2 hours
for all of us to get washed and dressed and presentable and fed and for the house to be in order before we leave.

Depends what we're up to that day!

If it's a nothing much to do day, it takes about an 1.5hr to get me, toddler and preschooler up and still remain friends throughout. Sometimes more, sometimes less. We might read 10 books while we get dressed we might build a puzzle we might change outfit 3 times (toddler!) we might take time to make porridge or eggs for breakfast or we might have cereal. How long's a piece of string.

If it's a day we've got to be somewhere prompt and early, I shower in the evening before, then I get up first and after that get the kids ready - all in it takes 45mins (including breakfast). Quickest I've done it without breakfast is 22mins from beds to out the door 💪 (with a yoghurt pouch and banana each for the journey)!

If we add DH into the mix then add an additional 1.5hrs ("I've just got to do this really important thing that has to be done right now and can't possibly wait....clean the bins, have a poo, scoop up the garden leaves, spend half hr scrolling etc etc...")

Kids are 4 and 2 with scraggly hair that definitely needs taming before we go anywhere!

I'd say an hour for me and two DC but neither I nor the 2 year old have breakfast (he has breakfast at nursery) and I normally shower the night before. 4 year old is the hardest one to get moving at anything other than a glacial pace. It seems no matter how early he gets up we are usually still running late because of him.

This is all so alien to me, the amount of stuff you have to do if you have a kid, it sounds exhausting!
I'm childfree and am ready in 1 minute. (WFH and don't eat breakfast, shower the night before)

This is what we would do as well (except everything shifted an hour earlier)

Mine are grown up now but I have no recollection of ever having to wake up a child younger than 13.

Memories are a bit dimmed now but when dd was a baby I had to take ds to nursery for 9. I don't remember the mornings being very challenging and don't remember ever being late. We all left the house clean, fed and dressed. It was always baths at bedtime and I had a family room off the kitchen with a TV and a lot got done there. Toothbrushes and my make-up in the utility, they got dressed around the TV to the strains of Big Cook Little Cook and Auntie Mabel.

I think it depends on what stage the child is at to be honest. I started showering at night and setting everything out for both of us the night before so I'd have spent about 30 minutes getting myself ready and then ds took 20 minutes to get a quick nappy change, dressed and a nurse before we were off to nursery. If I had to give him breakfast before nursery then that added another 30 minutes. He's currently potty training and sometimes that means a few trips to the toilet which adds on some time. But I think you just get to know your child and then when the time comes you have an idea of how long things will take you. Plus the very early days especially if feeding on demand it can feel near impossible to leave the house some days. I also have a little mini makeup kit in my bag and keep stuff for my breakfast at work and I do heatless curls overnight so if I'm really under pressure I can be ready to leave the house myself in 10 mins if ds needs more from me. Just finish the rest at work.

I can get both my primary school boys ready within the hour if that helps

My nursery aged children always ate breakfast at nursery so I literally woke them once I was ready, got them dressed and then straight into the car. I also don't eat breakfast and bathe at night so could get us all out in 30 mins.

Now they are at school and have breakfast at home we need 50, but they can dress themselves now.

I shower the night before. Saves a lot of time!

At work!

I get up at 6:50, make coffee, shower while it brews, put toast on. DS (3) woken at 7:20 if he’s not awake before. One episode of Paw Patrol, dressed straight after, teeth and hair brushed. Out of the flat precisely at 7:54, nursery drop off at 8:30. It’s a 25 min walk/scoot but this allows for the stopping to look at a scraggy pigeon or what biscuits are in the baker’s window today and the answering of 234 questions about what became of the dinosaurs. Also gives a five minute buffer before we leave incase I can’t find where I put my phone down/DS suddenly decides he wants to wear a different pair of shoes.

its all about getting the routine down really. But anything I can prepare the night before I do- clothes, shoes, bag, coffee pot and kettle ready to go.

If it’s all a big rush I do my make up on the train, I don’t prioritise that before I go unless I have 3-4 minutes spare. I’ve reconciled myself to nothing more than a quick blast with the hairdryer.

We only have to do this 3x a week at the moment which is nice, but it’s good practice for school.

I have an 18 month old, this morning was approx:
7:30am baby wakes up, bring her to my bed for cuddles / books.
8:00am I shower and DH gets baby ready starts giving her breakfast.
8:30am I take over and DH gets ready.
8:40 leave for nursery
9:00 back home to log on work

Totally depends on how much you have to do in the morning. I’m very basic, shower, dressed, whack hair back wet and go and that’s working or not. I don’t bother with make up etc so that saves me a lot of time. I get up and straight in the shower at 6:45, have 3 kids 9,5 and 1. They all get up about 7 and we are ready for the school run by 8:15. I leave plenty of time for tantrums regarding sun cream, hats, shoes etc and we’ve never been late yet!

Anywhere between 30 minutes and 3 days!

OMG. 'I just need the sellotape...' Why?????

Before dc I would take ages getting ready. After dc I'd get up before them, about 5:45, get me showered dressed, get my bag together, get them up and be ready to go by 8. Some mornings we had to be out by 7:10 so I'd get up a little bit earlier and never wash my hair those mornings.

Getting everything ready the night before was key. Not just getting clothes and bags sorted but putting out bowls and spoons for breakfast, things like that.

Under one is easy peasy, they stay where you put them! The problem happens when they hit about 3-4 and they suddenly have to "just" do everything that pops into their head first before they can possibly do anything so unimportant as get dressed or eat food. Then all your dreams of earth-motherhood go out the window as you're screaming "it's ten to nine!!!!" up the stairs, Victoria Wood style.

Or so I've heard. From a friend. 😅

It take me an hour from waking to leaving the house, inc toddler. Neither of us eat at home though.

I will concede I’m currently allowing ten minutes of TV to allow me to get them dressed and teeth brushed without too much wrestling.

Otherwise it would probably take two hours….

My DD is 1, I try get up before her but doesn’t really make a difference either way, takes me 30 minutes to get myself ready and then around 39 minutes to give her breakfast and get her ready, I usually try to prep baby bad the night before but really only takes 10 minutes if I don’t. If she’s awake she’ll go in the play pen whilst I get ready when she was younger her bouncer chair/moses basket/cot she’s always been quiet happy just rolling around playing whilst I get ready