How do you manage termtime mornings & schoolrun with a newborn BF baby in tow?

[Buckets]

That's it basically. DS2 is nearly 4wks, DD starts Y1 next week then DS starts pre-school the week after (8.40 start!)
Any tips and hints most welcome indeed.

[Buckets]

OK thanks, think I'll be fine as I don't bathe or dress DS2 in the mornings, don't iron clothes or do more than brush my hair!

DS1 (preschooler) is a terrible walker (sits down after 5mins), will be taking the pushchair for him and slinging the baby until we can try the buggy board.

It's feeding the baby that worries me, I can only do rugby hold with umpteen cushions and lying down feeding so far so there's no multitasking possible there yet. Think I'm going to have to wake him at 6am to feed and settle him back to sleep so I can get everything else sorted out as he just cries if left more than 5mins. What if he doesn't want a feed when I want to feed him? Can you tell I'm still lacking in confidence re BFing? The other 2 were formula fed.

[notsoteenagemum]

The feeding will come don't worry. You can feed in sling, I had a wilkinet and managed quite well you could try the babe in the sling round the house instead of trying to settle him back down most babes like it. And you need to differentiate between the things you want to do and the things which need doing.
Took me a while to learn this but it was a break through when I did stopped me feeling bogged down. When do yours start back?

[ByTheSea]

I don't know how I managed but it just wasn't a problem. (I had two DSs at primary and one DD at nursery 3 days a week when DD2 was born). DD2 has always been a really easy laid-back child and just went with the flow. I put DD1 on a buggy board attached to the pram.

When DD1 was born and I had DSs at nursery a few days a week, I would push the DSs in a pushchair and DD1 was happy to be in the sling and never fussed.

[SoupDragon]

I panicked about this before having DD. As it turned out, it just happened and you get on with it. She was always in a sleepsuit and she was rarely fed before we got home. A sling like a coorie is a godsend because when the baby is all tucked up inside, they snooze and aren't so fussed about being fed Right Now.

[cupsoftea]

It was no problem for me - I bf & co-slept so little one not hungry. Just got up, got kids sorted & off we went.

[Piffle]

I bf on demand too and co slept in bedside cot.
But he alwYs howled on school run
Dd is visually impaired and needed lifting so sling for school run was out
Had carseat straight onto pram but he hated the whole shebang
It was forgotten until one day when he was toddling recently (now 17mths) and one mum said
Oh he finally stopped crying then
Cos' he was my 3rd I did not --care- notice really!

[foxytocin]

Get a sling, preferably a stretchy wrap sling. Learn to breastfeed in it. This leaflet shows you how to tie on a tiny baby and then adjust it later if he needs a feed.

[Buckets]

LOL just ordered a Moby wrap!

[ghosty]

DS was at kindergarten when DD was born (in NZ that was 5 mornings a week).
I used to get showered and dressed before DH went to work ... no matter how early that was (sometimes I would get up at 6am if he had to leave very early) so that he could hold the baby and deal with DS (give him breakfast, get him dressed etc) while I was getting ready. This was purely to avoid my turning up at Kindy in my dressing gown and slippers.
Once I was dressed I could handle the rest ... I didn't stress if we were a bit late.