Getting three under 5s up and out in the morning on your own

[PetitFilou1]

Please give me your tips.....

Dh gets up and leaves at 7am. And on Tuesdays it is 6am. I have ds1 to get to school (4 1/2), dd to get to nursery (3) and ds2 who is 5 weeks old who just has to drag along. This morning was hell and it is doing my head in.

just make sure it's the baby in his pjs at the school gate and not you, or you may find yourself the subject of a thread on MN

After DD, it took me about four months to get to the stage where all three of us were washed and dressed before leaving the house. It was either me or DD that got that honour and she regularly came to parent reader morning in her babygro!

I have a feeling I need to step up the organisation a bit after DS2 is born.

Mercy 'how long does he normally sleep after his 5.30 feed?' - how long is a piece of string? he could not wake up until I wake him or he could wake up because one of the others has woken him up or he's done a poo etc etc etc

Bramshott tbh I can't be arsed with getting dressed to go out, then undressed to have a shower then dressed again - I'd never get anything done in the house either - but I take your point (and we don't have a shower atm unfortunately and baths are much slower)

I will re read this later tonight and see if I can piece together something that works...

Not morning but have similar situation with my dc since the eldest started nursery. Here's suggestion based on what I do. Get youngest dressed and ready and fed if required and put him in his coat in buggy ready to go. Get the girls up and washed and dressed, then have breakfast and set off. Gradually make ds feeds later, by 5 mins each day, so that eventually, you can feed him an hour later say 6.30, then if dh is around you can have your bath before he leaves the house. I dont know if the feeding system will work as havent tried it but it might and then his next feed wouldnt be due till you got home.

Hi PF

How's the mornings going now? This is my usual morning, things move about depending if Kurt wakes up before 8am.

I set my alarm for 6.45 and either get myself dressed or feed and change baby if nec. 7am I get the big kids up and aim for breakfast to be eaten by 7.30. I aim to have both big kids dressed by 8am then they can watch tv downstairs. DS1 has Aspergers and I basically have to dress him in front of the tv but DD dresses herself very well. Give the baby a quick feed and nappy change if nec or if there's time sort out last minute things. Out the door at 8.25 for 8.40 pre-school start.

Helps if you don't do too much ironing in general, gives you more time at night to do bookbags/lunchboxes etc.

This is my morning routine - I have four DCs age, 5, 3.5, 22months and 8 weeks and DH leaves for work at 6:45.
I get up at 6:30 and wash, bf baby and change her nappy and then she goes in cot. I get dressed whilst making loud getting up noises to wake DCs. They all get up, clean teeth, dress and then we troop downstairs. They all sit at table for breakfast and hair brushing. I make lunches and hang on pushchair with other bags needed for school. Then 22m old is strapped in pushchair so he can't run away/get undressed/bite sisters etc. Two oldest put their own coats on while i sort baby, find keys and put own coat on. We leave (hopefully) at 8:30 for school. I try to do all the upstairs things before coming down otherwise i'm running up and down or the dcs get lost in dreamworld if I send them up to do/fetch something.
It gets easier with practice - although I'm dreading the gloves/scarves and hat phase which is nearly upon us!