How do I get out the house in the morning?

[ScaryFairy28]

Without getting up in the middle of the night? Need to leave at 755.
At the moment I'm thinking we'll go to bed in our clothes for the next day!!

I think we need bit more info... who's 'we'? How many children? Ages? Are you sp or is is dp/dh around?

Sorry
Just me and dd aged 8 months

What time does she normally get up? Can you get up without waking her? The key is doing EVERYTHING the night before. If you can wash your hair etc the night before, thats great, but certainly bags packed night before, lay out your outfit and hers, etc. Assume she's going to nursery? Will they give her breakfast or do you have to?

I think many of us worry about this at first.Have faith! Plan as much as possible in advance.You will be able to do it,and gradually you'll get the timing down to a fine art.......

You will get quicker with practice. Just make sure you know where things are the night before to prevent last minute panics.

I think the key really is in the preparation the night before, and then getting in to a routine such that you know the time by which you must be getting coats on / brushing teeth / eating breakfast / getting up etc (ie work backwards).

I have always done all the 'upstairs' stuff first (get washed & dressed) and THEN the 'downstairs' stuff (have breakfast, brush teeth with handy downstairs toothbrush) - saves shepherding people/toddlers about.

For an 8mo, you can send her to nursery/childminder etc without breakfast and without being dressed - they can cover that.

Put her to bed in a vest that can be worn as top of her outfit the next day. - then you can get down to just a nappy change & trousers on for getting dressed. (Long sleeve nice quality vest/popper tops particularly good for this!).

I reckon with a bit of practice you could leave house by 8 by getting up at 6:30, inc hair washing. With ninja tactics, you can probably improve on that!

I leave the house at 8.25 and get up at 7am. I have three DC and two require packed lunch, plus often make DH's lunch!

I look like worzel gummidge though

I can remember feeling exactly like this but trust me, its not so bad as you think!

As everyone says - prep the night before so that you have ready:

• your clothes/shoes/bag (so not looking for keys/purse etc in morning)

-baby's clothes and any bag/food/nappies you need to take to child carer plus the bits you always end up hunting for (hat/gloves etc)

What I do is get up 45 mins before wake up DCS, get self ready (shower etc) then I wake u dcs get them dressed, do hair, give drink of milk then leave house (they have breakfast at nursery)

If you have shower etc at night instead of morning - you buy yourself a lie in!

I get up at 6.15am
REady by 7am
DCs up at 7am
DCS are ready to leave by 7.30am

the key to it is get ready before baby gets up

If I don't have a shower and dry hair can be up at 6.40am

good luck!

I am up at 0630 an leave house at 0755
2 dc (6 and 13 months) plus 1 DH who is about as useful as a chocolate teapot in the am therefore he just gets himself sorted

I've always done breakfast before getting dressed - that way you don't have to get them changed after inevitable spillages !

Same goes for me

It's all quite do-able. The thought is worse than the reality, and like everyone else says: organisation is key.

With dc 1, I was still doing a morning bf, so would set the alarm for around 5.30 and then feed in bed until about 6.30. Then dh would do nappy change, dress the baby (second the idea of leaving the vest on- and keep clothing simple. Mine was still in babygros at first, then we progressed to simple outfits. You don't want fiddle buttons). Meanwhile I would be showering and getting ready, then we'd swap places and dh would get ready. Can't remember when we fitted in breakfast- I think that was on the hoof. Then grab the bag which you've packed for nursery / cm the night before. We were out well before 8 am.

Pre children you can't imagine doing it. Then when you have one child you get into a routine but the thought of doing it with two kids seems impossible. Then you have two and learn a new routine... It will be fine, but do establish a routine early on.

Right I'm thinking
630 alarm 15min bf she's a quick feeder!
645-7 getting dressed she'll lie happily on the bed and watch me then change her.
7 down stairs for breakfast we're BLW so she takes ages so I'll eat mine and then do hair and make up and put lunches in bags
730 teeth and wash her face
740 ten minutes spare
750 jackets on
755 out the door
8 nursery
810 leave nursery
855 get to work
If we're running really late nursery will do breakfast, but they don't provide it, or i could give her a tube of yoghurt and nursery do snack at 930 which is usually cereal or scrambled eggs or something so bf would even tide her over! Maybe while it's cold I could even get bags and lunches into car the night before!?

Hi, I am wondering this too! Go back to work next week (DD 13 months). Scary isn't it? Not got out of the house before 9am for over a year now :-)

I plan to have lunch and dinner ready the night before bagged up in the fridge(and if necessary I will take breakfast to the CM as well).

I'm not planning on getting up really much before 7am (unless DD wakes earlier - which she rarely does) and need to be out by 7:55am so will be running around madly!

When I worked at the nursery babies arrived in all sorts of states - pyjamas,dirty nappies,sleep heads,unfed etc etc weve seen it all - you wont be the first and theres many others in the same position -Good luck.

Jules what day you back? Have set challenge of getting up at 730 tomorrow and out by 855 for a wee test run!

I did it with 3xdc ages 5,3 and 18m with 2 drop offs. It's chaos for a week when you get started but then we found our groove. I'm on mat leave now with no.4 who is 13 weeks and I have to get 2 to nursery and 1 to school. I actually find it all goes to shit when we don't have a deadline to meet like the weekends - struggle to get us all out by 10.30 when on weekdays were at the nursery by 8.30.

I don't do anything the night before. Just get up, turn on telly and make milk for them all (leave baby snuffling in cot), shower myself and chuck on fleece, get them thru breakfast whilst blow-drying hair in kitchen (hygienic I know), get them all dressed and change a poo bum and then toothbrushes, shoes, coats, helmets and out the door. If you can wake before Dc then it is do much easier tbh but mine don't let me do that.

What lollystix said is so true.
Work is a non negotiable deadline- so you MAKE yourself get in on time. I worked 3 days a week and was out the door by 7.45 am on work days, yet on days off, I'd be the one rolling up late for 9.30 playgroup! It's far easier having routine and structure.

I shout alot. Chop chop, come-on, NOW, etc. I'm grumpy evil mum at times.

Woo hoo ready to leave and not out of bed till 750

And the bloody car is frozen solid
Must look out spare key so I can start car and come back inside!!

Did you boil a kettle this moring? I wouldn't dare do it with freshly boiled water, but defrosted the windows with kettle water this am.

Defrosting car - I've done it with hot(ish) water from the tap too

Yep, routine is the key. Get bag ready the night before. Do lunch so you can just grab it from the fridge. Something quick for breakfast. I know people who give their DC a banana in the car on the way to school/nursery and that works well if you're pushed. The shower is the trickiest thing to fit in so you need to figure out whether that's a night before/get up early job.

Exactly why you factored in your spare minutes.

Beautifully executed.

Mission accomplished.

Is it just you and the baby?
It really is easier with a baby that doesnt move as you can sit her in the bathroom with her toast while you do hair etc
It's when they're 3 and 5 and you have to yell at them every two minute to be quick eating breakfast, to go for a see NOW , to get shoes on, brush teeth etc etc

Yep gumby just me and baby