FT Working Moms and Bedtime

[Anonymous]

I get my quality time in the morning, he wakes up at 7am and we leave the house at 9am. My daugher goes to bed at 9pm and I get home most days by 8:30pm, but sometimes after her bedtime.

[Anonymous]

After reading these posts, I consider myself very lucky. DD gets up between 630-7am, and I get her ready in the morning and take her to the bus stop at 815am. Then I am off to work. I pick her up at 5 and we are home around 515pm, and DD goes to bed at 8 or 830pm.

[Anonymous]

My kids are in elementary school and none of us are morning people. So, we get up at the last possible minute we can in order to get out the door in time, which means there is like 5 minutes to spare. I try once or twice a week to be the one to take my kids to school because they really love that. In the evenings, I get home between 6:00 and 6:30 and start putting them to bed around 9:30. It's a nice chunk of time considering that we have this entire time together, but I'm with everyone else who says never enough time.

[Anonymous]

I'm definitely the odd ball here:

Home about 5:30
Begin sleep routine around 9, asleep about 10
Up around 9

Still 1 nap for my now 2.5 y.o.

[Anonymous]

Work part-time-my son gets up at 7-I leave at 8am. I try to get home around 2:30-3pm and he goes down at 7:30. The last hours can be difficult because he's tired (one nap a day). My husband is at home, but we have a part-time nanny who is with us from 11-4pm. Both my husband and I try to spend good time with him.

[Anonymous]

I get up at 6:45, son around 7:30 (he loves to sleep). We are out the door by 8:15. I pick him up at daycare at 5:15 and he gets into bed around 8:30.

[Anonymous]

I am home by 4-4:30 most days (teacher). My 11 month old goes to sleep around 7-7:30. My almost 3 year old goes to sleep around 8:30-9. I feel lucky that even with working full time I am able to spend a few hours with them every night, but it is tiring! In the mornings, I leave by 7 am, so I usually see the baby for about 45 minutes, but sometimes my older son is still asleep when I leave and that is hard!

[Anonymous]

Schedule for my 6 month old:

home by 5:30-6:30
DS son in bed by 8:00 after cereal, a little playing, books & bath
up at 1:30 am for a bottle
up at 7:00 am

[Anonymous]

Dh picks our 5mo-old up at 5:30 pm and they play until I get home between 6-6:30. He nurses at 7, then it's jammies/bath/story and in bed by 8:30. If he had an exciting day, he'll fall asleep nursing, so we skip the bath/story and just change him into jammies and put him to bed. He's up like clockwork between 6-6:30am and after a long nursing session (he's usually pretty content to sip and cuddle for 45 min+), we're hustling/bustling out the door by 8:15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

zumbamama wrote:Never seems to be enough time in the day, huh? How much time do you spend together in the morning?

I'm a working Mom and I'm not sure how to take this comment. Are you trying to point out that working Mom's don't spend enough time with their children? I'm not sure you are trying to cause trouble, but it sort of seems like you are.

I'm a working mom and I didn't write the previous post, but really. You're making too much out of it. I think the poster is just curious to know how much time one has to spend time with her little one before leaving for work.

[zumbamama]

I am an oddball too and definitely not a morning person either. I get home usually about 6:30, sometimes 7, dinner ready by 7:30, play and homework until 8:30. Kids in bed by 9. All the other kids on my block are in bed 7:30-8, but I am the only WM.

Thanks 10:42, I was not trying to flame WMs because I am one too. I am hoping one day to be PTWM.

[Anonymous]

We have an 18 month old who is with a nanny at our house. We stagger our leaving/coming home times. I get home at 5:45 pm. My husband gets home at 7:45. I feed her around 6:30 ish. We get her to bed after we eat dinner, around 9 or 9:30. she wakes up at 6:30 am. she only takes a 1 hour nap, doesn't seem to need more sleep. We wish she did!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

zumbamama wrote:Never seems to be enough time in the day, huh? How much time do you spend together in the morning?

I'm a working Mom and I'm not sure how to take this comment. Are you trying to point out that working Mom's don't spend enough time with their children? I'm not sure you are trying to cause trouble, but it sort of seems like you are.

I'm a working mom and I didn't write the previous post, but really. You're making too much out of it. I think the poster is just curious to know how much time one has to spend time with her little one before leaving for work.

Plus, this is one of the very good things about login names (she says as she posts anonymously). ZM is full of good wishes and vibes. I can't imagine her trying to stir up trouble.

[Anonymous]

My little boy (2.8 months) gets up between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m. so I get to spend all the time with him until Nanny takes over at 8:45/9:00. Then I am home by 4:30-5:00 p.m. and he doesn't go to bed until 9:00 p.m. most nights so I get as much "face" time and our wonderful Nanny does; please note that he still sleeps for three hours every day *yahoo for us, I know*. Even then, it's still not enough time. I am with him alone from Friday night until Monday morning so we make up for snuggle, learning, just chillin' time then.

[Anonymous]

Home by 6 or 6:30 pm; go up to bed with my almost 3 YO son at 9:00 or 9:30, read books, asleep by 10:00. DS wakes up at 7:45 a.m.