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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with other posters that you will need to change your perspective a bit. Those first few months/years are tough and it's mostly survival mode. things like working out tend to take a backseat unless you're willing to wake up at 4:30am (not kidding.)

If your hours are not flexible, you need to find a daycare (and possibly pay a premium) for daycares with longer hours. Even so, we found that we still wanted to spend time with our babies so just because a daycare had great hours didn't mean we wanted to max them out for things like working out

Try to divide responsibilities early on for some semblance of balance. My kids were always early risers waking between 6-6:30am every day. Our routine looks like this:
Husband wakes up at 5 or 5:30am, showers and prepares breakfast for the kids while getting ready for work. 
I wake up around 6 and get myself dressed/face on (I work from home). 
Husband is out the door before 7 and I feed the kids, get them dressed and out the door for daycare by 8 or 8:30
I work until 6, husband leaves his job at 5 for pick up.

If we work out, it's usually during our lunch break or on the weekends during nap time[/quote]

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