School Run and Newborn

Any tips for doing the school run with a newborn who is EBF? My husband is going back to work on Monday and has been a huge help, getting our eldest sorted while I change and feed our 5 week old. But how do I manage when he's back at work? He'll have left the house before we need to wake up so won't be able to help at all. Thank you!!

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I guess it will just be timing your last feed? Making sure the kids are ready before the feed?

I will be the same for nursery/playgroup with a 3yo and 2yo when my husband goes back to work (works away)

I think an earlier alarm may be the answer to begin with šŸ™ˆ

Will you be driving to the school? How far is it? Another option could be lumping everyone in the car early, getting there and feeding in the car before taking the kids šŸ¤”

May be more trial and error šŸ˜…šŸ«£

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I have an earlier alarm and I wake, wash and then feed our 2 week old and I do my face and hair while he feeds. He goes back to sleep while I get my eldest dressed and ready (I sling the baby so he stays asleep).
I then do breakfast and feed the baby again while the eldest is eating.
We then all jump in the car for school drop off.
Its not feeding on demand as such but it gets us all out the door and to school x

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My first day doing it alone is tomorrow 😩 I'll be honest I'm just going to be winging it and hoping it all works out šŸ˜‚ I've as much as I can prepared tonight and will just make sure I get my 4 year old ready with plenty of time to spare just in case I need to feed baby etc

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Depending on what you do for breakfast, get hubby to prep/do breakfast before he goes. As for getting dressed if you like to do hair/makeup every day then thats something you need to get up a bit earlier to do, but for the kids, get your eldest to get dressed by themselves as much as possible whilst you get baby ready, make it a game, "who can get their top on first?" Etc or get eldest dressed and have them help with baby. Feed baby before you leave/eat your breakfast then you should be golden!

I get up between 6-6:30 and wake eldest up at 6:45 (6yr old) he gets up, then my middle (2yr old) who i get dressed, sort her hair & teeth etc then my newborn. We do drive to school whilst im still recovering but normally we walk and baby sleeps on the journey so will wake for a feed when i get home xxx

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I change my little ones nappy when my first alarm goes off and honestly I don't bother getting him dressed unless his nappy has leaked he just stays in his sleepsuitšŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
I try to feed bab whilst my eldest eats breakfast, she's 4 so she takes a good 20 minutes per toast slice🫠 then pop him in the pram and usually (fingers crossed) he sleeps on the walk to school, done this now the past week and only had one day he cried on the walkšŸ¤ž

Honestly how smoothly it goes depends more on my eldest using her listening earsšŸ˜… i find the baby isn't the hard part so far

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