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Why is it that I always find that I am struggling to manage my nightly schedule. Is anything off? I always find that I am rushing.

-5:45 cook dinner
-6:40 Eat dinner
-7:00 Feed baby solids
-7:20 Bath time
-7:35 Get ready for bed (change clothes, change diaper, lotion)
-7:45 Make bed/crib
-7:50 Brush baby teeth
-7:55 Feed baby bottle
- 8:15 Baby finished bottle
-8:20 Baby bedtime
- 8:20 Clean bottles and dishes
-9:00 Shower

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I'll preface this by saying we haven't been big on a strict routine for my daughter. However now that we're expecting baby #2 we are trying to get into some sort of routine/rhythm. I find it's helpful to just have buffer time between things. If bath time takes 15 mins, I'll give it 20min. Because collecting baby toys, waiting for the water to warm up, getting the towel/toys, and putting things away - these all take time too. Also whatever can be prepped earlier in the day during a nap or some free time helps. Like have all the bath stuff ready to go before it's bath time. Have the bed/crib made and ready for sleep ahead of time. There's also things I would do alongside my daughter when she was a baby. Main one being eating - if I'm eating, I'm feeding baby at the same time. It's much easier and quicker than it being 2 separate things. Of course there's exceptions, but I still do this (my daughter is 3) and it makes all meals so much easier for me.

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Don't know how the rest of your day looks like, but I sometimes do dishes during the next day when baby is with me
Also I'm not sure if that's an example but neither me or the baby shower/bath each day
But still we have about the same dinner and bedtime, so I guess it's really just the dishes that pops out for me

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Can I ask why eat dinner and feed baby solids are different times?

Our schedule is more like:
5:15 cook dinner
5:45/6 everyone eat
6:30 play, sometimes we can clean up while we do this
7:30 start bath/bedtime routine (bath, brush teeth, pjs, book, milk) also sometimes I’ll tidy up while my husband does bath and I’ll join for the other parts
8:30 asleep
8:45 can tidy the house if needed, read a book, jump on the computer and finish work if needed, watch a tv show together or workout or shower
9:45/10 bed

I like waking up early, like 6ish to shower and/or workout personally. We just fell into a routine without thinking much of it.

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I agree that from the time baby finishes eating to putting them down for bed feels a little rushed. However, we don't keep strict timelines but still have a somewhat routine. We try and eat around 6-630PM. Usually once one of us is done, we go prep our sons bath or bedtime stuff. That way once we wipe him down, it's ready. Depending on the time he will have a few minutes to play or read a book while the other ones cleans up dinner and does the dishes. Once that's done it's bedtime between 745-830PM. We still rock my son to sleep and have usually transferred him by 9PM. From there it's time for us to workout, watch a show together, study, read, work on the computer, etc until we go to bed around 10-1030PM. Are you in a relationship/married? I think the biggest thing I'm seeing missing from your routine is teamwork. Divide and conquer helps tremendously with children!

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Your timing sort of lines up with mine, but yours is pushed back later.
4:30- baby eats solids dinner, right when she’s done I start cooking our dinner. We eat by 5:30-6. Between 6-7 I have an hour to clean up from dinner, load dishwasher etc and relax a little bit. 7pm baby gets bath and bottle and nighttime routine, in bed by 8pm. Then I’m free do to as I please.

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