Our daily routine

Another question I (Christine) get often as well is what my day is like with Samuel. It varies each day, but there is a pattern or routine starting to emerge.
Short version:
8hrs of breastfeeding
12 hrs of Sam sleeping day and night (Mom usually sleeps 5 hrs then 2 hrs at night and maybe a 2 hr daytime nap)
4 hrs of Sam awake in various states of alertness

Long version:
For starters, it takes about an hour to feed and change him and during the day he goes 1 - 3 hours between feedings and at night he goes 4 - 5 hours on average (he's slept 6 hours in a row a few times though, we like that). Usually his first morning feeding is anywhere from 6am to 7:30am. I feed him, change him, pump some breastmilk (storage for Dave to bottlefeed him occasionally), eat breakfast and get dressed, brush teeth, etc. Often after that it's time for the next feeding. Some days I'm super tired and he's gone back to sleep so I shorten my routine and sleep until the next feeding. Some days he's fussy and I need to walk and bounce with him or put him in the bouncy seat to get him back to sleep. Those kinds of days I often do household chores while I watch and make sure he's sleeping well. The next feeding is usually 9:00am or so and after that feeding I might make my trip to the grocery store or run other errands or go for a walk or meet up with people. This is also my time to grab lunch towards the end of his late morning nap. Then usually he feeds around 1pm and I might try to nap after that, though he generally feeds again around 3:30pm or 4pm. Often I have to wear him in the sling to get him to sleep in the afternoons though I can generally transfer him to the bouncy seat after carrying him for a half hour or so. After that I try to start making dinner...dinner preparation is usually done in segments, with feeding or changing or consoling him to sleep in between. Oh, and I might try to take a shower in that time as well. Then there's a competition between his 6pm feeding, dinner getting finalized and Dave coming home - it turns out differently each night. He sleeps lightly after that or not at all and eats again around 8pm. We are starting to put him in his crib for the night at 9pm (if he complies) and we go to bed by 10pm. Other nights he sleeps upstairs when we're awake and there's an 11pm or 12pm feeding and then we all sleep downstairs. If we're lucky, he sleeps from 12pm to 6am, but sometimes he skips the 12pm feeding and adds a 2am feeding (I don't like those nights). That's pretty much the daily routine. I find that it works best if I limit myself to one activity out of the house and make time for one nap. If I don't, I'm very tired and it's hard to catch up on sleep around here.

-Christine