What does your evening routine look like when…

both of you work full-time jobs?

I hear so many people saying they put their baby down at like 7:30 or 8:00 (once they’re sleeping through the night).

Our baby is 7 months and thankfully has been sleeping through the night since like 2.5 months.

Since week 14, we have both been back at work full-time. By the time I get off work, pick the baby up from daycare, and get back home it’s already almost 6:00.

It would literally KILL me if we had to put him to bed after him only being home for an hour and a half after not seeing him all day! (I do feed him in the mornings and see him for like 30 mins, but then hubby does everything else to get him ready and drops him off since he goes into work later than me).

Here is how our evenings go:

I play with him from 6:00-6:30. Feed him a bottle and change him. Hubby gets home around 7 most nights so I hand him off to him while I cook dinner.

We eat, try to feed baby some purées, clean up. Then we sit on the couch to watch 30-60 mins of TV. I usually hold the baby while halfway watching and halfway playing with him. Feed him his last bottle at 9:30 while we’re still on the couch and baby passes out in my arms.

Around 10 hubby makes bottles for the next day, we change baby and put him in his jammies, and we all go upstairs to bed. It’s always 11 before we get into bed after we take meds, brush teeth, etc. but baby knocks back out immediately after we put him down.

So baby sleeps from around 10:45 to 7:00 every day and gets several naps throughout the day at daycare.

Anyway… is this an insane routine? We’ve been doing it for months and it seems to work good for us, other than us wanting to be in bed before 11, but still having a little unwinding time.