OK, I freely admit to being hopeless in the mornings. My colleagues always knew never to schedule a meeting before 10am because I just wasn't on the ball before that!

I'm going back to work in a few weeks and I'm a bit befuddled about how to organise myself and DD. Perhaps because it IS morning as I write this, I just can't get my head around it.

I'm REALLY lucky that we qualify for in-home care because DP is a shiftworker so DD's carer will turn up at 8.30am.

So that should be easy, right?

DD wakes up any time between 6-7am and I generally give her a bottle with me in bed and her breakfast an hour or so later.

DD sleeps in our room so if I set an alarm, it will wake her up. So I could either set the alarm, get up and have a shower and leave DD in her cot or set the alarm, get her a bottle and wait till she drinks it before putting her back in her cot to play before I have a shower. I can't get her to drink her bottle in the cot on her own because it'll just end up out of the cot. I don't normally leave her in her cot to play on her own - I normally have her on the bed with me so I guess I don't know whether she'll object to that or not if I leave her while I go and have a shower. I normally wait until her morning nap before I have a shower but I'm not going to be able to do that any more.

DP will sometimes be here and sometimes not.

I'll try to be organised and have my clothes and hers ready the night before. But I guess I can leave the carer to give her breakfast, that's what she's here for afterall.

What do you do?