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Any other EBF/pumping moms still find time to work out? How do you manage the time? Right now I'm commuting about an hour each way, so when I get home it's a juggle of nursing the 6 month old baby, dinner for myself and 2yo, prepping food for the next day, bath and bed. I'm still carrying all this baby weight and would love to fit in more me time, but when??

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I usually only get one workout in per week unfortunately - I have a standing Saturday morning gym date with a friend and my husband stays home with my now 2.5 year old. We’ve been doing this since our babes were 4 months old, though, and they were both EBF until 6 months old.

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Do you have a trusted friend of family members to watch your kids? I go at night 8-10 ish and have a friend watch my kid while i weight train . I go Monday’s,Wednesday & Friday.

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I’ve been battling the baby wt too, first time cane off without trying ! Not so lucky this time. We have twin 3 yr olds and a 4 month old. We got a rowing machine and put it I. The garage. It takes me 2 hrs to get pick up our kids after work and get home. Then I cook and we eat then I nurse and while baby is in food coma the kids watch a 30 min tv show with daddy and I go row. You could maybe pump on your hour drive and let daddy feed baby a bottle and work out right when you get home? And then I’ll do little stretches crunches type stuff while I’m on the floor playing with the kids. We just started the rowing this wk has worked out well so far we will see if I can keep it up

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I have a 3 hour round-trip commute. I either go work out during my lunch hour or take a class in the evening a couple times a week or in the morning on the weekend. My husband watches our one year old when I go to class.

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Yes! I have the same concern!! I also have an hour commute. I used to run at lunch and naive pre-baby me thought I’d be able to keep that up, but I feel like it would be too much time away from my work day when I’m already pumping multiple times each day. I’m back in two weeks, I’ll let you know if I figure out any good tips!

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My gym has a daycare so I definitely use it on the weekends. I'm only working part time right now so I'm able to get in a workout every day but when I go back full time I probably will only be able to workout on the weekends. 
Maybe when you do tummy time or play with baby, do mommy and baby workouts? Or try to find a quick 10 minute workout to do daily. You don't need to do a 30 minute or hour workout to get fit.

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