Level 0 to where?

So I made a list of what I want to study on Sep 13 and a list of chores and other things I want to try earlier.

Here are my updates from today : 25th. 

I know there's a lot of things I want to do - mommy stuff, study stuff, home maker stuff, fun stuff, fin stuff.
And I also know there's only limited energy and learning curves with everything.
So here's a Level plan starting from level 0 promoting to wherever my body allows me to go. I also want to shortlist the varied interests so I can weed out things if at all I do get the time/energy to do things.
I'll be okay if level 0 is all I can do, but having dreams and references are always good. 

Level 0 - before baby arrives
- Work - scripts / PF suspensions / eComm / hiring.
- hospital bag / Health / checkups
- Konmari
- Shopping
- Letters / gifts
- Nanny / day care short list / food
- h1b / S
- maternity leave

Level 0.5 - Baby Red Tape
SSN / birth certificate / passport / OCI / CA

Level 1 - Baby, me 
Brush / Bathe / Water / Breakfast / Meds / civil clothes
Nutrition plan / Lunch/ Dinner / Prep
Breast feed / pump / diaper change
Sleep
Clothes change / wipe / ambience
Stroll

Level 2 (AJ / help)
Freeze and warm
Baby bath
Trash / Dishes
Laundry / Fold clothes
Counters / floors / rest room
Scooter - bath / walk / food 
Grocery 

D wedding
Sustainable habits 
Plants 

Level 3 (Health / Room / Transition )
Yoga 
Mindfulness

Bonding Leave 
Negotiate lease extension - rent
Plan parents' visit
Day care 

Level 4 (Ananya - not a mom for few hours)
Driving class - half hour
Finance class - half hour
Leet code - 1 hour (data camp later?)
1 course - 1 hour (Udacity course first / AJ help on algo / Coursera text course)
1 content video - 1 hour

Level 4.5 (fun?)
learning how to learn / masterclass / athlete mindset
Sing / Knit / Post - 1 hour
lullaby
wear Indian
Instrument

Level 5 (Transition out)
Back to work / learning
Transition plan - food
Nanny
Parents Visit

Level 6 (Annie 2.0?)
Weight loss
Happy clothes
Friends 
Meetups
Skincare help
Makeup tutorial

24 hours in a day

I need estimated interrupted sleep of 10 hours whenever baby allows me. 
The interrupted time would go feeding/ changing.
A big chunk of leftover time will also probably go towards feeding / changing unless I get the hang of pumping but would still need to feed the pumped milk.
Few hours for my bathing and eating. It sounds like both AJ and I might have to be involved simultaneously - based on what others are saying.

Ideally it would be great if we had separate chunks of time where we could exclusively manage.

For ex, 
I should take care of baby / sleep for 16 hours - the nights and his work time. And use the other 8 hours to prioritize 1 hour nutrition/ cook / clean, 1 hour of exercise / walk, .5 - bathe, 1 hour of study, half hour of finance, half hour of meditation/ nothing, .5 driving, .5 of fun. nap? .5 of leet code? and empty time. 
And AJ does 8 hours of work like he does now, in between when he finds some time to cook / take care of Scooter. And after work he takes on the baby for 8 and sleeps in the other room to catch up on sleep for 8.

Weekends we do some red tape, maybe a quick trip. Rat does grocery, Scooter bath. laundry. couple time.
AJ coach. finances.

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