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Returning to work full time??
Hi Ladies!
Congratulations on all of your babies. I am 30wks PG and am after some advice.
I have just been chatting with my husband about what we will do when my maternity leave is up and he is adament that I will return to work full time. I work 12 hour shifts days and nights so I argued that I would like to reduce my hours by working 10hours instead which will mean that I will finish a night shift at 5am so can hopefully get home for a couple of hours kip before he goes to work and I have to look after the baby all day before going back out to work that night. It also means that I would finish at 5pm on the day shifts instad of 7pm. I think this is important as it means I can spend a couple of hours with our baby before she goes to bed.
Are any of you going back to working full time and feel you will be missing out on some of your babies development? I was just hoping for some advice and stories of how you cpoe working full time with a baby. Hope you dont mind me crashing from Pg.
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Congratulations on all of your babies. I am 30wks PG and am after some advice.
I have just been chatting with my husband about what we will do when my maternity leave is up and he is adament that I will return to work full time. I work 12 hour shifts days and nights so I argued that I would like to reduce my hours by working 10hours instead which will mean that I will finish a night shift at 5am so can hopefully get home for a couple of hours kip before he goes to work and I have to look after the baby all day before going back out to work that night. It also means that I would finish at 5pm on the day shifts instad of 7pm. I think this is important as it means I can spend a couple of hours with our baby before she goes to bed.
Are any of you going back to working full time and feel you will be missing out on some of your babies development? I was just hoping for some advice and stories of how you cpoe working full time with a baby. Hope you dont mind me crashing from Pg.
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Well congratualtions first of all! Being pregnant is great-have to say some of us on here have said how much we miss it! Am in the process of deciding what I'm doing and it is a really hard one.
Could you go back part time for a bit then work up to full time maybe? Doesn't have to be one or the other. Hope you get sorted and whatever you decide works for you and your lo.x
I think if you are going to have to look after your baby during the day you need to finish earlier than 7am otherwise you'll have no energy to cope with the demands of a little baby. You need to have enough sleep yourself as I don't mean to sound patronising but they really are hard work and I know I couldn't look after Poppy all day with only 4 hours sleep a night.
If you are going to be expected to care for lo and work 12 hour nights the best bet would be to get someone to care for your baby for a few hours in the morning so that you can get some sleep. Childminders are very flexible and it needn't be that expensive for a couple of hours a day.
I don't really feel like I missed out on Poppys development at all and if anything I think she has come on massively as she is cared for by a professional woman who also cares for a few other children and she is constantly stimulated and 'educated' - at 14 months old she now speaks better than 2 of my friends children who are 6 months older than her.
Spending time at work away from her just makes me appreciate the time we do have together even more.
Having said all that, I am currently not working as I was made redundant but am looking for another full time job!
Hope that helps!!
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