Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Quick Question
Why is it that maternity leave ends right as the baby starts getting fun and sleeping really well? I am not happy about going back to work...even if it is only part time and I really wish plan B would kick in. Plan B in our case is the lottery by the way. I will miss my little boy!!! ~Andrea
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I was wondering the exact same thing when I went back to work! Just wait until he is closer to 6 months, then he will be so much more fun and you will want to quit and become a nanny for your own child :) If the pay was a little bit better I would be all over it.
ReplyDeleteOn the plus side about going back to work, it will allow your little one to become more social with his caregiver, regardless of who that might be. We do not have a lot of anxiety issues with Andrew and I firmly believe it is because he has spent half his life with different teachers, children and family members. Every once and a while is gets upset when he is with my mom, but that is usually because I am still in the room and he can hear me but not see me. He is a mamma's boy and I LOVE IT!
My employer has a really good maternity leave policy, so I am able to stay home until Hadley is 6 months old (although half of it is unpaid). I am so thankful because I definitely was not ready to go back at 12 weeks. At 12 weeks I was still having to hold her all the time because her startle reflex had not gone away. But around 4 months she started getting a lot more independent. She is almost 5 months now, and I have to be honest that I am starting to get a little bored being at home. I just really need something that is mine and that occupies my mind for at least a few hours a day. Don't know that I will go back as full-time as I was before, but I am definitely not cut out to be a full-time stay at home mom. It is really hard to leave your baby with someone else--I know it will be for me even though I feel like I am ready to go back to work. But, I really believe that it is healthy for mothers to have goals of their own that do not have anything to do with the baby. And I think it is healthier for the baby too because they learn that they can trust other people and they learn to be more independent and to develop social skills. Oh--and I will probably be posting a similar post to yours when Hadley starts daycare in less than a month. Because even though I truly believe what I just wrote above, I'm sure my emotions will get all tangled up that first day and I will want to be back home with her!
ReplyDelete--Amanda
Think of it as a Godsend that Isaac is sleeping better right when you go back to sleep. It's a lot easier to wake up in the morning if you haven't been up 2-3 times during the night. The night before I went back to work Molly slept 9 hours for the first time and I was so grateful! Now she sleeps 10-12 hours a night!!!
ReplyDeleteYou will miss Isaac. That is truth. But it really is nice to have some outside the home distractions. And you being able to go back part time will be awesome. I took a 'brag book' of pictures of Molly to work and the first day or two I looked at it constantly and showed the album to anything that had eyes. But as the days went by I looked at the album less. I know that sounds sad but it was more that Molly was changing so much that I didn't want to look at pictures from when she was born, I wanted to remember the smile she had given me that morning!
It is hard to leave your baby for the first time but one thing that helped me part of the time was that I was leaving Molly with Greer, who is someone that I already know and trust. You have that with Jessie.
I hope you enjoy your time away from home but know that everyday you get home you will fall head over heels in love again with your son.