Back to working 50-60 hours a week 😩

I’m 32 years old and have spent my adult life working on my career and am finally where I want to be. Then I got pregnant and thought it would be easier to get back to my insanely stressful and time consuming job because I make enough to where my husband doesn’t have to work. Something about knowing daddy is with him all the time made me think I wouldn’t mind going back too much for some reason.

I never thought it would be THIS hard. Don’t get me wrong, I was dreading going back to work, but I didn’t anticipate hardly ever seeing my baby awake. Sometimes I get to do his bedtime routine, but not always. Sometimes by the time I get home, I have to go to sleep within the hour to do it all over again the next day.

Anyone else in this boat with me? Any tips? My husband is struggling too because he is doing so much all on his own.

Our baby boy is 14 weeks and the longest stretch of sleep (if we are lucky) is 4 hours. More often than not it’s 1-2 hours. So now I’m even thinking I need to sleep in our guest room because I have to sleep to perform at this job. I will never see my baby. I’m missing everything.

Any advice would be welcomed. It goes without saying that if you want to mom-shame me, please keep it to yourself. I’m proud of my accomplishments, I work hard to support my family, and I know we can make this work. Just seeing if someone does something I haven’t thought of yet or at least can let me know I’m not alone. Thank you!