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First question! How did you work from home with your child? I have a sitter come to the house everyday because I work from home. There is no way I could get anything accomplished otherwise. Secondly, would your work be willing to continue allowing you to work from home? I totally get the anxiety feelings of upcoming change. Fortunately schools and day cares have proven to be really low transmitters of COVID. My son has been in preschool since May 2020 and so far so good ☺️ You’re probably over-worrying, but that’s what us moms do! 😅
Starting Daycare
We are very fortunate that I was able to work from home during this pandemic and kept our son home with me. But now, as we prepare to be going back into the office I’m so scared for him to start daycare 😭 Yes, because of COVID. But mainly because he’s only gone to a sitter 5 weeks of his life and he obviously had no idea what was going on. We’ve taken COVID very seriously and barely see family other than FaceTime, especially since around November (fiance had a COVID scare through work, thanksgiving spike, fiancé’s grandparents caught it, his parents being a close contact, the death of his grandfather from COVID, Christmas, post Christmas spike etc). So our son truly is hesitant and a bit scared around people and in new environments. And for me, the thing I’m most anxious about is that he knows when he’s scared 😭 I don’t at all regret any steps we’ve taken to keep him safe to the best of our ability and knowledge, but man. I did not feel this way dropping him off at the sitter when he was an infant and it would have been SO much easier if he had just been able to go to the sitter and this not be an abnormal situation😭
Thankfully we’re able to do a few mornings at the daycare I really wanted and slowly transition him (and me) to not being around each other 24/7. I keep telling myself I know it’ll be good for him and I think he’ll do well. But holy don’t I have anxiety about it 🙈
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Em
That’s one reason working from home is amazing - even if you’re working you still get to see your kids! Hoping your work can extend your work-from-home set up to push of day care for the time being. But if not it will all work out ☺️
Sh
Haha! I get that question a lot. Truthfully some days are hell and not all that productive. But for the most part we had a pretty good routine down. It also helps I’m not really on my phone much and my job is pretty relaxed, so I can have a not very productive day and it not be the end of the world. Also, he crashed most of my conference calls 🤷🏼♀️😂 I always would apologize for it but thankfully it’s a pretty family friendly company and they were all used to their own kids interrupting as well so they were fine just seeing him wave and sitting with me. And we just finished our second morning of daycare today. He’s literally blown everyone away. He’s done AMAZING! Never cried once. I stayed for about an hour and a half? Maybe 2 hours the first day to ease him into it and once he was smiling and kind of forgetting to look for me I left. I’m soooooo thankful he’s had fun. Today he looked like he didn’t want to leave 🤷🏼♀️😂
Oh starting daycare is tough. Particularly during covid. We got a briefing on our childcare’s safety controls beforehand to understand how well they would monitor kids, cleaning etc. I felt guilty for about a month - which is how long it took her to adjust. Now she waves goodbye and doesn’t look back!The advice I was given, and I agree with it, is don’t try to ease the transition because it doesn’t work very well. Just drop the child off and walk away. At the start, our childcare would send us photos of our daughter about 10 min after drop off and she’d be fine. That helped me a lot. Not sure if your childcare would be so kind and willing to do the same.I wish you all the best! It’s normal to feel the way you are.
Sh
In normal times I may try that approach. But he’s truly been only around his dad and I. So I just wouldn’t feel comfortable dropping him off with how scared he gets around people 🙈
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