https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:46:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-218227 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:13:04 +0000 regberadaisy 218227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, had I not had the job scare and asked for the day from home. I'm not sure I would have gotten <i>any</i> work done. M doesn't nap during the day so there's no using nap time to get work done!<br /> We'll see how her schedule shifts while in day care. Maybe she'll start taking naps again. Or maybe it won't take me 1.5-2hrs to get her ready to go in the crib. As of now with the way she is unless I stay up when she wakes up at 4:30 am or work after she sleeps till 1am the morning I would never get work done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-217354 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:20:14 +0000 Mrs. Bee 217354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: sure i can do it, but olive is really easy going. she never cries if i leave the room and lets anyone hold her (even strangers), so it's not hard! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-217000 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:29:54 +0000 skibobrown 217000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had to write and submit a grant application while I was out on maternity leave. Getting that done, which would have realistically taken a few days of full-time work w/out baby, ended up taking me several weeks of working whenever I got a spare moment. The baby took up way too much of my time to be able to work at anything close to my normal capacity. I don't see how I'd be able to truly work from home unless I had someone else around who could keep an eye on the baby.</p> <p>I should also add that my baby doesn't nap for more than 30 minutes at a time, so maybe if you have a good napper you could make it work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216990 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:37:22 +0000 daniellemybelle 216990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Unless I had a very flexible job (which some are lucky to have), I don't see how I could do it. I hope to work from home at some point if I am not a SAHM, but we'd have a nanny. The benefit is that you can be there to breastfeed and to help out as needed, but I think providing full-time childcare would be too challenging and not really fair to the LO. I used to not think that, but as I advance in my career, I just know it's true. </p> <p>@Mrs. Bee: I hope you'll write a blog post eventually about working from home with a nanny at the house. How do you get Olive not to cling to you or cry for you since she knows you are there? How do you and the nanny divide the responsibilities? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216898 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:03:14 +0000 Andrea 216898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it could work when your LO is young and naps a lot (if you are lucky) but at a certain point this will no longer be the case. DD stopped napping at 15 months so I would not be able to do anything during the day and would have to put in all my hours at night. That just wouldn't cut it with my job as I need to<br /> contact people during trading hours so DD goes to daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216883 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:42:18 +0000 Mrs. Stroller 216883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't do it. I went back to work @12w and had to send him to daycare. I've tried keeping him home, but there's just no way. I do compromise by keeping him home until after his morning nap, but for a while that nap only lasted 20 minutes. My daycare is closed for the summer and I hired a nanny part-time to care for him from after am nap to 4pm. She was sick one day and I could not get anything done. It was a total nightmare.</p> <p>A woman in my moms group did it and said it worked ok until her daughter was about 6 months old. She used to work during naps and then after bedtime to put in a full 8-10 hour work day. Her LO is starting daycare soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216872 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:33:07 +0000 Mrs. Bee 216872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I could never do it without childcare. I need to be able to focus on my tasks and I don't like being interrupted. But I know lots of moms who make it work . YOu definitely become effective at maximizing naptime! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216869 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:30:18 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 216869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarbear: Mr. Jacks did it for 2 years. He made it work by shifting his attentions very quickly. Little babies nap 3-4 times per day, so in the early days he was able to get 8 hours of work done during the work day... but as she grew older, she would only nap for a couple hours a day. He would wake up at 6 and work for a couple hours before Lala woke up, then tend to her until lunch, after lunch he'd put her down and work really hard in those 2 hours. In the afternoon, he'd try to set her up with some individual activities or a playdate to get some more work done... and then finally he'd work some more when I got home from work if he needed to (for deadlines etc.)</p> <p>But he found that he became incredibly efficient and frequently finished 8 hours of work in 5-6 hours. His productivity actually went UP after he transitioned to WAH! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216840 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:03:35 +0000 GrapeCrush 216840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LemonLong: @autumnlove: thankfully my boss isn't requiring me to find other daycare. they know that i will have DS with me the whole time. they said as long as i meet my goal for the day they don't care.</p> <p>@regberadaisy: you should definitely ask again, it doesn't hurt. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that we have another winter like we did this past winter!! it was so nice not worrying about walking with a big ol baby bump and slipping on ice/traipsing through the snow, but it will be even better not to have to drag a baby through it this year :o) *fingers crossed* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216819 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:53:25 +0000 autumnlove 216819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work from home 3 days a week and commute (100 miles round trip) 2 times a week. My work also requires proof of childcare so LO goes to daycare full time. I don't save on daycare costs but I save time and gas money which is priceless!!! The arrangement is working really well and my boss said we can discuss working 4 days or FT from home at the end of the year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216741 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:36:26 +0000 regberadaisy 216741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so jealous!!! I really wanted to work from home at least one day a week. Unfortunately with a small job scare towards the end of my leave I opted not to ask.</p> <p>I think it depends on the kind of job you have. My job would have been do-able at home. As long as I put the hours in my boss is fine.</p> <p>I might still ask in another month or two after things die down a bit.<br /> Maybe before winter hits! :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216732 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:32:38 +0000 LemonLong 216732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm still waiting for my LO to arrive, but I do WFM full time. My company's policy is that I need to have other care for my LO during working hours. I imagine it would be difficult to give my full attention to my job if my baby needed something. We're looking into hiring a nanny or doing daycare during my working hours. Probably daycare since a baby crying in the background during conference calls might come off as unprofessional. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wahms-is-it-hard#post-216717 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:25:57 +0000 GrapeCrush 216717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In 2 weeks I have to go back to work... :( I'm not too happy about it, but I have to work. Well the only thing that is making it a little more bearable is that 3 days a week I'll be able to work from home. DS will be just about to turn 12 weeks when I go back. Whenever I tell people I am going to work from home, they give me this look like I'm crazy and ask me how that's gonna work... So now I'm freaking out that I'll either neglect work or DS and end up having to put him in daycare and go back to working in the office...which I absolutely don't want. </p> <p>Is it really hard to work at home and care for a LO? </p>