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I WFH but I'm afraid I'm no help! I really think I need to do something to get out of the slump I find myself in with it sometimes. I have a bad habit of working wherever I happen to be and I think making a point of having a "work only" zone (a pretty one!) needs to happen. And maybe changing out of pjs...

I WFH all day one day a week. My most productive days are when I take a shower first thing in the morning and write out my day's to do list. Also when I have 3 or more conference calls or webinars in a day I spend the rest of my time better.

I WFH and have been for the past 3 years or so. Here's my evolution:

--at first, I would wake up at 7, shower, get dressed in normal work clothes/do my hair/put on make up, the works
--slowly, I would dress up less and less, and would occasionally just wear sweats and then a nice blouse (I work in the teleconferencing business, so all of my meetings are over video)
--when I was pregnant with C, taking naps during my lunch breaks were the best part of my day
--after having C, working from home was still manageable because I used our spare bedroom as an office/guest room, so I could shut the door if I needed privacy (my mom comes everyday to watch her)
--now, after having H, WFH is SO HARD. I lost my office (now H's nursery) so I work in our dining room with little privacy.

I usually don't shower until lunch, I never leave the house during the week (I eat lunch with C, then nurse H, then put them down for naps), and I almost never wear normal work clothes... I definitely need to mix things up, because I feel like my productivity has dropped, too! Our local office closed, so I always WFH and never go anywhere to work.

I started working from home after returning from maternity leave (LO is 5 months old). My mom or MIL watches him 3 days a week here and I go into the office 1 day a week (I WFH with him the other day -- technically my "day off"). I have my own "office" set up in the guest room. But I rarely take a shower or get out of sweats I may start trying to work from a coffee shop occasionally (especially if MIL is watching him here). DH also works from home sometimes so it can get really crowded here with 2 people WFH, one caregiver, one infant and dogs.