My LO has been sick and it's almost impossible to get anything done from home. Just curious for those that work at home, what's your childcare situation?
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FT Daycare but they will only go 3x a week this month because DH has some days off during the week.
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Before c started daycare, I had a sitter come to my house two days a week. It was the right amount of time I needed to get everything done and focus; Once she was on a consiatant nap schedule I could count on a few hours of uninterrupted work the other three days.
Now she's in preschool & I work while she's in class and during her afternoon nap. This summer we will have an in-home caregiver again, and still for the fall once baby gets here.
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My LO isn't here yet, but I already have daycare booked. My boss approved my doing daycare 3 days/week and keeping her at home the other 2 days on a trial basis. It's my thought/hope that I can be super productive days she is at daycare and during naps/after my dh gets home the other two days that I won't drop productivity (my job is a bit of hurry up and wait anyways). But we'll see. I assume that I'll probably only have until she gets somewhat mobile before I need to go up to daycare full time because I just won't be able to get enough done when she is home.
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My sister is our part-time nanny and is here about 20-25 hours a week. My mom comes twice a week during the evenings to help out and my MIL comes for the day twice a month. I also have another sitter that comes once a week for a few hours.
Technically I'm supposed to be available during company core hours (9-4), but luckily they've been pretty flexible with me.
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My mom comes over, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day... it's great free childcare, my mom gets to build a fantastic relationship with LO (I never met my grandparents), and I get to focus on work but steal some kisses here and there, and also eat lunch with her and put her down for a nap.
Downside is, my mom is here 5 days a week, 8 hours a day...
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DH is actually our future WAHP (currently preggo) and has lots of opinions on this! He works from home 2-3 days a week during the school year (he's a professor) and then is home 5 days a week during breaks and summers. But he also runs a full-time private law practice from home.
DH, somewhat adorably, really wants to be available to our kids all the time. (Hence his career choices). So we're probably going to do an in-home daycare near our house while the baby is tiny. That way, even if DH is home, he can be productive, but at the same time, have the flexibility to be there for the kid if they are sick and handle drop-off/pick-up most of the time. Once we're at a toddler stage, DH wants the kids around him more. His ideal is to schedule all his calls in the morning while the kid is at our church's nursery school, which is 9am-12pm. He wants to be able to have lunch with the kids on the days he's home and do his drafting (writing) in the afternoon when its more "convenient" to get interrupted. ("The kid will nap at some point right?") We'll probably get a part-time nanny or babysitter to handle the days when DH is teaching or when he's particularly busy.
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I worked as a nanny for two different families with a WAH parent. They were able to get work done, but they also came in to see their LO's a lot. And it was nice to have them right there if I had a quick question or concern.
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@Mae: I'd love to work out your daycare scenario with my employer but I'm too scared to ask.
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@HabesBabe: hahaha to your downside.
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@Torchwood: Would you charge less or the same to a WAH parent nannying situation? I was thinking about that option because my mom occasionally drives me nuts, but I don't know what the protocol is.
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@HabesBabe: I always charged the same. It didn't change the amount of work I did one way or the other, except on the few occasions when the mom would nurse. Honestly, I vastly prefer to not be in a situation with a parent home, but it's not terrible. New parents are just nit-picky. Like I got asked not to pat the baby so hard when burping her once (and no, I wasn't patting hard, they just barely tapped when they burped her to the point it did nothing). It makes me paranoid to feel like I'm being watched all the time.
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@Torchwood: LOL, that's what I thought would be the biggest downside to having one of the parents in-home while you worked. OK, good to know!
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@HabesBabe: Just to be clear, it wasn't all bad. The last one I worked with I'm still friends with the mom some. It was nice ot have some adult interaction throughout the day. And she used to bring me starbucks sometimes, and would watch LO for a minute while I ran to get food if I forgot my lunch. So it can be nice too.
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My son goes to daycare. I'm about to start looking for a babysitter to be home with me to take care of DD when I start working next month.
Before DS was two I didn't have much help and it was very difficult to get work done while he was around. I ended up working a lot of nights and weekends when my husband was home.
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I don't work from home, but my son goes to work with me instead and has since 7 weeks. It's not easy, and I really heavily on the other woman in the office to help with him. My husband also takes him some mornings out to job sites to give me a break, and he spends some Mondays and Fridays with my MIL if she's available and I feel like driving out of the way to drop him off. My son is just used to the office, though, and runs around and does his own thing a lot. We takes breaks and go for walks, and I make sure there's lots of crafty stuff for him to get into.
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If and when DD gets sick, I'm totally screwed. I have no backup or babysitter. I'll just have to manage with her home or take a sick day myself.
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