All you working mamas out there (especially the ones that have to go back to work after just a few months!) - I am in awe, seriously. I was up all last night with terrible period cramps and ibs (the 'perfect storm' as I like to call it) . I am DEAD today at work. Like can't-keep-my-eyes-open-or-think-about-anything dead. I don't know how you do it day in, day out on such little sleep. Hopefully I'll find out soon (!), but until then I will continue to marvel at just how AWESOME you all are!
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Hope you feel better!
I'm a working mama and I don't feel awesome....I just feel like a zombie, haha!
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Here here!!!! I'm and constatnly awestruck by all the USA mamas who are back to work so soon, and still manage to pump, nurse, function and keep a house going. Kudos to you all!
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Seriously. Don't know how working moms do it!
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Hope you feel better.
You do get used to it with a newborn! Even now, I look back and wonder how I operated at work after waking up 2 times a night for feedings. Now I am "tired" if I get less than 7 hours!
That being said, my hair has been in a pony tail every day for work since my daughter was born!
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Aww, it will get better! It definitely gets better when LO sleeps through the night, if only I can get my DH to stop working till 2 or 3 a.m. It's been killer lately on me the next day at work!
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@Thehistoryofus: I gave up on my hair a month ago. I'm hoping with my new job I will get motivated again.
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Haha, thanks!
I can't say it's fun, but more survival mode? My coworkers and I joke that it's "sink or swim".
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@krsmall: @Thehistoryofus: I now put makeup on in the bathroom at work in the morning. I'm wondering when I'll just ditch makeup altogether!
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hope you feel better - hate feeling like that at work
& thank you! no one ever says that, hehe.. my mother was a SAHM and she's always giving me the "OH I KNOW how tired you are" and I'm thinking, no you don't! you got to wear your pjs all day and not shower if you wanted to, hahaha
funny thing - now that DS is sleeping (mostly) through the night, I'm still waking up to check on him! Someday we'll all sleep again, I'm sure
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@rachiecakes: yah i was so much more rested while on maternity leave.
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I'm already dreading coming back to work after "maternity leave" and I haven't even left yet. I so wish there was a way we could afford for me to stay at home.
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@winniebee: LO is 19 months old and I just started wearing makeup again approximately 2 months ago
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@Thehistoryofus: I have a permanent pony tail as well, and that is my least favorite hairstyle on me too!
@winniebee: I put my makeup on at work too, at my desk and have learned to do it in like one minute haha. Consequently it doesn't look very good but it looks way better than without.After reading what I just wrote, I feel very sad. This is not ok!
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I agree! I get up every so often to let our dog out in the middle of the night and then I can't function ALL day because of my disrupted sleep. Oh myyyyy! How will I be when I have a LO?!
p.s. @char54: At first, I thought the subject said "You All Deserve a Round of Applesauce".... and I love applesauce!
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@Ash: I used to *require* 8 hours of sleep. Mysteriously now I can get by on much, much less.
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@winniebee: I hope that is the same for me.
I can't say it's fun, but more survival mode? My coworkers and I joke that it's "sink or swim".
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