If your DH is a chef....

reginaeschette

tell me how you cope with always being with LO in the evenings and weekends by yourself. Maybe it's just me, but it's pretty tough. Sometimes I feel like a single parent and Saturdays are the worst b/c I get NO break. It's bad enough that we work opposite schedules and only see eachother on Sun and Mon. I just wish I had help during the witching hour, which is b/w 5 and 6pm, sometimes longer if she's not feeling well.  Any tips would be nice.

MrsRebecca

Well, my husband isn't a chef but he does leave for work at 3:30 p.m. and get home between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. So I have LO all evening and on weekends.

This is my first day home alone with DS as DH took 4 weeks off work, but I am also nervous about how things are going to go now that he is back to work.

Today has been rough so far...with DS's colic and reflux I foresee a lot of long days ahead of me!

jhenry1204

This is exactly why I quit managing restaurants.  I loved it, but it meant no family time.  DH works night shift and weekends.  It sucks.  I feel like a single parent.  Luckily I got LO on kinda a routine, and she tends to wake up when he gets home in the am.  That's when I get my time away usually about two or three hours.  After LO falls asleep after her feeding he goes to bed for the rest of the day leaving me to tend to LO alone all over again.  DH does what he can, but it really sucks.  Over the last few weeks things have become much easier but it was really hard at first.

charab33

I could've written this post.  My family always says how lucky we are b/c we don't have to hire a stranger to watch LO while I'm at work (teacher), but sometimes I feel like we're sacrificing our time together.  Saturday is the worse for me too. He goes from 9-11.  He usually has all day Sunday off, so we get that, but during the week it's 2 nights together and then the rest he is at work.  I too feel like a single parent sometimes, even though DH is an incredible husband and father.  I tell him at least once a week that I'm not sure how much longer I can take this.  Good Luck!

reginaeschette

I think we need to start a support group Glad I am not the only one in this boat.