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December 2010 Moms
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ATTN working moms
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i freakin applaud you! i dont know how you do it. (im still on mat leave)
griffin woke up every hour last night since midnight and decided to wake up for the day at 530am. im so effing tired and grumpy right now and can never sleep when he naps. ughhhh. theres no way im going back to work if this is how its going to be.
so seriously, how the fvck do you all do it??
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Re: ATTN working moms
Amen to coffee and interns. I don't know what I would do without my graduate student!!
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When I have had a really bad night my days at work are MUCH less productive. I try hard to keep my focus, but as an engineer the things I am working on if not designed correctly could eventually lead to fatalities or serious injuries. I make sure to triple check my work and I work in short bursts with breaks between to rest my mind...
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A lot of coffee, and just try to stay in a good mood, no matter how tired/cranky I am. Sun. night LO was up every hour from 3:30am on. ...so the last few sleeping hours were just not enough. and then the next night I try to go to bed as soon as possible.
Luckily, it doesn't seem to be that LO doesn't pull this crap very often. But when he does, I usually increase from 2 cups of coffee to 3 or 4, and some tea or another cup of coffee in the afternoon.
Good Luck!!
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I supervise a group of 9 and I have one employee who's such a rock star. I really wish I could give him a raise, but the higher ups won't allow it since we're laying off people. I hope to try again in a few months.
I also have to say, while often it's hard to juggle working and being a new mom; work can sometimes feel like a mini-vacation. I get to drink my coffee as fast or as slow as I want to, and I hear a lot less crying (although I still hear a ton of whining).
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Yep, this is me too! And I often start sentences and then my brain just forgets. Fortunately C started STTN a few weeks after I went back. Now he just wakes up at 5:30am usually but at least we didn't have to wake up in the middle to eat. I must say though, I actually like working again much more than I thought I would. I felt just terrible putting him in DC and thought I'd never managed but it actually feels really good for everyone. He loves DC and is learning so much there. I love doing something different during the day and then getting a few great hours with my LO each day. I wish it was longer, but I guess you can't have the best of both worlds.
im starting to think this is true.
Suck it up and carry on? I was up with B from 1:30 to 5am last night. It's shittastic but, well, too bad, so sad. Have to get up and get to work.
I try not to self-medicate with coffee. And I have no interns.
On really bad days I do avoid programming though and focus more on procedural-y things. Bad things happen when I program while sleep deprived.
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I often feel like it won't take much to push me over the edge, and I'm not usually so high strung. It must be the lack of sleep. Sleeping is one of my favorite hobbies and I miss it so! I have to keep track of my time at work for billing purposes, so it makes it hard to fart around on days that I'm tired or unfocused. I just have to plow through it. People said this would be hard - working FT and being a mom, wife, step-mom, etc. - and I said "pfffffsh, it'll be fine, I can handle anything." But I've learned you don't really know until you go through it.
And dang this is tough!
I've learned to go to bed with DS now between 7 & 8pm just because we never know what the night is going to look like. Also, lots of caffeine and doing as much as I can to prepare for the next day the day before. As far as the household goes, I feel like a failure there. Not much if anything gets done during the week unless I come home at lunch time and do what I can in the 30 minutes I am home and I haven't actually cooked anything in months. Dinner is usually a bowl of cereal or something microwaved and consumed at light speed since DS usually wants my attention.
Well, I've started doing whatever I can to make sure DD sleeps... which has meant that I've been bringing her to bed with us at night. She's been waking every 45 min- hour and half over night unless I'm holding her. Then she wakes up once or twice. (sigh).
And I typically drink half a cup of coffee a day (thank goodness I gave up caffenine while pg so my tolerance went down).
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I usually get through the day just fine. My evaluations at work have all been good, and everyone thinks I'm doing a good job. However, I typically have trouble recalling what I did at work by the time the day is over
Thank goodness I work in the medical field, where "if you don't document it, it didn't happen!" I have to reread my documentation a lot to remember where we left off the next time I see my patients. I think our bodies are made to run on adrenaline and instinct during these times. I never thought I would handle this as well as I have so far. That said, I also posted earlier today about how I go to bed between 830 and 930 every night!