Question for working ladies

Lovespeter223 · June 2011

I've been reading through so many posts about working Moms. I include myself in that category and still struggling to get that perfect balance between career and home life with the husband and little one. What do you all do?

Lovespeter223 · June 2011

I'll start. I'm a registered polysomnographer and registered respiratory therapist. I work in a sleep center scoring the overnight sleep studies. Occasionally I work the night shift, but usually it's just days so at least I can see LO in the morning and at night.

Kevswife05 · June 2011

I haven't gone back to work yet, I'm off for another two months and devestated about leaving my LO.I'm sure it is going to be so hard and stressful! I am a Children';s Libraian and am going to work 2 nights a week and three reg days. I love, love my job but wish I could work part time for a while. Unfortunatly, librarian jobs are really hard to get.

sbuxsweetie · June 2011

I work at the University of South Carolina, taking calls from students and staff at the Help Desk. I also help sell software and edit school websites. I hate being away from Colin from 7-5 Monday-Friday (that includes my commute) but when H and I get home, every week night is a family night. I love the time I get to spend with my boys!

sarag0116 · June 2011

I'm a physical therapist in an outpatient setting. I'm out of the house from 7:15am till I pick up DD around 5:30 from daycare Mon through Thurs. I work 32 hours and 4 days a week now, b/c I want more time with DD.

Basically, I wake up early... 5:30 to give me time to do everything that needs to be done AND still have time to nurse and play with DD. In the evenings, I spend all my time with her until she goes to bed, and then I do bottles and take my shower, etc.

It takes a lot of diligence to get everything done everyday!

StephDK · June 2011

I am a speech therapist and I work mon-wed 8-5. My hubby travels a lot though so during the weeks that he is gone, I am going at it on my own. I rarely nurse but do pump 5x a day. When DH is home, he feeds Caleb a bottle in the morning. But when hens gone, I feed calen a bottle and pump at the same time. I usually get ready before Caleb wakes up be it really just depends on what time that is. I prop him up on a pillow next to me and one handedly feed him the bottle. My breast shields suction on to my boobs somehow, so that actually helps me out. I am out the door by 725 to drop Caleb off at my mom's house. I pick him up around 730. Things really don't get done on the days that a work. I cook a nice dinner most nights when DH is here, but laundry usually gets pushed back. I want to be better at being more organized, but when caleb wakes up during the night it is too exhausting. Once he truly starts sttn and not waking up for the paci is when I think I will have the energy to do more on the days that I work and maybe even work out, or dare I say HAVE SEX!

woweegrace · June 2011

I don't post a ton, but I am really struggling with this right now too. I am also a speech therapist who does home visits. I've been back to work for about a month now, and still don't have a good system. I work M-F, drop off at daycare between 7:20 and 7:45, depending on the day, and pick up at 5. I just stopped BF'ing and pumping, and that helps, even though I wish I could keep it up, but I was getting way more stress than milk, so I stopped for all of our sanity. My husband works evenings and weekends, and is a full time student, so I often feel like all of the baby/house responsibilities fall on me, especially when he's gone in the evening. I usually have him get DD ready in the morning, while I get ready for work. At night, I spend 5:15 - 7:30 with DD, playing, feeding, bedtime routine, etc. After I do whatever chores I can fit in till 10, when my husband gets home. We try to talk for t least 20 minutes, then its bedtime. Dinners have been pretty much heat and eat....someday I hope to get good at crock pot recipes.

ksyknelvr73 · June 2011

I am an accountant and of course my company's "year end" is right NOW so I am required to work Saturdays in addition to my normal Monday-Friday for the month of June. I am SOOOOOO dreading it and I am just a wreck thinking about how I will get through this month. It's pretty hard. I cherish the weekends (what I have left of them).

vflipo · June 2011

I work for a major electronics retailer setting up displays and maintaining vendor displays. I travel to all of the stores nearby, it's pretty fun. A retail job with a M-F 7-330 schedule is hard to come by Wink

DH works for the same company, but is based out of a store as a supervisor. His schedule is not so awesome. We see each other for maybe 20 hours a week, if that much. There's not much sexy time, or anything other than eating and cleaning going on around here.

amyk927 · June 2011

I'm an internist and my husband is currently a SAHD. I wake up, feed her 6:30-7ish, pump then go to work. Pump three times at work, she eats twice and spends most of her awake time with DH during the day. I get home between 5:30-7 depending on the day, feed her twice usually, read a story and put her to bed. It feels like I'm missing a lot because she's asleep so much of the time she's home, but there's not really a good way to modify my schedule further. She's safe and happy, so I guess it works.

monkey_pants · June 2011

I'm a textile designer and this is my fourth week back at work but I'm still settling in (for those of you who didnt see my monster post last night). I leave for work at 8:30 and try my best to be home at 6:30. I love our nanny - she's amazing - but she's 55 so I dont want to burn her out by asking her to work much more than those 50hrs/wk. One of my big issues at the moment is that DH works a lot, so I'm alone with DD when getting ready for work, and when I come home at night I play, nurse, bathe her, nurse again, then put her to sleep alone again so I'm fried every night. And he's about to start traveling again starting next wk for 5 days

Also I'm having trouble pumping 3x/day as my job is super busy so I'm cutting down to 2 but haven't yet figured out how to increase my supply to account for the lost pumping session.

courtneyt13 · June 2011

I work for a large telecommunications company. I manage 4 call center's processes and increase their efficiencies. It's a lot of fun and quite challenging. But since the centers are all over the country I work very long days and often work on the weekends and holidays. The plus side is that I can work from home if I need to and can determine my work schedule. I usually work from 7:30-4 (in the office). DH works from 9-6 so the nanny is only at our house from 8:15 to 4:30.

GracieMaeLovey · June 2011

It's hard a** work! My marriage is far too important to let it go by the wayside & I love spending time with DS- so it's certainly an ongoing struggle to balance the two. Thankfully DH helps quite a bit and we have family closeby who can watch DS if we want to go out for dinner or something similar. Once we've got it all down, this will certainly be a deciding factor as to whether or not we have more LOs, too.

magdalina.h · June 2011

I work for a moving company in the military dept. I now leave work at home. I never worked from home, but right at 5 I'm out the door to go pick up Lucas. When MH is home he helps a ton with Lucas and then we have our time after he's in bed. We never get anything done during the week, but the time I spend with my guys are much more important than cleaning or running errands.

dee1369 · June 2011

I am really struggling to find a balance.

I am a reporter at the largest newspaper in the area - we have a huge geographic area to cover with not a lot of reporters. Therefore, I cover 4 different towns spread miles and miles apart. I am scheduled 9-5 but many weeks work different shifts throughout the week depending on interviews, meetings I have to cover, etc. Sometimes I am at the office 9-12, then at home until 6, then at a meeting until 8:30ish, then home to write my article and send it in...

DH is a McDonald's assistant store manager so his hours are crazy as well. The upside is that DD very often is with one of the two of us during the day (so we don't need a full-time sitter) but the downside is that we see very little of one another sometimes (last week he worked 62 hours, and I worked 6 days).

When I'm home, DD is my focus. I do housework and chores after she goes to sleep or in the morning before she wakes up. Usually I get most of it done on the weekend, because then I just ask my parents or my MIL or another family member if they want her for a couple of hours and no one ever says no - that gives me time to clean chinchilla cages and get the work done that was neglected during the week.

DH and I make sure to make time for one another during those rare times we're together too.

christyp80 · June 2011

I'm a financial analyst for a large agribusiness company. I feel like we've got a pretty good routine down. I need to be at work at 8am, and DH doesn't work until 9, so he gets DD ready in the morning and takes her to daycare. Then I pick her up, usually around 4:30, but my schedule is pretty flexible. Once we get home, I play with DD for a few hours until her bedtime. I usually try to get bottles washed and ready for the next day while she's playing. Then when DH gets home, we'll sort of tag-team getting dinner ready and baby care. Usually we'll put DD down for the night, then eat and relax. She's a really restless sleeper, so she wakes up a few times before we go to bed, but she goes back down pretty easily. I always try to do one chore a night too...one load of laundry, sweep the floor, scrub the tub, etc.

The thing I'm struggling most with is finding time to pump during the workday. Today I had a meeting from 9 am-12:45, and my boobs were about to explode! I had to pump instead of eat lunch, and then eat my lunch in my afternoon meeting. Craziness.

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