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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Nephs13
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Working Moms: How many hours a day during the week do you spend with LO?
Nephs13
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My husband and I both work full-time. My schedule has me working 9-hour days (minimum), but then I get every other Friday off (this is called a 9/80 schedule, in case you've heard of it). Anyway, I normally work from 6:30-4/4:30PM every day, then pick up DS immediately afterward. Since he goes to sleep between 7-7:30, this means I usually get 3 hours or less of quality time with him every day. It makes me so sad that it can't be more than that, so of course I treasure the weekends when I have more time than that.
We are expecting our second child now, and it definitely stresses me out to think of that one-on-one time cutting down even more. Just curious what other working moms are going through/how many hours you spend? I guess it's not the quantity of time, but rather the quality.
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Re: Working Moms: How many hours a day during the week do you spend with LO?
We both work full time as well. I get about an hour in the morning & about 4 hours at night. We spend all weekend together. I'm a teacher, so I get all summer & several breaks as well.
Ok, now I'm depressed
I pick up DD between 4:30 and 5 and she's in bed by 7:30-8:00. And one night a week our DCP keeps her until 7:30 so DH and I can have a 'Date Night'.
Yeah - I treasure the weekends!
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DH and I both work full time too. Monday - Friday from 8:30am - 5pm. We wake up as a family around 7am to get ready. By 7:45, we are heading out the door. DH drops DD off at daycare by 8, and I pick her up around 5:20. I rush home to get dinner going and we eat around 6 usually. DD goes to bed around 7:30. I tried to cut back to four days a week when I came back from maternity leave, but my company wouldn't allow it
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We have already talked about me going part time (i.e. 3 days a week) when we have a second LO. If my current company won't allow that, I will have to look for a new job at that time.
DH and I both work FT. I'm with Ry from 6:45-8am, then I pick him up at 5:20, and he goes to bed between 7-8. DH sees him even less because his work schedule is crazy.
I work from home two days a week and am in the office three days. On the three days I am in the office, I leave my house at 6:45 to take son to MILs house. I get up and get ready before I get him up. I get him up around 6:10- so we spend a good 30-40 minutes together before we get in car for a 25 minute drive. Once I get to MILs house I usually hang out for another 15 minutes. So we get around an hour together in morning.
My husband picks up son and I am meet them at home around 5:15, and he goes to bed between 7:30 and 8, so I get another 2 hours or so with him.
Luckily, on Mondays and Frdays I work from home and have the nanny come after his morning nap. I usually hang out with him from 6-8:30. I then put on a show for him while I answer emails and other requests, then I put him down for a nap around 9:30. She comes around 11 and takes over until husband gets home at 3:30. I usually spend a little time with them at lunch too.
In total we are lucky to spend 12.5 hrs with Lo. That doesn't count the time in the car because I don't consider that quality time.
We get her up at 6am and leave at 6:20. So that's about 20 mins. every morning.
I drop her off at daycare at 7 and pick her up at 3:30. We don't get home until close to 5.
From 5-7 we get to hang out, but mostly that's unpacking DC bag, prepping for DC in the morning, making dinner, baths, and bedtime.
It sucks!
Like you, I may get 3 hours with DD weekday evenings, plus another 30 minutes in the morning where we play, read, get ready and eat breakfast.
I wake her up at 6:50 and drop her off at about 7:30, then pick her up around 5 and she goes to bed around 7:30.
It's definitely not enough time during the week, but I modified my schedule after I had her so I have Fridays off so I do have a 3 day weekend every week. That's pretty much what I live for.
They want me to come back full time so I'm trying to figure out if I should work 4/10 hour days or just give up my free Fridays. Both options are completely depressing.
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Some nights I don't see DS at all!
I work 45-60 hours a week, depending on the week and DS is a 6:30/7:00 bedtime. It's really hard.
I do get about an hour with him each morning and try to leave work by 5 a couple days a week. But I really do cherish our weekends!
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4.5 hours total but that includes time in the am when i get her up & when we're in the car before and after drop off at school. it's really only around 2.5 hours a day when we're at home. NOT ENOUGH TIME IN A DAY.
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Same here... I pick DD up at DCP at 4:45pm, and she's in bed by 7:30pm every night. I cherish the weekends with her... I feel terrible for DH, since his work schedule is all over the place.
I pick DS up at 445 every day and he goes to sleep around 8 (730 lately with the time change). I don't see him in the morning because I go in so early. I don't work Fridays, so I have a 3 day weekend with him every week (I work 4 - 10s). I am very lucky for that.
DH gets him up in the morning, to the sitter and sees him for about an hour-ish when he gets home from work.
DD gets up around 5:45/6 every morning and we leave at 6:15 so I get a half hour or so before we leave, then I drop her at my mom's and I usualy stick around for a bit so I get another half hour-ish there, then I work 8-4:30 and get back to pick her up about 5 and we get home around 5:45/6. She goes to be around 7:30.
So I think TOTAL I get about 2.5 hours give or take.
pick up is at 4:30p, bedtime starts at 8-8:30ish .. weekends she gets our FULL attention and she LOVES going on errands w/ me on saturdays.
I get up around 6:30 and she is usually sleeping, we don't have to wake her bc FIL watches her. We get home by 3:30 and she goes to bed around 10ish most nights. So a good 6 hours most days?
I also bedshare with her and love the snuggles durrnig the night.