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do you work the overnight shift?

autumn423autumn423 member
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 I will be returning to work in Feb and i am
trying to decide what shifts i should work.  Does anyone work the overnight shift?  Who watches the baby during that time? Are you able to sleep during the day or is that impossible with an infant.    The plus of working the overnight shift is it is 12 hours so i only would have to work 3 shifts a week, but is it worth it or will i be miserable.  Currently i am not required to do overnight shift because of seniority at my job.
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Re: do you work the overnight shift?

  • JulieRNbrideJulieRNbride

    I have worked all different shifts in my nursing career, and nights is what works out best for everyone right now. I don't *love* it, but we make it work. I do part time nights, so two 12-hr shifts every weekend (Fri & Sat). DS #1 goes to school all day on Fridays, DS #2 goes to daycare, and I try to sleep before I go in tonight--then DH has the boys tomorrow while I sleep and I try to get up early on Sundays to do dinner and baths and spend some time with them.

    Is it perfect? No. I will honestly say that I am more tired, more cranky, and more stressed on Mondays than I ever was before. The alarm going off at 6:30 Monday morning is like a sledgehammer to my brain, and I have to drag myself around most of the day in a sleep-deprived fog, sometimes putting on movies after school to get my little guys to "nap" with me. By Tuesday, I feel great..being home during the week is nice. We have dinner together as a family Mon-Thurs, we usually do a quick dinner Friday nights together before I go to work, and Sundays are always "takeout night" after the busy weekends.

    I am going to try to keep working nights until my younger son is in kindergarten, so two more years. Argh.

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  • skittles_123skittles_123 member
    I don't, but my dh does. We tried having him stay home with our first when I returned to work at 12 wks. It didn't work out to well. DH wasn't getting any sleep. DS had to be somewhere at least part-time in the mornings. We had a friend at the time that was a sahm and she watched him until noon or so and then ds came home to take his afternoon nap and my dh slept also while he napped.
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  • tmp-515711125009200tmp-515711125009200

    I did for a while. I was miserable . . . it ended up costing me more money because I had to have daycare everyday, I was tired and cranky all the time (getting angry at DD for doing things that a 2yo does), I felt like I hardly ever saw my husband. I hated that I was home in bed while my girl was in daycare. I would put her to bed early just so I could get some sleep before going into work. I couldn't get any housework done because if she was sleeping, so was I. It really depressed me and after about 6 months, I told my boss I needed to either get off the mids or I was going to have to move on. Quality of life for me and my family was affected too much.

    I'm not sure if it would have been *as* bad if I only worked 3 days a week, though. I think, for me anyway, it would have been just as bad overall, but it might have taken longer to really have a toll on me,

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