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Are there any other Mamas that work from home?! How do you divide your time?! Help!

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Following! My 14 month has objectively too much screen time….

This is me!!!! Lol

we are the same!!! Lol we should chat some time

Duuudddeee!!! Let’s do it! Lol

I pretty much go back and forth between working and entertaining. 😂 I start at 730, I get in a good hour before she's up. Then I try to get her fed, changed and settled before my 930 meeting. She has screen time during my meeting. After that she's in her play pen and plays for 30 min to a hour with various toys, books, puzzles. Then first nap. I try to work as much as I can during her nap. She will wake up like 1-2, we eat lunch, play, if it's nice out then a quick walk, and she will have some screen time until I'm done at 4. Sometimes she does a 2nd nap and then I can relax for a min. 😮‍💨

First of all Kudos to us moms juggling both working from home and caring for a new toddler… it can get cray cray! 🤪

My hubby got us one of those giant playpens that literally takes up our full living room. It helps our boy feel free while playing and this mama can focus on work and know he won’t get himself hurt.

Like others mentioned i go back and forth with working and entertaining him when he calls my attention. Some days are harder then others. When im on zoom meetings… Miss Rachel saves the day (time). 😉

Last week my hubby was on vacation and he took care of our son and daddy daycare went so great that my hubby signed our him up to start preschool in Feb for half a day… lol! This mama is finally going to get a small break. 🙌🏻

My work starts at 10 so we wake up at 8:30 get changed, dressed, have breakfast and then play for a little bit. By 11am she will take her first nap so I’ll try to get my meetings done as much as I can. Ms Rachel is in the background if I am having meetings 🤣 She’s a whole babysitter. After she wakes up, we will play and then have lunch. I try to reply to emails or make calls while she plays with her toys after lunch. And then it’s time for her second nap again. I rush back to work and try to cramp the rest of the stuff in that time. After she wakes up I call it a day. My work ends at 5pm. It’s sooo hard and tiring. I barely have the energy to make dinner

What kind of work do you all do that lets you be this flexible? I have to log every fifteen minutes I spend working on deliverables and find it impossible to work with so many interruptions.

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Family culture difference on money

Sorry this is long, I hope some of you get to the end and give advice!!!

So I’m a very thrifty person, things are tight at the moment, the cost of living crisis and my house is heated by oil so things are extortionate. We aren’t on the bread line but we aren’t flush, hubby might be made redundant so there is some financial pressure.

Sometimes I buy my sons something nicer, on the justification that I can sell it on after (♥️ vinted ♥️). I have also been planning on pretty much breaking even most of the baby things I bought from face book market place, side by crib, baby changing unit, etc.

Hubby and I have different money cultures with our families (he’s Indian, I’m British). I’m my family we don’t mix money, we would help each other out if someone was in trouble and will get each other gifts on special occasions. With hubby’s family money is much more fluid, they will give each other things worth thousands of £ just because.

Hubby’s brother bought him a new laptop and a new Google phone, he’s been very generous to hubby. Hubby hasn’t given the same back because brother is much richer.

Hubby and I mostly share finances. If it’s relevant I’m the higher earner.

Now to the point! My babies are so cute they’ve given hubby’s brother (currently single) baby rabies. He’s asked for our baby stuff when we’re done with it. He’s been so generous to hubby I feel really stingy saying no. But I’d never have bought some of the stuff if I wasn’t going to get a return on it - the thought makes me a bit anxious. If we gave all our baby stuff given the second hand value it still wouldn’t equal what the brother had given hubby.

I thought maybe I could give him some stuff but sell some stuff, but hubby said then his brother will just have to go out and buy that stuff, so I should name my price and ask his brother for the money. That makes me feel very uncomfortable, given how generous the brother has been to hubby.

So what do I do ladies? Give it all and suck it up? Give part of it and sell parts on Vinted/FB, or ask hubbys brother for money for it and be uncomfortable? Or do you see another solution?

No one is being entitled or rude here, just a culture difference I need to navigate.

Looking for more same age friends!!

Hi! I’m 23 and a stay at home (soon to be) mom. I have been having a tough time finding friends/women in similar circumstances to mine and would love to make some if possible! If you feel the same, let me know

Advice

Hi everyone! I honestly have 0 social queues when it comes to talking to anyone in general. I definitely have a hard time talking to other women and making new friends. I can 100% relate. I just don’t like the idea of texting or meeting up but when I do I’m like “oh this isn’t bad.” Any advice? I also have a hard time getting comfortable and just feeling judged by other women😅 I’m also 19 so maybe making a change in this now will help in the future making mom friends/friends in general. Thanks in advance!

Hard to relate to others

I feel like I struggle so much with finding people I can be myself around. Before pregnancy it was hard enough, now as I mom i feel like im never going to have a real friend. Im an "alt conservative" ive always had dyed hair and I love tattoos though I only have one for now. Im a Christian, though I tend to be uncomfortable in church because of my social anxiety and ive never had anyone to go with. A lot of conservative people get nervous to talk to me because they think im liberal so they keep me at arms length and liberal people tend to freak out and block me when they find out im conservative or they'll push me and try to make me do things im uncomfortable with. I used to just smile and fake my way through social interactions but now its so important for me to model confidence in myself to my boy. To have my bright colored hair, because its just hair its fun it doesnt hurt anyone, but to praise god.

Fiancé won’t talk to baby

Am I being dramatic? Im 23 weeks and my fiancé refuses to talk to the baby. He touches my belly sometimes but that’s the most he’ll do. I brought it up to him saying it’s important for him to have bonding time with baby while baby is developing but he refuses and tells me not to dictate his relationship with his child. Is this a red flag?

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