nursery, work and toddler

what is everyone doing with nursery and working? Me and husband both work full time. Today is the last settling in day at nursery but we’re doing the 30hours so we’re taking her half days. My little one is 14 months.

I’m looking after her whilst trying to wfh in the morning, settling her in nursery is emotionally draining as it is and then trying to work in a nearby cafe after is so hard.

I don’t know how I can sustain this lifestyle of wfh in mornings with her she’s so active, and very needy atm (my husband stays when he can but his job is onsite a lot).I’m typing this as she’s refusing to take her nap 🙂🙂🙂

How is everyone tackling this?

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I can’t do it. Unfortunately I’m having to do this today as a one off, but I’ve asked a friend to come over and watch her while I work upstairs because for me it’s impossible to wfh with a toddler.

Normally though, me and my coparent work opposite days and have compressed our full time hours, mine are over 3.5 days and his are over 3, she does one day at nursery.

Yeah as above I’d probably look at compressed hours or dropping a day and utilising those 30 hours differently, personally can’t see how you’ll be able to sustain it and keep your sanity! You might also find full days help her settle. We both work full time and have 3 x days nursery and 2 x with grandparents (which we’re lucky for) but long term plan is for me to drop a day at work x

I don't think you can WFH with a baby. Either one will need more attention than you're able to give whilst trying to split so you end up doing 1 or the other. I would look at full days in nursery

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