It’s my first day back from maternity leave!

I’m very fortunate to have a boss who offers me flexibility! I worked from home while pregnant, and will be continuing to work from home now that my Paid Family Leave is up. My husband has been working from home for a year and a half now, and his work desk is just to the right of this picture!

Once she can roll over, we will swap out the floor mat for her play pen! Looking forward to more quarantining with my favorite people — now I can get back to cutting accurate and confusion-free paychecks for our community health center’s incredible providers and staff. 💪🏻💵🤱🏻

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That is wonderful! My hubby and I also work at home now. We teach and are so loud that we need to be in opposite sides of the house. At some point, my kids were small and I had a playpen close by. It’s awesome that you get to see your baby grow.

What is your husbands job from home and yours?

This will be my future set up

Well done! Im the same but with a 2 yr old and pregnant! Women power 🦸‍♀️ xx

How are you managing with giving time and attention to your baby while also getting your work done?
I’m going to be doing a mix of working from home and in an office after maternity leave and people keep saying “oh great that will save money on childcare when you’re at home” and I’m like, well no she’ll have to have childcare because I’m working 🤨😂 just wondering how you’re balancing both without compromising one or the other x

👍Bet working from home makes it easier tho...congratulations!

I'm looking for a stay at home job so I can stay home with my 3 week old son any suggestions

I work from home but I take calls so I’m not sure if this will work for me but I’m going to try! My fiancé doesn’t work from home but he works nights. I’m a first time mom and never had to think about balancing work and a child before but I’m excited 💜

Congratulations on having this time with your family! So happy for you. Hope you guys can do this for years till baby goes to school

I am loving all the women uplifting

I wondering where did u get that adorable lounger from that ur baby is on

I am currently working from home too with my LO of 10 months! 🙌🏽

Did you need to be on paid maternity leave while working from home? I want to work from home but work is making me take FMLA so That I can’t work from home.. their argument is that it sets a precedence for others.. and people aren’t happy about it because they don’t like to work 🤣

I'm looking for an at home job if you all know of any..I live in Utah! It's hard with us having the same schedules and we don't want just anyone watching our son with covid and all still. Even family.

I loooove it! So cute!!

I’m trying to get a remote job so I can stay home once I have the baby or after my hrs are up for family act law whatever it is I would miss out on my kid and have to go back in the office. I don’t want to miss out on anything and would rather watch take care of my baby.

Thats a great setup and ur baby looks so comfortable.... Blessings to u mama

This is seriously the best thing I’ve seen! I had to leave my corporate job because I wasn’t able to work from home after having my baby.
I’m so happy for you that you can be right there with your baby all while having financial freedom. You go momma!!

This is so sweet xx

in our community

circumcision

are we circumcising our boys? or leaving that to dad?

Routines?

When did you start to introduce your baby’s routine? Do they just have a night routine or full day routine? Wondering when I should start this e.g naps at the same time everyday.

Any routines you have that work for you, please let me know them with timestamps. my baby is 6 weeks and just wondering when we should start them?

Does anyone else’s baby spit up breastmilk but not formula?

I’m seriously considering seeing a lactation consultant because I don’t understand why he can’t hold down breastmilk but can formula. I use soy formula since I’ve used it with my daughter and I’m thinking it might be due to not getting milk coming in for a few days so I had no choice but to give him formula, but now even if I take breaks in between feeding him breastmilk to burp or try to mix breastmilk and formula, he spits it up sooo much. I’m ready to just give him just formula because I’m worried about him not eating enough

I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

Complicated pp

I’m 4 weeks pp; am I the only one that has a uti and clit kinda went inward?? I’m waiting the 6 weeks but I have used a vibrator and I have a hard time feeling anything

Stroller

Hey,

Baby is getting slightly too heavy for his travel system now.

I was just wondering want strollers people recommended. Thank you