Any work from home mamas with a demanding job and baby at home?
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I was on a 3hr webinar yesterday with my girl and omg it was hard work, couldn't concentrate and was just a disaster X
My job can be WFH and can be back-to-back meetings all day. I would suggest the following: - discuss with your team and manager of having a no or low meeting session in the day (say, 11-1) when you can work on your own stuff. If you organise it around an awake time then you know you shouldn't be interrupted by phone calls or meetings unless it is an emergency. You would have to protect it fearlessly. - have someone in the house with you, just in case LO needs to be picked up and you can't. I guess it would be counted as Babysitting if you needed to pay them. - Consider a longer week day in your hours in the office, so your WFH day is shorter and you are just catching up on emails or the odd call. - when possible, be upfront that you have a small one in the room. If your team is understanding, then they would forgive mini disruption. (They do for barking dogs and parcel delivery 🤷♀️) - get a travel cot and fill it with activities, particularly stuff that you use for work like old keyboard or old phone
If all fails, consider taking the financial hit for 6 months and reduce your hours. Life evolves and difficult situations become much more manageable. I've done variations of the above. Ask the question and sometimes people will surprise you on their flexibility. (And on their rigidness!) That's what I have learnt. Good luck with it
My LO is at nursery 2 days. I still work full time and work alot of my hours on an evening once he's in bed. My 2 nursery days I work long days. Dad's home from 11 on a Friday so I work morning nap usually straight through until tea time. Monday and Wednesday I work evenings 7-10.30 and then nap times. It's EXHAUSTING but we have no family nearby and nursery is extortionate where we are so we've had to make it work. My work know and are happy with this and only ever call me onto meetings Monday and Wednesday if needed and understand bub will usually be on my knee if it's scheduled last minute. Once we get some free hours in Sept he'll go an extra full day so I can really condense my hours
Unfortunately we’re not even allowed to work from home if our kids are poorly and have to take carers leave. I have worked from home with my eldest but he’s 14 now and at the time he could get his own breakfast etc but I couldn’t do it with a baby but I have a lot of meetings and phone calls so I guess it depends on the type of job but I would check with HR as there maybe some kind of policies around it x