Freelance mommas in LA?
I’m 1 month pp and I can not fathom or see a path back to working and I so desperately want to go back to work. I love what I do!
My husband works from home and was only given 2 weeks paternity leave. Luckily he does help during the day, holding our boy while on calls etc - but I have not been able to establish a good morning routine for myself as a result and I have no idea how I’ll chart the path back to working.
Just curious what other freelance moms in the area have done? I know I’ll eventually look to hiring a nanny or day care but even that, at the moment, doesn’t feel right…
I guess my question is - what did you do to ease back in? Or get yourself set up for routine in small ways?
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This is so helpful and spot on! I am lucky that I do get to do a decent amount of work from home, so figuring out the spaces to bridge that is absolutely great advice. Thank you so much!
I am glad this helped! And another thing is don't beat yourself up if not every day you can hit those moments perfectly every time, see those moments as an opportunity to rest and recharge. I sketched my little one when I didn't have it in me to be productive otherwise and certainly took a nap once we got the bassinet situation guaranteed.
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All of this is absolutely normal. Baby timeframe is absolutely not like any adult time frame. Don't beat yourself up if you can't get in the flow of routine or any productivity. I found that the key at this stage if the baby is healthy is to set up your nursing space with whatever would simulate the kind of work you would be doing when you go back. It sounds like you are not quite comfortable with the shift in identity. Finding the minimum you need to feel like you are bridging the two identities is the key to making the most of this really short time at the baby's weird nap schedule. For everyone that minimum is different.For me I had a mama cozy nursing pillow that has a wall in front. When the babe would fall asleep I'd take out my ipad pro or sketchbook and mostly work on my portfolio items. Then the baby got older I was able to transfer her to a bassinet right there in my living room. Eventually, maybe at 4.5-5 months her naps became a pattern of 3. That's probably as far as you need to know for now.