I’m currently 7 days postpartum. Me and my husband both have full time jobs and we both were approved for 6 weeks of paid leave. I work from home where he has a fairly labor intensive job where he’s away for 10-12 hours a day. It’s rare he gets home after 8 hours.
Even though we still have 5 weeks remaining (which isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things) I’m having a lot of anxiety over the fact that I will be here by myself with our newborn and 18 month old while also trying to work. Is it possible? Has any one else been in a similar situation? How did you manage? I’m making myself sick thinking about it, as my toddler doesn’t fully understand yet that baby sister is not a doll. I’m relying so much on my husband to care for her while I breast feed.
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Sorry you are having anxiety that is no fun. It might sound overwhelming now but yall will get in a routine and you will wonder why you even worried about it. I was worried when we brought our new baby home because we have 3 kids and my husband had to go back to work the day after we got home from the hospital thankfully my mom came for the week (she lives 2 hrs away) to help with the kids and get my oldest daughter to school I was so worried about how I was going to handle it all by myself but that next week I got her to school and we kind of got into a routine but I make sure I lay everything out the night before and try to have everything I need to make out morning easier. Our son doesn’t understand that the baby isn’t a doll yet either so I have to watch him super close