I have always thought of myself as being a pretty realistic person, so when I made the decision to be a work from home Mom I really thought that I knew what I was letting myself in for.
Don’t get me wrong I KNEW it wasn’t going to be easy but I was convinced that with my organisational skills I would manage.
So where have I gone wrong? for the first month or so Charlie slept in-between every feed. How fantastic BUT with him feeding every three hours day and night and us new parents still trying to get to grips with having a newborn and the inevitable sleep deprivation, his sleep time was better spent catching up on washing, eating, sterlizing, sleeping, cleaning etc.
It’s ok, I thought, as he gets older we will know what we are doing and have a routine, yeah right!!. By the time Charlie was 2 or 3 months old and all the visitors had gone home we started to emerge from the haze, he started sleeping longer between feeds during the night and the sleep deprivation started to pass.
Now all we needed to master was getting out of the house before the day was over. I couldn’t believe it the first time we decided to leave the village and go out for the day. At this point Charlie was still feeding every three hours so after his feed we started to get ready, packed the changing bag, and faffed about with the car seat again – I really do believe that car seats should carry a warning sign ‘ Not to be used by anyone without a university degree’.
By the time we were convinced we had everything ready it was time for his next feed. Total time it took to get out of the house – 3 hours. I am pleased to say that after a few attempts we got it sussed and now I can get out of the house in 15 minutes.
My new objective was to fit in all of Charlie’s hospital, Doctors & Physio appointments around general day to day life.
Now I seem to have gone off track a little here but basically the point I am trying to make is that I seem to have spent the last six months on the cusp of getting into a routine where I can manage being a Mom with working from home, only to find that something else comes up that I need to master.
Oh well, maybe I wasn’t as well organised as I once thought, better step it up a gear.