Posted by Sue on July 17, 2003 at 11:06:10:
In Reply to: Some advice please? posted by tori on July 17, 2003 at 10:42:08:
: Good morning ladies. Has anyone ever taken their baby with them to work? I am an operations manager for a Research and Development company and I am planning on taking the baby with me. I have a pretty big office that is private and up until last night I didn't really second guess it. But...I wander how it will work out? I am hoping I can get my work done. I have an assistant who does most of my busy work but still...It just kind of all hit me last night. We just bought a house, my husband just got a better career opportunity and is switching over and I am having my first baby. Suddenly, I feel a little overwhelmed like is this all going to work out. Did anyone else feel this way? So uncertain over night? TIA!
I run an office for an IT company. We had just started a big project when our program admin was came back from maternity leave. A lot of us who work here are actually related, inlaws and cousins, so we tend to be leanant with some of our rules. We decided to let her bring her 3 month old to work with her. We had 4 people here working on the project. After about a week I could tell it wasn't going well. She spent a lot of time breastfeeding in the kitchen. And then the baby would have to nap somewhere and then we'd all have to be really quiet. And she was a fussy baby too. It started to be a major distraction and her work was suffering. In theory it sounds like a great idea but in reality it was not an ideal situation for anyone invloved, including the baby. When I had my baby I opted to stay home for three months and come back part-time for two. I had intentions of returning full-time but we are going through a merge and I'm losing my job. We just bought a house and a car and paid 1/2 of our savings to have our swimming pool fixed. I feel so obligated to contribute to our household and be an equal earner, but the job market stinks right now and we've decided that I will be better off not working. We'd pay more than 1/2 of my pay for daycare (right now grandma watches DS). A women has to struggle between the need to care for her children and pulling her weight to contribute to the finances. It's a a constant tug of war. Good Luck and best wishes.
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