how do you handle working out of the home when you have children?

United States
December 1, 2006 11:08am CST
hi!! i have a 6 month old baby,and i stay at home. he is a pretty high needs baby with acid reflux and severe allergies. he needs meds 3 times a day and is on a prescription formula. he basically needs to be held all day too. i know many of you moms return to work when you have a baby. i have been thinkning about it for the extra money. it just makes me sad thinking about leaving him in daycare. i miss him like crazy whenever i do some errands for a few hours so i dont know how i would handle being away from him all day. i just worry that he would cry the whole time and be miserable. just wondering about your guys' experiences with working and leaving your child at daycare. thanks!
3 responses
• United States
2 Dec 06
When my oldest (he's 8 now, and I have 3 kids) I went back to work and he went to an in home day care provider at first, then a regular day care for a bit. Then when he was about the age of your baby, 6 months, he started have adverse reactions to any and all baby foods, except green beans, not like severe food allergies, but it came out in infantile ezcema (which is a precursor to asthma). He had it BAD, his pediatrician said after 14 years he was the worst case he had ever seen. His cheeks would stick to his crib sheets in the mornings after rubbing his itchy cheeks into them throughout the night. It was so sad. My beautiful baby had oozing cheeks. I would pick him up from daycare/sitter and always felt like they didn't take good enough care of him, not like I would've. Then just after he turned one year old, he suddenly broke out into hives. Repeatedly, and it took a few months to realize that he was breaking out into hives after any animal would lick him. I realized this at a petting zoo with deer. Once his ear swelled up the size of a cauliflower! I was terrified to leave him with anyone. Then one day he had difficulty breathing (about 14 months old) and I took him immediately to the pediatrician and come to find out he his asthmatic. That was it! I quit my job right then and there and never looked back. It was HARD, let me tell you, going to a one income family, but the health of my son was well worth the price. Now, his asthma is under control and he has outgrown his allergy to saliva, but now he has a severe allergy to peanuts.
• United States
2 Dec 06
thanks so much for that info :) i hope your son is doing okay!
• India
2 Dec 06
i dint work wen my kids were small...i started working only wen thy grew up...
@boeyong (256)
• Malaysia
2 Dec 06
I guess it all takes some planning and time-juggling. It also depends on the nature of your work. You can carry your baby in a body strap (am I right to call it that?) while you are working. Put all his meds in 3 portions as well as his prescription formula prepared in advance for the day. Babies need their mother's touch most when they are sick. And what assurance and comfort you can give him when he sees your face all the time.