DD1 turned 4 the week I went back to work. Yes for us it was partly financial reasons but I'd dithered around for a while having a career crisis and I really just needed to get myself back out there!! In the interim, I'd kept myself busy by volunteering for a local support organisation, and by doing some study - both short courses and a parttime TAFE course. Work turned out to be not-that-mentally-stimulating in the end! LOL
So there are other things you can do, besides work, to keep yourself entertained .
With DD1 I returned to work for 8 hours a week when she was 4 months. She came to work with me in a sling and then would have her nap in the port-a-cot. This went on until she was around 11 months and wouldn't cooperate very well. I taught Puppy preschools one night a week and worked Saturdays as well as doing 4 hours of administrative work with her there.
I started doing a full day of work when she was 13 months old and she went to Family Day Care... Then I got pregnant again and stayed with that. When DD2 was born, I went back to doing the puppy preschool at night and the admin stuff with the baby in the sling for a 10 months and then she started family day care for 1 day a week while I went up to a full day work.
We did need the extra income, but it was also good for me to have another use of my brain.
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