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[quote=Anonymous]Mom of 3 here, from 4 years to 4 months.
Sympathy to you.
Thankfully I've worked on my gentleness when I realized yelling/being to strict with my 4 yo was not making anything better.
But the part that resonated with me was what you wrote --
"Expecting us to WFH, watch our children, and not have it affect our mental and physical health..."

The thing I'm most angry about is that my health - as a postpartum mom- is what gets downgraded on any priority list---
Have to take time off work to take care of kids unexpectedly home
Balance working FT from home with DH
Have to try to get the kids outside to play for their health, I'll stay in with baby
Babysitters are over booked/ stuck dealing with quarantined roommates/ not able to drive in snow / have their own kids home from school

So I have finally just accepted that my physical health is going to stay down the drain for a while. FORGET ABOUT losing "baby weight." We're lucky I have hot dogs heated for dinner.

Some days I am so exhausted of it all.

A week ago I had actually planned a date with my husband for this Saturday, of course had to cancel that due to all the unpredictability with babysitters listed above.

Looking forward to some sense of normalcy. When I can go out for some aerobic exercise by myself. When we can plan for our kids to actually be in school. When I can finally have a relationship with my dear husband again (I could not do this without him - he is so strong.)[/quote]

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