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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a baby during the pandemic and have been wfh for months. I can’t imagine being away from my baby 9 consecutive hours for 5 days now. If I am forced to go back 5 days, I will likely quit, but may reconsider if there’s wfh at least a couple of days a week. [/quote]

Yeah I don’t know how we are going to put this genie back in the bottle for a micro-generation of moms who didn’t have to send their 12 week olds to daycare or pay for a nanny. It’s clear to me that as a practical matter this can’t become the status quo (“work from home” with no infant care) but I have to assume a lot of these moms will drop out of the workforce. [/quote]
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I mean surely this subset of pandemic moms either a. Didn't have a very demanding job to begin with or b. Were not performing at 100%/for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. We all KNOW one cannot work with an infant, 1 year old or 2 year old at home en toe.[/quote]

Agreed. I had my baby last November. His daycare spot was ready for him in February, but they were nice enough to hold it for him until May. My husband (also WFH 100%) and I decided to send him to daycare in April because it just wasn’t tenable anymore between the baby’s needs and our work responsibilities. It’s one thing when the baby is younger and still has relatively short periods of being awake. Once they’re awake for longer periods of time, it’s just not fair - to the baby or your employer. [/quote]

Oh, I read the first post in this mini-chain a bit differently (possibly just projecting) - that the poster has childcare in the home (either a nanny or a stay at home spouse or something) but now having to be away-away will really stink. That's where I am - we host a nanny share, so while I'm working from 9-5 and don't have to do childcare, I can go and hug my baby on breaks and talk to him when I'm making my lunch, etc. He's older now, and weaned, but if he were younger I could be nursing instead of taking pumping breaks. Transitioning from that to being straight up gone for 9 hours will be tough, and would be tougher if he was younger. [/quote]

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