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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Paging POSITA re: daycare says
Would you mind sharing the name of the flaky daycare? My kiddo is currently in home daycare, but we’ll be starting a search for a more structured preschool fairly soon. I’m hoping to avoid the place that gave you the run-around.
Regarding other recommendations, I have a friend with kids at Busy Bee in Arlington. They were provided fairly regular updates while they were on the wait list. They’ve been there about a month, and they’re very happy so far.
POSITA says
I’d rather not post the name since we are still trying to wrangle a spot at the center. I can tell you it’s not Busy Bee, but I’ll look them up! Thanks!
Paging POSITA says
Hey POSITA – I just saw your post from yesterday re daycare in North Arlington. Are you only interested in centers or are you open to in-home daycares? We loved our in-home provider (Charmaine Sriwardene – licensed by the County, you can find her on the list on the Arl Cty website), though we eventually left there when my child got into a center that offered up to pre-K and we liked the idea of keeping her in one place longer.
Are you on the NAP and/or MONA listservs? I’ve seen some recent emails re daycare and preschool openings, though I don’t read them all so not sure if they would fit your needs.
POSITA says
We’d consider an in-home care, but would really prefer a center. We’ve been using a nannyshare and were hoping to find something more structure now that she’ll be 2. She really likes structured activities and having lots of kids around. I have a couple of other leads, but I’ll but yours next on the list.
I just signed up for the MONA listserv but haven’t gotten access yet. Thanks for the leads!
AEK says
Anyone want to weigh in on pros & cons of nanny v. daycare for babies under 18 months? Husband and I are deciding whether to change plans for the fall.
Money-wise (cost being an obvious “con” of nanny) are there any hidden costs associated with daycare I should be accounting for in our comparison other than parking (needed for this scenario) and tuition costs? Any hidden costs for nanny?
Also, if anyone wants to weigh in on what they actually pay a nanny for 1 baby in the Chicago area, I’d love to hear it.
TwinMOM says
We’ve never done daycare so I can’t speak to a comparison or the pros and cons, but one of the biggest “hidden” costs for a nanny to consider is the cost of the activities that you want her to take your kid to outside of the home. So in addition to what we are paying our nanny, we’re paying for things like music class, kids gym, museum memberships, indoor play-space memberships, etc. Those expenses started kicking in when the boys were closer to a year and needed to get out more than just for walks, but it’s still worth putting into your budget when making the comparison. Also keep in mind seasonality – we tend to do more activities in the winter/bad weather and more free, outdoor activities in the summer.
Pigpen's Mama says
Back-up care if baby is sick and neither parent can take off work would be one cost to consider. My employer offers backup care at a reduced rate, but there still is a cost.
Possibly the cost of more stuff baby will use everyday — e.g., clothes and bottles, because as a time-saver during the week, you may not want to be washing the same set of bottles every night and doing laundry every other day. But if those are light chores a nanny would do, you could get away will less stuff.
A few things to consider that may add to the cost of a nanny would be any activities you may want her to take baby to and possibly more toys and such for around the house. And backup care as well if your nanny is sick.
Meg Murry says
Daycare rates can go up annually, or in a case like ours, stay the same for 5 years and then go up in a huge chunk when there is a new director.
+1 to backup care – many daycares have a 24 hour fever-free rule, which means if they send your kid home with a fever on Tuesday, you have to take off Tuesday to go get the kid, plus then have a plan for someone to stay with him on Wednesday. We’ve had more than one “oh crap” time where we sent the kid seeming just a little under the weather and had the “fever’s gone up, come get the kid” call by 9 am – so it basically cost us at least 2 days.
-Some daycares have additional supply fees – ours is pretty low, only $25/year (and I think it’s now been done away with and just rolled into tuition). Some also require you to buy things like crib sheets and you might need additional bottles, a lunch box, etc.
-can you get the kid on time for pickup or would you need to hire extra help to pick up kid if you often have evening work or meetings?
-time cost – with a nanny you can leave the kid at your house still in pjs or possibly in bed. With daycare you have to account for getting kid up, dressed, possibly fed, driving to daycare, etc.
-If daycare provides food you will save a little bit of money there not having to stock lunch food/baby food (and lunch for the nanny if you had been providing that). If you have to provide food you will probably wind up paying a little more for convenience food or sending extra that gets thrown out if kid only eats one bite, plus the time to make lunches.
Spirograph says
I don’t know if this is a “hidden” cost, but if you are paying a nanny on the books (which you should), make sure you check out what insurance coverage is required for household employees in your state. On top of taxes, unemployment insurance, bookkeeping fees if you don’t want to do it yourself . Our utility costs were also appreciably higher when someone needed the AC/heat all day long and during peak hours. I feel like we paid at least 10-20% more than what I’d calculated based on hourly rate alone once I added in all that other stuff. Cost is a definite con.
One hidden cost for daycare is backup care. Most daycares have a policy that your child can’t attend for 24 hours after symptoms of illness (unless you get a doctor’s note saying kid is OK). So if your child is sent home for fever one day, you need backup care for the next day, too. I’d count on needing backup care or sacrificing your own time off at least once a month. At LEAST. Unless you’re the lucky sort who can telework.
Nannies are super convenient, daycares have a lot more opportunity for socialization. Those are the big pros for each… everything else comes down to whether you like the individual nanny or individual daycare, how you feel about making a relative stranger a very integral part of your life and trusting her as a single point of failure for your child’s safety, and whether your parenting style tends more toward wanting your child to have a ton of personal attention or wanting him/her to be part of a group.
pockets says
And the cost when your husband forgets to get Unemployment Insurance and you have to pay a $250 fine to the DOL.
Side rant: if you are trying to do the “right thing” and pay your nanny on the books, the gov’t should make it easy and painless. Instead it’s really hard and very very painful.
AEK says
good tip! And I agree with the second point; the bookkeeping / tax aspect of things is not appealing to me…I already have too much work. But under-the-table is not an option for us.
Viva Las Megas says
My kid is 18 mos and we have a nanny share in Chicago. I will say that we hardly paid for any “activities” – he’s too young to have gotten anything out of that. He has a buddy his age in the share, they started interacting with each other around the one year mark. She takes them to the park, they play in our yard (city sized) and that is about it for outings.
There haven’t been many hidden costs… Rare backup care when nanny is sick…And I paid when she got a parking ticket once. We gave her a raise after six months. Otherwise, we paid an end of year bonus and got a gift basket for her family, that’s it. The share ends up being less costly than the nice centers here, though it is pretty close. We alternate houses weekly, the other family is a few blocks away. If one of the adults is traveling for work we are flexible with switching houses for that family’s convenience. It has been a great experience.
POSITA says
We’ve done a nanny share and really loved it. It’s great to have another family and baby around, both for our daughter’s socialization and ours. It’s awesome to have another family going through the same things at the same time. While it was more work for the nanny when they were really little, it became a lot more fun to have two kids when they got more interactive. They are so cute together now. They like to hold hands when they go for walks, give big hugs each morning, and have their own games. They also fight like siblings. It’s a sweet relationship and fun to watch. They’ve been together daily since they were 3 and 4 months old.
We ended up choosing to offer health insurance through the federal exchange for our nanny and it was miserable setting it up. Just horrible. Probably spent 100 hours trying to get it up and running over 4 months. We use a payroll service for taxes and that’s simple. We’re glad that we offer health coveage, but it was a beast to set up.
Anonymous says
Can we talk about mom brain?
As the mother of a young child with friends in similar places I get a lot of comments about mom brain from my peers.
I don’t feel that my brain is pudding. If it was pudding I would not be working. I don’t believe that my husband does less than what I do and when the kid cries we both wake up. I don’t feel that there is any real reason why my brain would be more pudding than his and he does not get Dad brain comments.
I feel that the idea of mom brain is sexist and damaging to working moms. I don’t believe there is any evidence that women are stupid after having kids. Sure, memory is impacted by sleep but that has an impact on my husband and I. Thoughts?
Anon for this says
It makes me cringe when someone else says it to me, although I don’t think anyone has, BUT I have felt less on top of things at work since having a baby.
I was about to say, I have less ‘brain power’, but that’s not it — it’s because there’s a significant part of my brain power is being used to take care of the baby, as I’m by far the default parent. Although my husband does a lot of the physical and hands-on parenting stuff — I’m the one keeping track of almost everything and he wants me to tell him what to do, from laundry, to bottles, to what clothes she should wear.
k. says
Completely agree!! Same thing with pregnancy brain. Yes, sometimes I have moments where my brain freezes. So do men. So do women without children. But thanks for thinking I’m suddenly incompetent!
rakma says
This bothers me too. I try not to contribute to those conversations, or brush it off. If someone else wants to claim mom-brain, whatever, as long as they’re not trying to imply I have it too.
One thing I’ve noticed, because I’m juggling so many things, I tend to remember something in the middle of another task, (or have to respond to something right away,) and sometimes that first task goes unfinished. This would happen with out kid, but it happens more with kid than before. I try to make it difficult to forget where I left off–leaving an email draft mid-sentence, or leaving the laundry basket in the middle of the kitchen, so I can cut down on the ‘what was I just doing” moments.
Meg Murry says
My brain didn’t get pudding-y, but I feel like it did get a little squishy-er when I was in ruts of being constantly super sleep deprived. I found myself having to take a minute to come up with the right words – they were no longer at the tip of my tongue. I also had a lot of “wait, where did I put that XYZ?” times, and times when projects I worked on while pregnant before maternity leave felt hazy like they had been years ago, not only a few months. My ability to just rely on my memory also slips with sleep deprivation + having to also hold onto kid stuff in my head (what day is camp again? don’t forget to take diapers and a swimsuit to daycare, etc) – I’ve had to re-train myself to write an awful lot more things down or put them on my calendar, and use the flagging for followup and search features in my email more often.
Yes, I understand hating stereotyping in “all moms get stupid”. But in fact, I definitely had some moments when I felt like “gosh, I feel so dumb – I never used to feel this dumb pre-kids”. And I also had some moments of re-reading things I wrote for work when I was pregnant that I didn’t even remember writing, or times when I said to myself “why did I file this HERE, instead of THERE?”
But yes, don’t tell me I have mom brain – I don’t want to hear it from anyone else.
Spirograph says
Actually I’ve read there is evidence for brain changes … but not necessarily that moms are “stupider” just that the neural pathways reshuffle their priorities. Plus sleep deprivation.
I absolutely think mom brain is a real thing, because I can feel the difference, but more in the sense that Anon says above — my brain is multitasking in a way that it was not before I had kids, so there’s not as much spare horsepower. The ability is still there, it’s just that focusing it takes a more concerted effort.
FVNC says
Don’t be mad, but I totally had mom brain (more accurately: sleep deprivation brain) until baby started sleeping through the night. My attention span shortened. My ability to remember job-related details disappeared. I was not as good an employee as I was before having a baby. Frankly, on some days, I was happy to have an excuse for what I perceived as poor performance. Most of that year is still a fog!
Lulu says
I’m in the “pregnancy brain” stage, but it doesn’t bother me that much. At least the idea doesn’t–I’m not sure if it has actually been said by anyone other than me. If it did happen, I’d probably roll my eyes, but at the end of the day I would much rather people say I have pregnancy brain than act as if I’m not pregnant and should be able to do things I physically can’t do anymore such as work multiple all-nighters in a row.
nk says
I hate the phrase. It’s never used as a compliment, and it’s only ever directed at women. It’s sexist and contributes to the idea that all women are biologically destined to stay home with their kids because their minds just aren’t in their work anymore.
Any person with sleep deprivation is going to have a hard time concentrating. Having a baby doesn’t make you dumb.
Actually, I just hate anything called “Mom ___” or “Mommy___.” My son can call me mommy. I am not anyone else’s ‘mommy.’ Products that call themsleves “Mom __” also contribute to the idea that dads can and should remain blissfully detatched from childrearing. I’m looking at you, ‘Amazon ‘Mom.’
Msj says
I don’t care for the name and see how the concept is damaging but for me, I felt like I took a major IQ hit. Only now that I am starting to wean do I feel on my game. For me it was less about sleep deprivation and more the depletion that came from building and exclusively feeding two additional humans at the same time as myself.
octagon says
MomHive, please help me figure out how to pick a hospital for delivery. After treatments I am now 8 weeks and need to find an OB. My RE suggested 2 practices that deliver at different hospitals. The practices are adjacent to the hospital buildings. (DC area.)
Hospital A is 30 minutes from home, assuming no traffic (which could make it more like 45 minutes). We loved the tour – everything about the hospital seemed accessible and straightforward, and the nurse giving the tour had an exceptional, educational manner.
Hospital B is 10 minutes from home, max 15 minutes with traffic. The tour was fine – the main difference between Hospital A is the triage area for initial observation, which is 4 patients to a room. You stay there for up to 24 hours before going to a private room for labor. The nurse giving the tour emphasized how many different classes the hospital offers and a few times slipped into lecture mode (don’t swaddle, etc.).
My instinct is to go with Hospital B, and keep A as a backup in case I end up not liking the OB practice associated with B. Even though the tour guide was kind of annoying, the hospitals themselves are pretty similar – same level NICUs, same number of rooms, etc. The short commute will be convenient now and could be a godsend when I get closer to my due date in February when winter weather kicks in.
Am I thinking about this correctly? Anything else I should consider?
Jen says
My hospital was an *awesome* hospital in which to give birth. It was close to my home (I live in the Boston burbs and close enough that I could have delivered in the city should I want to), a Tier II NICU (unneeded but good to know!) and had an entire wing dedicated to maternity. This hospital basically does babies and broken bones, triaging everything else to Boston. The maternity ward had 2 dedicated anesthesiologsis so when I decided to have a last-minute epi, I didn’t have to wait long. They also had great snacks and offered classes that were nearby.
Our hospital also had that triage type setup….however, I have no idea what it was like. I arrived in very active labor so they put me right into the delivery room. Apparently I had downplayed the urgency of my situation on the phone (what did I know?) ;)
anon says
Don’t know which hospitals you mean, but I had a fabulous experience at Sibley. 25 min from our house without traffic, which made me nervous, but it was fine. I was shown directly to a private labor room although I wasn’t in labor yet (water broke first). Worth it to pay for the private post-delivery room, because otherwise they don’t let your spouse/partner stay overnight. Also, the hospital definitely swaddled and taught us to swaddle (in the class and the nurses both) — which our ped is fine with.
quailison says
I wasn’t in a position to be able to choose hospitals, but one thing that comes to mind is how long you plan to/are willing to stay in triage, since that seems to be the difference between the two (aside from distance). I wanted to, and did, labor at home and so spent about 10 seconds in triage – I was glad it worked out that way, but really couldn’t have planned that. I also spent my car ride trying not to push, so was glad I was only 10 minutes away from the hospital. On the other hand, my friend spent hours in the same hospital’s triage before she was admitted and did not want to go home as she’d been in labor for a long time already. If Hospital B is only 10 minutes away, and triage seems crazy/annoying, can you go home if you want before being admitted in active labor? Are you thinking about having a doula or other person experienced with labor who might be able to help you predict when to go to the hospital?
mascot says
FWIW, I took some of my childcare classes at another hospital. They are usually open to the public so you can find the ones that work for you. Which OB practice is closer to work? Those appts are already a big time commitment so you probably don’t want to spend extra time commuting.
quailison says
+1 to proximity for the OB appointments.
JEB says
Agreed. Towards the end, you’ll start going to the OB every 2 weeks, and then once a week. All of that travel time really adds up, especially if you’re still working. The hospital portion of pregnancy ends up being quite short, assuming everything goes according to plan. The months leading up to birth end up being much more important, in terms of choosing a provider.
CarrieM says
+1. Labor at home for as long as you can, and then the 4-person triage area won’t be an issue.
Also, the DC area can shut down for any little bit of snow or ice (or just the threat of it), so I think being closer to home will be a definite plus for a February birth.
Lulu says
Yes! Proximity to work was the #1 factor for me. I wanted to deliver at a hospital on the other end of town that has a very particular midwifery practice but quickly realized that it was better to find a provider whose office was close to the hospital that is 1 mile from work or ~2 miles from home. So I’m with a regular OB (who was recommended by friends) at a regular hospital and I’m taking a meditation for childbirth course at the other hospital to hopefully help deal with my pregnancy/labor anxiety. But no matter how great I thought the other practice would be, I’m so relieved that it only takes me 10 minutes to get to my appointments instead of 30+.
Katarina says
I would go with the more convenient location, although I would also consider proximity to work. Towards the end of pregnancy there are so many appointments towards the end of pregnancy, I missed so much work, and saving a half hour + for each appointment would have been a big deal.
CHJ says
I agree. Is either practice close to work? Even though Hospital A sounds great, but that 45 minute commute (90 minutes R/T) will get really old when you’re in your third trimester. Being close to work is great though – you can step out for an appointment at lunch and be back within the hour.
Alternatively, do any of the OBs at Hospital B have admitting privileges at Hospital A? I had a scheduled-C so I don’t know much about labor, but 4 people in a triage room doesn’t sound pleasant.
octagon says
Neither practice is particularly close to work – both would be about 25-30 minutes from work. Though I telework a good bit, so proximity to home is more important.
Pest says
Go with hospital B. The extra travel time will make a huge difference with the all of the appointments you have with the OB, not just when you go in for delivery. Don’t let the quality of the nurse who gave you the tour influence your decision. The nurses who are there when you are in labor are the only ones who matter. Even the triage areas won’t matter that much, because you will be encouraged to labor at home as long as you can anyways.
Spirograph says
There are lots of us in the DC area — if you want to share the hospitals or even the OB practices, we may have specific feedback.
Personally, I chose based on the OB practice, not the hospital, but the hospital and practice are both 10 min from home, which – as Carrie pointed out above – was a definite pro in the winter with my 2nd. I actually had a fairly negative experience with the triage and/or L&D nurses at the hospital both times, but I still like all of the OBs so I’ll probably go back if I get pregnant again.
Meg Murry says
I don’t have too much advice on this except – whaaaat? Don’t swaddle?? When did that advice start? Swaddling is the only thing that kept my kids sleeping. It was the nurses in L&D that taught us to properly swaddle, and even now my kids think it’s fun to be “rolled up like a burrito”
CarrieM says
Hahaha – I had the same reaction when I saw that!
CHJ says
Me too! Swaddling is the best!
quailison says
Me three! Kid lived in a swaddleme for sleeping for those first few months!
pockets says
My neighbor just had a baby (preemie so maybe that changes things?) and he told me that the nurses were super adamant about not swaddling the baby. I felt so, so bad for him in that moment, because I knew he wouldn’t swaddle his baby, and his life was going to be so much harder than it had to be for the next four months.
HM says
I have a preemie, And as soon as she was in an open air crib, we were taught how to swaddle her properly (she was quite the Houdini). We were at one of the top hospitals in our major city, so no clue where this no swaddle idea is coming from…
PPD help says
Another question you might want to ask about the triage situation – what if you’re induced? Would you spend that time in the triage room or go directly to a private room? I think inductions are fairly common – I was – and would be curious about the setup for that. In my case I never went to triage but straight into a private room for the scheduled induction.
Tunnel says
Do you plan on breastfeeding? If so, I would look at whether either hospital has a “baby friendly” designation, meaning they encourage and give you extra, extra support in the breastfeeding department (regular lactation consultant visits, access to pumps, no pacifiers, don’t send you home with formula, etc.) and pick that one. I could not believe how difficult breastfeeding was and how much technique was involved. I am certain that I would not have stuck it through if I hadn’t constantly had access to nurses and lactation consultants during my stay, like my friend who delivered at a non-“baby friendly” hospital.
In House Lobbyist says
I agree with the advice about breastfeeding. Mine were 3 years apart but the difference in their policy was amazing. I struggled the entire time nursing my first. I had a c section and was there for 4 days so I had the LC come everyday and they insisted I use a nipple shield and the nurses told me my 5 pound baby had to have formula or he might die. The second was so much different – I actually got to nurse her in the operating room and the word nipple shield or formula was never mentioned. My husband even asked for the formula swag because he loved the backpack with the first one and the hospital didn’t take the formula companies gifts anymore. I struggled the entire time nursing my first but my second was so much better and I think so much was because of the hospital policy.
2 more weeks says
I tried searching past posts as I am sure it is discussed previously but to no avail so here goes…
I have two more weeks of maternity leave and I’ve stopped breastfeeding 2 weeks ago. I am shopping on Monday for a bra for this in between stage. The difference is literally a cup between the two (left is a B, right is a C).
Any advice? All I seem to find are nursing bras and I just want something inexpensive, comfortable, and work appropriate (read no THO) for the next month or two.
TIA!
mascot says
Department stores or outlet malls. I’m thinking VanityFair/Maidenform/Bali type can usually be found on some sort of discount. I got a few basic ones for that in between stage. The cup size may just have to worked itself out. A lined bra or one with removable pads could work to camouflage the difference.
CHJ says
I got a stretchy, lined, pullover-style bra at Uniqlo for that in-between stage. It wouldn’t be supportive enough if you’re still nursing, but it was very comfortable otherwise, and plenty stretchy to accommodate shifting sizes.
hoola hoopa says
I really like the Wacoal b.tempt’d Full Bloom for an underwire with give. It’s stretchy, supportive, cute/s*xy, available in my odd size, and inexpensive. I’ve used it for 1-size changes due to pregnancy/weaning.
Anon says
I had to g**gle THO. I feel so out of the know…
As for avoiding THO, even unlined bras will not give you THO if they fit you correctly. My advice is to wait as late as possible before going back to work before you buy. It may not take that long to get to your post-BF’ing size, depending on how far you are post-partum. I personally got there rather quickly after stopping BF’ing/pumping. You may already be there after 2 wks.
mascot paging NewMomAnon says
I just answered your therapist question on yesterday’s post. Hope that helps
NewMomAnon says
Thanks! That was what I hoped to hear. There are definitely times I feel like my therapist doesn’t “get” the mom angst (he has freely admitted that he was more of the “absentee father” type when his children were small), but I think on balance it’s still a good relationship.
PPD help says
Hi ladies – so, this is kind of unbelievable, but I just called my midwife for help with PPD issues and was told they can’t help because I’m more than 6 weeks postpartum. They referred me to my PCP, but I’ve only ever seen them once and don’t really want to go that route. So … Can anyone recommend a therapist in DC/NOVA who is good with ppd?
CarrieM says
Here are recs I’ve seen from other moms on local listservs: Dr. Seigler near Seven Corners; Noella Driscolla; Benta Sims (multiple recs for her); Leslie Burpee with Sunstone Counseling in Falls Church; The Family Center in Bailey’s Crossroads. Also, there are some resources and information on postpartumva.org. I’m not sure if you’re back at work yet, but if you’re not, there’s a postpartum support group at VHC in Arlington that meets weekly (Wednesday or Thursday morning I think, but check their website) – it’s free and open to all parents. Good luck!!
PPD help says
Thank you!!
anon says
I have heard recommendations for Dr. Heather Diamond on I st.