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Schedule Changes with a Baby

19 pointsby thehoffover 5 years ago

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basseqover 5 years ago
Hard to react fully to a tweet, but if anything, this massively UNDERESTIMATES the scope of the impact.<p>Months leading up to baby? Doctor&#x27;s appointments increasing to weekly, potential health issues that impact work and life.<p>Month 1? Way less organized: pretty much random bands of sleep, feed, care throughout the 24h cycle.<p>Month 2? I would love to meet the parents who get 8 hours of sleep in Month 2.<p>Month 3–6? Yeah, getting better, but still a lot of chaos.<p>Oh, and this is 7 days a week. No Friday nights or weekends, folks.<p>Having a kid is a massive life change, and a massive commitment. I emphasize this for two reasons. 1) We as a working society still massively under-support working moms (and dads). And 2) I don&#x27;t want anyone getting depressed when their post-kid life isn&#x27;t nearly as organized as the one laid out here.<p><i>(Inevitable disclaimer: Am man supporting a 8-month pregnant, working partner, along with two other kids.)</i>
pixel_fckerover 5 years ago
looking at the amount of time she’s tagged as sleep all I can think is that she has no idea how easy she’s got it.