How do you juggle WFH with a baby?

I'm sure that some people are able to make it work, but in general the answer is: you don't. Taking care of a baby is a full time job in and of itself, associated with frequent interruptions and sleep deprivation.

Impossible without either harming your own wellbeing, the child's or both. And I suspect the quality of your work, even if you somehow manage to somehow pull it off, would be very badly affected. Caring for young children, let alone babies is an intense, full time job.

You take parental leave or your wife/husband does. How do you go into work and manage a baby at home. You don't.

Feels like this only works if your bosses (your spouse and employer) are willing to acknowledge the realities of WFH with a baby. Otherwise, forget it.

Long time ago but I found you can write quite a bit of code with a baby balanced on your lap late at night.

When I learned juggling it was years before I was confident enough to juggle babies

The reality is that raising a baby requires full time attention of one person and really even more than what one person can give. Our social and economic systems have not evolved to recognize this reality and support it properly. Even with one person full time, you do need help to catch up on chores or to just take a break or to keep yourself in a good mental state. Otherwise, you aren’t going to be able to give what is needed. Anything less, and you are <i>definitely</i> dropping the ball SOMEWHERE to make it work - you’re either hurting your own health or depriving your child of parenting&#x2F;attention or whatever else. There’s no shortcut and I simply do not believe anyone says everyone just makes it work. Sorry they only do that by providing a reduced amount of parental attention to their baby, full stop.

This is totally possible as long as you don&#x27;t have a colicky baby, you have flexible work and a supportive partner. Newborn sleep 12-16 hours a day, you work while the babies are sleeping.<p>When I did it, I got about 4 hours of work done during the 9 hours of my partner&#x27;s work+commute and another 4 after my partner came home.<p>One indispensible tool was the combination of a standing desk and a front carrier. My baby slept well in that. Another trick was to take them to the park, tire them out and then they&#x27;d fall asleep in the stroller on the walk home. Park the stroller in the back yard and pull out your laptop and work in the back yard.<p>And one of the newborn naps should be a parent nap too, since you likely didn&#x27;t get a solid 8...

Is this from the view of a single parent?<p>Really the only answer is to hire a nanny&#x2F;au pair for your working hours.

You don&#x27;t. You need a good partner who is going to support you during the time you are going to take care of the baby.

I don&#x27;t juggle. At all. When I am WFH I am at work. My office is in the basement, separated from our living space. My wife is a stay-at-home mom, and I took 12 weeks off each time when 2 of my babies were born. Even with these advantages, parenting is hard work. We are certainly blessed. I can appreciate now the recommendation to &quot;Embrace the phase&quot;. It&#x27;s a precious period of time and I only get to enjoy them like this and give them these memories one time. Who cares if the house is a mess? I&#x27;m reading them a book instead.

Short answer: you don&#x27;t - it&#x27;s no different than if you worked in an office.<p>(most companies don&#x27;t allow bringing your baby to the office, why would WFH be any different)

You don&#x27;t and this is one of the reasons why we who can work and hustle as hard as in the office from anywhere have to RTO ultimately.

Why is this even a question? WFH doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;work from home while simultaneously doing household tasks, meal prep, laundry, and childcare&quot;. If you aren&#x27;t able to do your job for 8 hours a day without distractions – whether from home or the office – then you should be taking a leave of absence or coming up with an alternate arrangement with your employer.<p>Articles like these are exactly why companies are reconsidering their remote work stance.

Living in abject chaos and constantly being surprised how little sleep you actually need.