after maternity leave<\/a>, I stretched my vacation hours as long as possible to give me what amounted to a part-time schedule for several months. Since she was still sleeping six hours during the day, my husband Ty had one afternoon a week where he worked from home. I had one full day a week where I worked from home. Then we used babysitters and relied on friends to fill the gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAll that made the working mom guilt almost nonexistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And sure, sometimes it was stressful to balance the work schedules and meeting requests for me and Ty, plus the school and work commitments of 2-3 babysitters. But I am so incredibly grateful<\/em> that we’ve been able to keep our child in a home environment with lots of one-on-one quality time.<\/p>\n\n\n