At the start, for the first few weeks you'll probably have zero extra time to do any learning outside of work. The exception for me was when I would take our baby downstairs early in the morning if I woke up so that my wife could definitely sleep properly. He would carry on sleeping while I did some reading.
As time goes on they aren't generally so all consuming time wise.
The hard thing with current working from home is making sure that you make time to get out of the house during the week as your partner might not get the usual support that they would get from family and friends (depending where you live)
Super helpful. I am totally expecting that first few weeks to be a shit show. 🤣
How many weeks / months was it until they weren't so "all consuming time wise"?
Yea this idea of "getting out of the house" seems important, although a bit more challenging in a Pandemic. Luckily we've got a bit of family close by.
Good question, and I really don't remember. That's the other thing, time elapses in a very strange and different way. Especially when mixed with working from home!
It partly depends when you manage to put them down for daytime naps. Keep trying at that and it will (hopefully) suddenly be possible when it seemed impossible before. Then again every baby is different!
Maybe I can answer the weeks/months for you. The milestones for things getting progressively easier look something like this:
3 weeks (you are able to add more hours to your total sleep)
3 months (better sleep)
4 months (easier bonding as the baby starts interacting more, also more sleep)
6 months (pretty good routine at this point. As a mom, I was able to get even 5-6 hours of sleep. Mind you, mine was (and is) a pretty good sleeper, or at least consistent)
8 months (even better routine, outings are easier)
12 months (congrats, you have a toddler now!)
It helped me to look forward to these milestones when things were hard. Keep in mind, these are not set in stone, and every baby differs.
I found that in some ways, my productivity increased at work because I must accomplish certain tasks in a given timeframe (when the baby is sleeping, etc) because there is literally no other time to do it.
Mine is 1 year and a half now, first 11 months basically did not sleep...everyone baby is diff tho so hopefully you wont experience that. During those months he was up every 2-3 hours all day and all night.....so we would take turns on the night shift(hardest things ive ever had to do in my life). Flash forward to now things are way easier.... I work from home....and we take turns waking up with my son every other day, he gets up at 7am...i watch him till i start work at 830 and go into a different room that has a door. I pop out through out the day but mostly am able to focus on work. After work i take over until he goes to sleep which is 8pm then I have my free time, usually go to sleep around midnight. But I am not going to lie that first year will be challenging. Also during all this i started my journey to learn to code.
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At the start, for the first few weeks you'll probably have zero extra time to do any learning outside of work. The exception for me was when I would take our baby downstairs early in the morning if I woke up so that my wife could definitely sleep properly. He would carry on sleeping while I did some reading.
As time goes on they aren't generally so all consuming time wise.
The hard thing with current working from home is making sure that you make time to get out of the house during the week as your partner might not get the usual support that they would get from family and friends (depending where you live)
Super helpful. I am totally expecting that first few weeks to be a shit show. 🤣
How many weeks / months was it until they weren't so "all consuming time wise"?
Yea this idea of "getting out of the house" seems important, although a bit more challenging in a Pandemic. Luckily we've got a bit of family close by.
Thanks for the thoughts / tips!
Good question, and I really don't remember. That's the other thing, time elapses in a very strange and different way. Especially when mixed with working from home!
It partly depends when you manage to put them down for daytime naps. Keep trying at that and it will (hopefully) suddenly be possible when it seemed impossible before. Then again every baby is different!
Thanks ✌️
Maybe I can answer the weeks/months for you. The milestones for things getting progressively easier look something like this:
It helped me to look forward to these milestones when things were hard. Keep in mind, these are not set in stone, and every baby differs.
I found that in some ways, my productivity increased at work because I must accomplish certain tasks in a given timeframe (when the baby is sleeping, etc) because there is literally no other time to do it.
Mine is 1 year and a half now, first 11 months basically did not sleep...everyone baby is diff tho so hopefully you wont experience that. During those months he was up every 2-3 hours all day and all night.....so we would take turns on the night shift(hardest things ive ever had to do in my life). Flash forward to now things are way easier.... I work from home....and we take turns waking up with my son every other day, he gets up at 7am...i watch him till i start work at 830 and go into a different room that has a door. I pop out through out the day but mostly am able to focus on work. After work i take over until he goes to sleep which is 8pm then I have my free time, usually go to sleep around midnight. But I am not going to lie that first year will be challenging. Also during all this i started my journey to learn to code.