Tag: COVID-19

• Daycare in Covid Times: A Challenge

  

  A Difficult Decision Sending my son to daycare was a hard decision. We didn’t have another alternative and it wasn’t by choice. I had already extended my maternity leave and it came the time that I needed to go back to work. It is harder for me than it is for my husband. If I […]

  Melanie B

  February 4, 2021

  Family, Journal Entry, Personal

  anxiety, babies, baby, canada, care, challenge, confinement, COVID-19, covid19, decisions, experience, feelings, health, infant, journal, learning, living, loneliness, mom, mom guilt, momlife, momstruggle, pandemic, panic attack, Parenthood, parenting, parenting struggles, personal experience

• Feeling Pushed to the Wall…

  

  Well, it happened. The news I didn’t want to hear. Two cases of covid-19 have been reported in my son’s daycare.

  Melanie B

  December 10, 2020

  Family, Journal Entry, Personal

  anxiety, COVID-19, losingcontrol, momlife, momstruggle, pandemic, panic attack, stress, thoughts

• We Have to Keep Ourselves Healthy for our Little ones

  

  When I became a mom 10 months ago, I promised myself that I will keep myself healthy as much as possible for my son. I want to make sure I live long enough to see my son grow and have kids of his own. By the time he’s 30, I will be 70. Let me […]

  Melanie B

  October 28, 2020

  Personal

  COVID-19, daily life, keep active, lifestyle, mom guilt, momguilt, motherhood, pandemic, self-sabotage, struggles, wellnesswednesday

• Things don’t always work out they way you imagined them to be…

  

  Having a baby is difficult enough, but never in the world I would have thought of raising a child during a pandemic… It is just making it even more difficult… If we could pause the newborn stage until this mess is over it would be fine, but now that my little guy is 7 months […]

  Melanie B

  July 13, 2020

  Family, Personal

  baby, confinement, COVID-19, covid19, infant, inthistogether, life, Parenthood, parenting, struggles

• Life in confinement…

  

  So many things has happened and is happening this year and we have to enjoy it in confinement… Can I say enjoy… not really. This social distancing is taking a toll on us. It certainly not what I was expecting for my maternity and parental leave… Last month was my husband 40th birthday and we […]

  Melanie B

  May 7, 2020

  Personal

  canada, celebration, confinement, COVID-19, social distancing