Tag: infant

• 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

• 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