My son made it through his first week of daycare but I barely survived
When my son was a few weeks old, I often fantasized about escaping from my new life as a parent. I dreamed about being able to shower without hearing piercing baby wails from down the hall, and about going out for dinner and a movie with my husband like we did in our carefree former lives. As I wrestled with the demons of postpartum depression, I even daydreamed about getting hit by a car, resulting in injuries just bad enough that I had to stay in the hospital, where I?d be able to sleep and have someone bring me food.
Almost two years later, I found myself preparing to send my son to daycare for the first time. I was at long last going to get some independence back, which I had craved so badly during all those endless days and nights of monotony. But instead of relief and excitement, all I felt was dread and sorrow. My son and I had spent every day together, and in the process, had become inseparable, each of us an extension of the other. And now I was going to leave him?my heart?with someone else. Cue the ugly cry meme.
After agonizing over the decision of where to place our son for his first foray into the land of childcare, we settled on a small home daycare. In preparation for the transition, I inundated my son with books from the library about going to daycare. Look how much fun they?re all having! Daycare is the most magical place in the world and you?re going to love it! He seemed to be buying what I was selling, clapping happily and procl...
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