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In Good Hands
How to Prepare for Leaving Your Baby with a Caregiver
By Megan Fowler
Your baby is due any day now. The nursery has a fresh coat of paint, a polished wooden crib and the afghan your grandmother knitted. You've prepared mentally and financially to take time off from work and readied yourself for maternal life. But then what? Instinctively, you believe you are the only person who can take best care of your baby. But there comes a time when you need to take control of your life with that same degree of attention. Be it going back to work or just taking time away from the baby to get things done, there comes a time for many new moms when leaving the baby with someone else is the only option.
When Kristie Kuhl and her husband found out they were expecting their first child, they were shocked. "We had just moved, I was starting a new job and my husband had just entered graduate school," she explains. "It all happened at a somewhat chaotic time." Like many surprised parents, early childcare quickly became an issue for them. They looked into hiring a nanny and began researching daycare options, but the couple realized the cost would exceed the cost of losing one income. So they came to an agreement. "During my pregnancy, I thought that I would probably like to continue working after giving birth, so my husband agreed to stay home with our son."
After her six-week maternity leave, Kuhl began commuting to New York City for work as planned, and her husband was able to set time aside each day at home for his graduate work. And even though the couple is happy with their situation, Kuhl says she sometimes wishes she were home. "It was hard to leave at first. My husband will call me during the day to tell me something the baby did, and I get a little sad," she says. "But I am happy to know James is with his daddy instead of a stranger."
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