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    I don’t get it

    @15gb2 This sounds completely ridiculous but hear me out. 9 hour time change. lol. We lived in the Middle East for the first 18ish months of my son’s life and came back to the USA to visit family every 6-8 months. Resetting the clock every so often prevented a lot of the major sleep...
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    How do you accomplish the mindset change to be comfortable/confident in your decision to be a SAHP?

    @oddduck123 Oh I have a TON of trauma and, don’t really have a relationship with either of my parents due to other situations. But I don’t put up with shit in the same way and am low key terrified of going thru the newborn phase again. But it’s only one more time than I’m done.
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    How do you accomplish the mindset change to be comfortable/confident in your decision to be a SAHP?

    @oddduck123 For the SaHW part it was interesting. I had to have a TON of faith in my husband, it was hard and frankly only bc of the style of work contract did I agree to the ‘ get married and move to a Muslim based country’ . We had both been married and divorced previously, and after about a...
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    How do you accomplish the mindset change to be comfortable/confident in your decision to be a SAHP?

    @oddduck123 I feel that our situation was weird due to the circumstances. I was dating my husband and he was offered a position overseas in the Middle East. We would need to get married for me to enter the country. Spouses get non working visas, so I would have to quit my job for him to take the...
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    When do you have appointments for yourself??

    @barry61 Do you have a wagon? It works about half the time for us. Toddler knows he needs to stay in it if we’re in an office, but the draw of new things is strong. Maybe found a dentist with Saturday hours? That’s what I ended up doing as it’s easier for my husband to guarantee that he will...
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    When do you have appointments for yourself??

    @barry61 How young is the at home child? Depending on if your husband can make time for you to go to an appointment you have 2 other options. Bring them with you or hire a sitter. I have one morning a week that my 2 yr old is in mom’s day out that I can make appointments for myself, and...
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