My wife and I have been together a decade and now have a 3 month old baby (14 weeks to be exact). It's been tough, especially recently. My wife took FMLA (3 months unpaid leave, standard in the USA) and went back to work 2 weeks ago. I didn't have any kind of leave to take beyond the 3 weeks PTO that I used right at the beginning with her so she could heal a little. We split night shifts now and both work 8 hour days with 1 hour commutes each way. It's hell honestly. Neither of us are sleeping. Baby is in daycare, thankfully our salaries cover that no problem.
My wife in particular is having a very hard time with the lack of sleep. She has already gotten a talking to from her boss about lack of performance/falling asleep at her desk/mixing up important things, etc. She drinks a lot of coffee and it doesn't have too much of an effect on her. She has constant headaches. And on Friday she fell asleep at the wheel.
I'm so happy that she was at least stopped at a light and all that happened was someone honking at her to move when it changed. She didn't get hurt. But I feel like something has to change, that we're on borrowed time. She insists it's not a big deal, that it won't happen again. I'm not crazy right? I need to do something to help. How do I talk to her about making changes? What changes do we even make??
tl;dr: sleep deprived parents are back at work, my wife fell asleep at the wheel and I'm so scared of losing her.
Submitted January 24, 2021 at 05:34PM by True_Investigator574 https://ift.tt/2KJ24xJ
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