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Can you help with my separation anxiety?
I’m an online college student, and stay at home mom to the most beautiful 6 month old in the world. I’m on spring break, and yesterday Haleigh and I took a tour of the YMCA, and I bought a membership. They offer babysitting for up to 2 hours while you work out. I was so excited about it yesterday… now today comes and I’m worried. I don’t want to break her out of her routine… what if she thinks I’m abandonning her? What if they let her cry? What if an older kid comes and bonks her on the head, and mommy’s not their to kiss it and make it better???!!! Help! I know this has gotta be normal, but can you all talk me into getting off my butt and going to work out… and quit turning my baby girl into a hermit like her ole mom?? Thanks!! (PS… I’ve obviously never left her with a stranger before… only my hubby when I go to town to get groceries!)
I used to go to the YMCA, and I used the babysitting service when my baby was old enough- six months, I believe?
The first time I left him there, he screamed bloody murder for about 20 minutes. I was in the pool, and they paged me to come get him. I ran down there, soaking wet- and he stopped right before I reached the door. I kind of ‘lurked’ around the area for another 15 minutes, within earshot, but out of his sight. He finally went to sleep.
Needless to say, the remainder of my workout was ruined- I couldn’t concentrate, and ended up changing and going back to get my content, sleeping baby.
This is not to suggest your child will do this; just be prepared for it, if it happens. The women who work in the babysitting area asked me if I’d like to be paged if he cried for longer than a few minutes, and I said yes. They are quite used to screaming infants and will do their best to console them. They would have kept him without paging me; I chose not to let them.
There is enough staff members in there, that some mind the older kids, and others mind the babies. I stood in the hallway and watched them fuss over my baby, and rock him to sleep. They did a great job- I was even a bit jealous.
Leaving a six month old baby with strangers s always harder on the mom than it is the baby. Chances are, she will appreciate and enjoy new faces, new surroundings, new toys etc. Also, there are other children playing in there and, n my experience, babies loooooove the sound of kids’ voices.
Overall, my YMCA experience has been excellent, with the staff and the babysitting room. You are free to check on your baby any time, and they’ll give you a detailed report of how things are going. Trust me, if it’s anything they can’t handle, they will page you immediately. They do a fine job of protecting babies from older kids, too…the nursery is separate from the play area, and stocked with cribs, playpens etc.
After my workout, I would always take baby for a swim. I’m an overworrier, and it alleviated the ‘guilt’ of leaving him in the kids’ area…
All in all, baby was happy and I was healthy. Now I have to drag my son out of there. Baby will be fine.
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Need some advice?
So I am six weeks pregnant w/ my first. I am a avid runner…since I found out, everyone I know is like, “don’t run anymore” or “just walk instead!” or I will hurt the baby. I havn’t talked to my doctor yet, which I wont see for another month. I am going nuts! I need to get out and run!!! Walking just doesn’t do it for me. I can’t stand not doing something like running for the next nine months. Please, anyone think it’s okay to run. I wouldn’t even mind getting a gym membership to do the eliptical. I just need some say, I went running yesterday (20min so slow) but after I was so worried…it’s not worth it for me to worry though…
Running is fine if you do it regularly before you become pregnant. I ran marathons before getting pregnant with the second and the doctor said my baby was so cushioned by the amniotic fluid and body, that I couldn’t hurt my baby! I no longer run marathons because my body cant handle it, too many surgeries. You can call your doctors office, but they allow you to do exercises, rock climbing, and laying on your belly while you are pregnant, so it should be fine. I also went sky diving at 4 months pregnant one time. It was a blast! Good luck
Andy Favre – Come On Baby
