![]() ![]() ![]() I think you will find that working 12 hr shifts will give you more family time. but night shift is great, you can totally make it work, and one day a week with little sleep is totally do-able as long as it's not all the time so your body can get rested and recharged. Like the other posts have said, you NEED sleep. I've been told that it's okay to do that some, but definitely not every shift. usually the day after their last shift that they have to stay awake to watch their kids, or to try and switch to days. Almost every mom that I work with will have at least 1 or 2 days a week that they are on VERY little sleep. As long as you have a way to sleep between shifts, whether your child goes to school or has someone at home to watch them so you can be left alone, you should be fine. I work with a lot of moms who work nights, and have asked many of them how they do it, because I am planning on having kids myself. I love working nights, I like the flow of night shift while I'm at work, and the pay increase. I definitely plan on staying with night shift. I do not have kids yet, but we are planning on getting pregnant and I will hopefully switch to two 12 hour night shifts per week. I've been working night shift for the past 3 years. How many shifts will you be working per week? How many days per week do you homeschool your 9 year old? Will your shifts vary each week, or is it a set schedule? Is your spouse home during the day when you need sleep, or do you have family/sitter/daycare as an option? Moral of the story: It is possible to have a good sleep schedule, even with rotating shifts but you really need to have a good plan in place for your kids during the day because lack of sleep will make you crazy!! After that we started getting a sitter, I have not had problems since. I ended up calling my husband crying and asking him to come home because I didn't feel safe. After a couple of weeks I started having intrusive, disturbing thoughts during the day that I didn't sleep. When I first went back to work after Mat leave we decided to save money and facilitate more time with baby by not booking a sitter after my last night, after all, it's not like I had to go back to work. I can't imagine that even the most self-restrained 9 year old is capable of keeping quiet all day or choosing to let mom sleep if s/he has a need.Īnd you need sleep. Many people who work nights will tell you that our adult friends and family have difficulty with the concept that they cannot disturb us on these days. I think that this could be a real problem if you don't. So further info here: do you have a place that your child can go to hang out and do schoolwork on the days after your nightshift? I think the key piece of information here is that you are homeschooling a 9 year old! I know the amount of effort that takes and presume that means you have a 9 year old home in your house where you need to be sleeping all day. ![]()
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