How Can I Make Up For Lost Time?

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Katy worries about the effects of putting her baby in childcare for the first 8 months of his life instead of giving him the full-time love and care that Dr. Laura implores all mothers to provide. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast you two can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 1-11
0:12.9	Katie welcome to the program. Oh
0:17.1	King tie I'm putting my child to bed. Hold on just a second. He's taking an ass. He's
0:21.4	I'm sorry about that. He's very getting
0:26.9	busy when I when you keep keeping him in your arms. Keep him in your arms.
0:39.8	Oh, that's okay. Hey, keep him in your arms. It works for my dog. Keep him in your
0:45.7	arms. I'll pick him up. No, if you apologize one more time, I'm going to pinch your head off and keep the kid. Okay.
0:55.7	Well, I just want to say that I listened to your podcast on when was it? I listened to it a little
1:04.6	late, but it was it was the stay at home mom. And I just had a minute to listen to it on Saturday. I didn't
1:18.4	listen to it the day you aired, but I just resonated with that. Oh, podcast. And I first off, I love how bold and
1:30.2	blunt you are. Yeah, I've heard that. And my mother-in-law's bold and blunt like that. So I appreciate when
1:41.6	people are like that. And okay, so I was listening to all of the interviews that you were doing and it just
1:50.8	resonated with me when you talked about how, you know, children they need their moms. And well,
2:00.2	unfortunately, I was a working mom up until last summer. My son was only eight months old. And I just
2:09.2	felt like God just put me in a place to just quit my job. And it actually was perfect because my
2:19.6	husband came home and just told me he was like, why don't you just quit your job? We'll figure this one income thing
2:24.6	out. And you just keep walker. And it was like a breath of fresh air for me because I was miserable at my job. And I was just
2:34.6	not happy. And I have this guilt like I'm just I have this guilt that I'm asking you. And do you think those first eight
2:47.6	months, is there a way to like recover from that for him? You're doing it now. You're doing it now. Stop looking backwards when you're driving a car forward.
2:58.6	Okay. You're doing it now. Okay. I don't want to hear anything that comes after just because all that is
3:11.6	self-anger. So don't do that. Okay. I just feel like shit. I just feel bad. I feel like a bad. I just I just nothing good comes after
3:21.6	I just so stop that. You're so right. Going forward. You're going forward. Your kid loves you. Just continue on. Okay.
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