My Maternity Leave is Ending

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Nikki is considering some dramatic lifestyle changes to avoid leaving her 6-month-old baby to return to work. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:10.3	Serious XM Triumph 1 11 Nikki. Welcome to the program
0:17.4	Yes, ma'am, what's up?
0:20.0	Okay, I call you today because I and you take me off speaker phone. Please could you take me off speaker phone?
0:29.1	Sorry, it's a lot of speaker. I was in the elevator. It's getting outside. Can you read it? Oh, okay. Yeah, I think so. Go ahead. Sorry about that.
0:38.0	Okay, I'm calling you because my husband and I had our baby in March and I work at a company that's giving me an off in the term of a leave of six months.
0:51.3	And I go back to one side.
0:54.2	No, no, you don't. No, you don't sacrifice your kid for anything. You figure it out.
1:07.5	I, I totally agree with you and the caveat that I wanted your thought on is like my mom was nearby as she's grandma. I mean, I know how to be care about someone who was
1:18.2	and that's much better. I will grant you that's infinitely better. There is no short term. What do you mean short term? You're going to do it for 24 days? Well, we live in Southern California in order to live around here and be by my family.
1:36.2	We really need to income. Well, I guess you're going to have to move even though it's not the best idea to not be around family.
1:45.2	But it's more important that you be the mother that nobody else be the mother. I've had women call and writing me over the years where the nanny gets called mom.
1:59.2	Yeah, and I could never leave him with the nanny at all for child care. Like that would be I've lived anywhere before I do that.
2:05.2	You know, if it were just sort of let me frame it another way.
2:13.2	Babies growing into the age of three and four and such don't need just to be watched. Their brains are still developing.
2:24.2	Babies cannot roll over change channels on the TV. So that means their brains are very primitive.
2:33.2	And in order to get to the point where they can feel safe and secure and confident and loved and be willing to take risks, etc.
2:42.2	It requires the influence, the environment and the environment is basically you.
2:50.2	So it's not that you need somebody to watch your kid is we're talking about somebody who is going to direct the development of your child.
3:03.2	Yeah, so it's not just watching the kid.
3:09.2	Ma'am, I'm trying to explain something to you. You decided to have a baby when you didn't prepare financially.
3:18.2	Don't make the kid pay the price.
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