Spill the Baby Tea with Helen: The First Week of Daycare Wrecked Me

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Melody, Helen, and Janet

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

I knew I’d be emotional the first week of daycare, but I didn’t expect to be an emotional WRECK and sick for weeks! Okay, I don’t want to scare anyone from putting their child in school because stay in school kiddos, but I did want to capture what it was like to send our little one into the WILD of the school environment. I share sick kid tips that other mama friends have shared with me that have been SUPER helpful for us, about how we prepared our brave lil warrior the weeks leading up to daycare to ease some of that inevitable separation anxiety, about the tearful goodbyes, and the surprising turning point that left me in a puddle. It’s an intense milestone of parenthood. Now that we’re a month in, we have newfound strength from enduring the process, and I could not be prouder of our little one (and me!), but damn, was it tough to get here. As promised, here are the links to the products mentioned in the episode! (these are affiliate links): Sick kiddo must haves First day of school – books, lunch, label maker If you resonated with this episode, share in the comments of AsianBossGirl’s latest Instagram post, linked here! Would love to hear any of your cold and flu season tips! __________________________________________ Host: Helen Wu Editor: Victoria Cheng __________________________________________ P A R T N E R S • BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month with code “ABG” at betterhelp.com/ABG __________________________________________ C O N N E C T W I T H U S • Subscribe and Follow us @asianbossgirl on Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/YouTube/Instagram/Twitter/Facebook • Listener Survey: Let us know your thoughts on the podcast here • Shoutouts: Give a shoutout on the podcast here • Email: [email protected] __________________________________________ S U P P O R T U S • Merch: asianbossgirl.myshopify.com • Donate: anchor.fm/asianbossgirl/support • More about us at asianbossgirl.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Phil the baby T, a podcast where we can only talk about all things motherhood and parenthood. My name is Helen Wu Wang. I'm a mom to a 26 month old baby boy and I'm here to create a space where we can all
0:23.5	share connect and feel a little less alone. On today's episode I am going to
0:27.8	recap what the first week of daycare was like for us. Our first time
0:32.0	sending our baby boy out into the wild.
0:35.0	Honestly, there are so many things I didn't know, didn't expect, shocking realities that
0:41.0	I'm accepting and conforming to and just overall how I feel now that we're about a month in is something that I am excited to share with you all
0:50.0	to all the parents out there we are in together, so let's get this episode started.
0:55.0	As with every episode of we are going to start with our giggle and
1:05.3	drool of the week. Starting with our drool. Our whole household is sick right now. You can
1:12.4	probably hear it in my voice. I think this was also my last
1:16.0	episode's drool so I might sound like I'm just repeating myself here but this is just
1:20.9	where we are in in our phase of parenting and raising a kid who is just
1:24.8	starting to enter the school environment.
1:27.5	The biggest drool right now is that every morning for the past week, our baby has been waking up in the
1:32.1	middle of the night at 3 a.m. or at 5 a.m.
1:35.4	you hear this high-pitched scream and he's just clawing at his eyes which are
1:40.0	sealed shut with hardened eye floaties and it's just like the saddest sound and the
1:44.9	saddest vision and he's gotten a little bit better now but every time I saw him in that
1:49.8	state I always thought about that Stewie clip from Family Guy, you know the one where he goes,
1:54.8	oh, Squiggly Lying in my eye fluid, and it's like a whole ass poem dedicated to his roaming eye
1:59.7	floating and how it keeps disappearing when he tries to look at it, but then when he ignores it is when it finds itself
2:04.6	and the center of his eye, I imagine that if my child could communicate his thoughts, this is definitely
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