I'll shortly be returning to work after maternity leave and have agreed with work to reduce my hours to 21 hours, which can either be worked over 3 or 4 days. I've got a baby who will be going to nursery and a 3 year old who is at a nursery attached to a school, so does school hours and will be starting school next year.
I'm torn between working 3 full days and having a childminder collect him after school for those days, which I know he will find tiring as he is already exhausted at the end of the nursery day. Or I could work 4 shorter days, collect him myself but would have 1 less day to spend with the baby and would have to do one extra day of 2 lots of nursery drop offs and pick ups and getting to and from work which is tiring for me and takes up a fair chunk of time to do. I just can't decide which is best. I'm not sure if I'll just feel like I'm constantly in a rush to get somewhere of i do the 4 days, but will i miss not picking my older one up from school for those 3 days? Does anyone have any advice?