Feasible to work from home alone with 1-year-old baby?

[LadyJ107]

Hi ladies, given the eye-watering cost of nurseries, how feasible would it be to work from home alone when my maternity leave finishes? Would it be too stressful trying to work and look after a baby aged 1? (I'm a business analyst). Does anyone have experience of this?
Thanks in advance!

I tired and it was awful. Got furloughed and then sacked but felt relief more than anything as don't have to do that now

Not fair on your child.

Your mental health would quickly suffer.

And you’d be taking the piss with your employer. I wouldn’t allow someone in my team to do that because as a parent I know how completely unrealistic it is!

I hope this is a joke! How old is your baby now? This post can only be written by someone who has a very small baby / hasn't given birth yet / is totally delusional about the attention requirements of a 1yr old!

Nursery costs are massive yes, but they aren't forever. Once the child goes to school breakfast and after school club or using a childminder for wraparound care gets more affordable, minus the holidays but again, this gets cheaper as they get older too.

I know one woman who has managed it (amidst about a hundred mums who would find it totally impossible!)

She’s coped by

• reading up on Montessori methods, Janet lansbury, and creating a “yes space” in the living room (ie a very large playpen with different toys that the baby can play with alone without adult help)
• her husband also works from home so they can juggle nappy changes, toddler tantrums etc depending on who’s busier right
• they both have flexible jobs that don’t need lots of concentration, don’t involve a lot of calls, and can be finished off in the evenings once the kid is asleep, and
• their kid is (so far) pretty tranquil and happy to potter about. That can change very quickly though. Any day of teething/feeling a bit ill/developmental leaps etc and the kid (now 2.5) spends the whole day needing constant attention.

So...it’s in theory possible if everything is set up right and the stars align, but it’s very difficult and you’d need help.

Not a chance for a practical point of view. Not sure if you are a contract BA or work for a company but although you might get your hours done there would be no predictability, so I wouldn’t support it.
Also, if you work in a team it wouldn’t be great.
Just not in the corona virus I think everyone is compromising but I don’t see that is sustainable longer term even if people work from home more in the future. You need to find childcare.

Well, you wouldn't be able to do this without being fired in any team where we've had a BA. If you're a technical BA, your head needs to be in the detail, and although you might be focused on a technical solution, fuck ups really matter if they make it through to implementation or a third party. Or if you're more of a process BA, you need to understand workflows or possibly deal with a lot of stakeholders/stakeholder management whilst understanding the bigger picture and being the go to person for the gritty detail. there's no way you can do that from home with a 1 year old. no way. at all. you'd get sacked pronto.