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advice please?
Jan. 3rd, 2011 08:31 pmI've been called for jury duty on the 23rd of March.
This is soon enough that we know that it would be a pretty good day for Josh to work from home and, if I ended up on a trial, would be an okay time for him to take some vacation to take care of Juniper.
However, if I postponed until the fall, say October, there's a chance Juniper might be in all-day preschool three days a week, solving the childcare issue on those days, or even if she was just going a couple of mornings, it would still be a time he could get some uninterrupted work done. (She's not accepted anywhere yet; we're in the visits-and-applications process.) However, it might also be a much less good time for him to need to take time off (if, say, she ends up in the only-two-hours-a-week class), and we don't know the exact dates of his travel schedule.
To further complicate things, I've been thinking that I might try to wean Junie by the age of two, that is, the end of March, although right now she doesn't seem very ready (to me) to even drop down to one time per day instead of two. If I in fact only have to serve for a day, this won't be an issue, but if I ended up on a longer trial, it might be... or maybe she'd just move the afternoon feed to the evening and keep on happily. I don't even know. Or maybe me not being around during the day would actually make it *easier* for her to wean than if I'm sitting right there actively denying her. (Which I'm not sure I want to do, anyways... so far, cutting back on the number of feedings has been more a matter of postponing and distracting, but at this point, we've established pretty clearly that there is A Time when nursing happens, as a way of explaining why we're not doing it at any *other* time, so stopping doing it at that time is going to be a pretty stark change and I guess my best-case scenario is that *she* might seem less interested at some point. But I would like that point to be more like this spring than after that, so... I dunno.)
Anyways. Jury duty. A major part of me really just wants to do it now and get it over with rather than drag it out and deal with the uncertainty of October. But maybe gambling on October would pay off. Does anyone have any insight for me? I'm particularly interested in whether any former breastfeeders have thoughts about how possible weaning might play into going in March - or whether I'm way overthinking it and it won't be a big deal either way.
This is soon enough that we know that it would be a pretty good day for Josh to work from home and, if I ended up on a trial, would be an okay time for him to take some vacation to take care of Juniper.
However, if I postponed until the fall, say October, there's a chance Juniper might be in all-day preschool three days a week, solving the childcare issue on those days, or even if she was just going a couple of mornings, it would still be a time he could get some uninterrupted work done. (She's not accepted anywhere yet; we're in the visits-and-applications process.) However, it might also be a much less good time for him to need to take time off (if, say, she ends up in the only-two-hours-a-week class), and we don't know the exact dates of his travel schedule.
To further complicate things, I've been thinking that I might try to wean Junie by the age of two, that is, the end of March, although right now she doesn't seem very ready (to me) to even drop down to one time per day instead of two. If I in fact only have to serve for a day, this won't be an issue, but if I ended up on a longer trial, it might be... or maybe she'd just move the afternoon feed to the evening and keep on happily. I don't even know. Or maybe me not being around during the day would actually make it *easier* for her to wean than if I'm sitting right there actively denying her. (Which I'm not sure I want to do, anyways... so far, cutting back on the number of feedings has been more a matter of postponing and distracting, but at this point, we've established pretty clearly that there is A Time when nursing happens, as a way of explaining why we're not doing it at any *other* time, so stopping doing it at that time is going to be a pretty stark change and I guess my best-case scenario is that *she* might seem less interested at some point. But I would like that point to be more like this spring than after that, so... I dunno.)
Anyways. Jury duty. A major part of me really just wants to do it now and get it over with rather than drag it out and deal with the uncertainty of October. But maybe gambling on October would pay off. Does anyone have any insight for me? I'm particularly interested in whether any former breastfeeders have thoughts about how possible weaning might play into going in March - or whether I'm way overthinking it and it won't be a big deal either way.
