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[quote=Anonymous]I was laid off at work and am currently looking for another job (if it matters I'm typically an executive with a desk job).  I have a 15mo DS and am pregnant with my second.  My husband is able to support our family comfortably but I like working and generally planned to do it.

With my current time off I was kind of hoping I'd love being home and decide I just want to stay home until the new baby is 1 or so.  This would relieve the stress of trying to find a job before I look too pregnant as well as the toughness of going back to a job that I don't have a long track record at right after maternity leave with all the exhaustion and pumping that entails.

Day to day I kind of hate being home though - not the time with DS (though I struggle with how to feel our time after we have gone on an outing or two already that day) but the relentless of cleaning up after him.  I hate washing his high chair tray and the floor etc 3 times a day.  I hate all the dishes (when I work we have a nanny that takes care of it) and picking up toys, and general all the manual labor staying home entails.

I'm sure no one loves this part of it, but do you get more used to it?  Do you always hate it?  Did you never feel this way?  The relentlessness of cleaning up the same thing for the nth time that day is making me very eager to get back to work but maybe it just takes awhile to adjust to any major change like this?

I also find it very lonely but I'm assuming I'd make more sahm friends over time and that part would be solved for.

This is in no way a knock on SAHMs - its tough and exhausting!  Working is tough and exhausting!  Everyone with kids is doing a ton of work and both options can be great for parents and their families.[/quote]

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