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[quote=Anonymous]Do you already have a nanny now that you’d be keeping?

I SAH with a 30-hour per week housekeeper, plus a babysitter several days a week who works a flexible schedule. I prefer this to having a nanny because 1) I don’t want to do housework, and the housekeeper does everything from laundry and toilets to cleaning up breakfast and lunch dishes (she leaves mid afternoon), and 2) I didn’t want someone around ALL the time and our babysitter (who is a graduate student) likes working random hours - like, Monday and Thursday afternoon, Wednesday morning, and the occasional Friday.

Also, almost no one realizes our housekeeper comes daily a d it’s not unusual to have a weekly house cleaner, and lots of sahms have an occasional babysitter so no one blinks at that either.

Anyway as to making friends, get your oldest in a preschool that is either a co-op or has volunteer requirements. Schools really are the best way to build a community of parent friends.

And here’s good tips here for not losing yourself. I’ve SAH with far less help and the way people “lose themselves” is by having too much work and too little time to themselves. As long as you can afford help, and don’t hesitate to do so, it shouldn’t be hard to carve out time to focus on your own thing once in a while.

Good luck![/quote]

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