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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]OP, you sound very young and naive for a physician.[/b] Are you a resident or fellow? Anyone with a child in daycare knows that kids get sick ALL the time. I may have missed what type of physician you are. Would you cancel and reschedule a full day of patients for a child home sick. Your kid(s) will be sick frequently for multiple days at a time. DH is a surgeon and my kids used to get sick all the time. They would take turns getting one another sick and I took every sick day for the kids because DH would not cancel a day of clinic or cancel surgeries because our kid is home sick with a fever.[/quote] NP. What an unnecessarily condescending remark to lead off with. The type of remark one might expect from a coat tail riding spouse with no particular achievements of her own. You sound exactly like a surgeon’s *wife*… [/quote] I earned more than DH when we got married. I do not identify as a surgeon’s wife. I reread my post and it didn’t read well. I was not trying to be condescending. OP probably is a younger physician since she is still having kids. Half the people we socialize with are physicians. When my husband was in residency, we put our name on a wait list for the daycare at the hospital/med school. We never got off that wait list and I would not have known that my kids would always be sick going to daycare. OP, you can make this work with a nanny and grandparents. I know one mom who has 4 kids and a non physician husband. The grandparents helped out a lot when kids were younger with a full time nanny. We know many dual physician, physician/lawyer, lawyer/banker type couples. Some have 2-3 nannies. One family we knew had 6. My ex had like a staff of 5. His dad worked a lot and traveled and his parents were divorced.[/quote]
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