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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a woman who does this but she is very wealthy.  She has a full time housekeeper who also acts as house manager as well as a personal chef who comes in once a week and makes five dinners for the couple and a few dishes for their now toddler.  The woman says she does less "housework" than she did when she was single.  [/quote]

I think if you can't afford this scenario, then you're not going to be happy.

Having a weekly cleaning service with a baby and you expecting all extraneous messes to be cleaned by your husband is unrealistic.  And trust me, there will be messes!  Like when you are changing your kid's diaper and you and everything around you gets covered in projectile diarrhea.  Are you going to just let that mess stay until your husband is home?  Or when your kid is a toddler and learning to feed their self and every other bite is thrown around the room.

Even if you are the one getting up each night with a fussy baby, your husband, assuming he doesn't sleep like a rock, will still wake and take time to fall back asleep, which will mean he's not functioning at 100% the next day at work.  That makes him tired, which makes him just want to come home and crash at the end of the day, not do laundry and clean messes from hours before.

I think it sounds realistic and good in your heads now, but at first time parents, you have no idea.  I think this scenario will lead to tension and resentment.  If he's always cleaning and doing chores, when is he bonding with the baby?           [/quote]

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