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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I have always split the household chores equally.  I want this to change when I stop working after our child is born - I want to do less.  We have a cleaning service that comes in once a week and do a lot of ordering of supplies online.

Basically, I want to do only what a good nanny would do in terms of spending all the baby's waking hours engaged with her and her napping hours either napping myself or doing her chores (baby's laundry, food prep, etc).  I want to do classes with my child, go on play dates and not think about the house at all.

Is this possible?   DH is all for it right now but...   [/quote]

yes many SAHM also have a housekeeper come 2-5 days a week to do laundry, cleaning, organizing, filing, put things away, food prep, errands. 
so one person is tending to the children and the other to the home. works this way until fulltime school starts really.

Enjoy your young child/children! The days are long but the years are short![/quote]

Um, I would say that quite a few SAHMs have a weekly or biweekly housekeeper.  A small handful may have a housekeeper 3-5 times a week (I have actually never seen that myself).  But the vast majority of SAHMs do their own housework.  They might get a sitter for their kids every now and then but I've never met a SAHM with a nanny.  [/quote]
+1 it never occurred to me to even get a housekeeper while I stayed home bc I felt that that was part of my job, along with taking care of kids, cooking, etc
However, we did live in another state where nannies are nonexistent [/quote]

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