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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do what makes me happy and I'm happy for any other woman who gets to do what makes her happy, whether that is staying at home or having a career.

The only people who get worked up about this topic are those who are insecure with their own choice (or lack of choice, as the case may be).  [/quote]

Exactly. Hopefully most people can look back on their lives after raising their children and feel good about their choice. [/quote]

+100. The people on here who get angry and say judgemental and mean spirited things about other women’s choices around work, family size, type of school, etc must feel really insecure or conflicted about their own choices and instead of grappling with that are externalizing.  [/quote]

I’m the one who sent my older kids to daycare. Although they turned out great and probably benefit from my being home with them now, I feel guilt from when they were babies and toddlers. With my first, my mom watched my baby when I went back to work. I worked long hours and couldn’t breastfeed as long as I wanted. I missed many milestones. I switched to a more manageable 40 hours but it was still a lot of time away. I switched to PT (30 hours) and that was a good balance between work and kids but I still felt like I didn’t spent as much quality time with the kids. PT, almost FT, was the worst because I had this supposedly flexible job but basically I had to do FT work in PT hours and because I could work from home, I often did the work throughout the day and I was working at night after the kids went to bed. I did not enjoy any of those working situations.

I am much happier not working.[/quote]

I’ll never understand “I missed milestones”, did the kid stop taking steps the moment you walked in the door. [/quote]

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