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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's doable, but you will need to hire a nanny. (AP + daycare could also work, but you've ruled that out for now.)

My DH and I are similar-ish. He an ER doc at a major teaching center w/ admin responsibilities & active research, so he has a fair amount of scheduling flexibility way in advance and basically none at the last minute. He works 50-60 hours a week, including a number of nights and weekends. I am a government lawyer in a moderately-demanding position (50ish hours/week + a few days of travel every month or two) with flexibility within reason and an understanding boss. We have 3 kids under 5.

Our lives are insanely busy and would be actually impossible if we didn't have a nanny w/ a flexible schedule (50 hours/week). You cannot both have somewhat inflexible jobs and small children and use (exclusively) daycare w/o driving yourselves absolutely insane. Once that's covered, I think you can manage providing your job looks more like mine and less like big law ("flexibility within reason"), which it sounds like it does... but I can't be entirely sure. Also, you only have one kid, so that's way easier.

As an aside, you absolutely cannot schedule around your kid's bedtime being 6:30 long term. You'd need to block out 4:30-8ish if that was really your plan to get through the next few years.[/quote]

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