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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you for all the responses. Neither DH nor I will leave our careers for ones with more flexible demands. We’re going to go with a full-time nanny plus use back up care and MIL if nanny is sick. Two days a week we do have a housekeeper and I’m going to talk to her about possibly doing a little childcare if something catastrophic happens to nanny, backup care and MIL on the weeks where DH is away. [/quote] Maybe I misunderstood your post, it sounded like you were asking when both have jobs don’t allow days off: [b]the answer is ALWAYS one of you changes to a job that does allow i[/b]t. What you don’t understand is how absent you will be from your kids life if you both work like that; the nanny years are actually the easiest schedule wise. And you keep talking about the nanny being sick — who cares for kid when kid is sick? Backup daycare won’t take them. Nanny may rightfully refuse. Elderly MIL seems like bad deal. I guess the nanny is your assumption, which really shows the kid that they are an accessory to your important life and career. [/quote] This is absolutely not true. Sure if you just have an unpleasant workplace you change jobs. I know dual-physician and dual-surgeon etc. families and they aren't just calling out sick all the time. They have nannies and backup care and it's really only extenuating circumstances that have them calling out sick. Not typical runny noses and stomach bugs and low fevers. I say this as a fed atty with a flexible job and I take plenty of sick leave. I prefer it. But others are making decisions based on their own fields and it's crazy to say ALWAYS about something like this.[/quote]
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