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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH is the breadwinner and I am a SAHM. DH gets home by 6pm on most nights. He works late 1-2 times per week and works weekends when he is on call. DH is a physician. He is at the hospital right now. We have dinner together usually 5 out of 7 nights per week.[/quote]

How many weekends a night is he on call?  We are looking at most nights home after bedtime and weekend works as startup ramps up.  It seems like that is pretty rare, even in big law or lobbyists; everyone I takes a dinner break.  But in tech you often are working problems as a team and the website/code debugging is hard to pause for a family break.

But for those with BigLaw or someone who misses dinner and weekends regularly, is anyone satisfied with the arrangement b/c they get to stay home and focus on kids?[/quote]

The only SAHM I know like this has a FT nanny. Seriously.[/quote]

My husband is a big law partner and we don't have a full time nanny. He tries to get home by 8 of 8:30 so he can do bedtime. I find that I don't mind doing dinner on my own for a toddler and an infant, but I really like having help with bedtime. When our second child was born, we did get a mother's helper who came from 5-8 to help with this period for the first few months. DH has to work weekends, but can get a lot done during naps and after bedtime, or I plan an outing with the kids for a few hours so he can get work done.

I don't think the arrangement would work for everyone, but you don't have to live everyone else's life. It only has to work for you and your husband. It works for us. [/quote]

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