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[quote=Anonymous]Just make sure you have a supportive work place and flexible hours. ExDH I had had DD in our late 20s, both made around 100K in federal positions.  Our jobs allowed for relatively flexible schedules and we found a lovely inhome daycare center in our neighborhood that was affordable.  We worked hours that allowed one of us to do drop off and the other pick up so we each worked full days. We also had option to work flexible schedules of longer days for less days per week/pay period.  It was very doable in this area (prepandemic) bc childcare centers are used to two working parent households with commutes, so the hours allowed for that.

As far as sleep, we were lucky and DD slept through the night fairly early, but the trick is to swap out and share the burden. When DD was an infant, we would both wake up so one did the diaper, the other the bottle, so it wasn't a longer stretch awake and we would swap so one parent wasn't always waking up.

The key is a supportive workplace and a supportive spouse.[/quote]

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