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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay home. It's absolutely insane to work for $35k a year and pay daycare $2k a month with aftertax money. You will never see your baby. Babies sleep around 7-7.

You do everything anyway. I would suggest hiring a babysitter once a week so that you can take some time for yourself. [/quote]

Why don’t you take the daycare expenses out of her Dh’s $200,000 income instead of her $35k share?[/quote]

OP here.  So [b]after tax[/b] math.

156k (DH) + 21k (me!) = 177k combined after taxes estimated from current paychecks

Daycare will be about 26k (2200 x 12 months).  I assume a nanny will be more, but considering as more flexible.

So, math is that we'd have 151 take home if I work.  Or if I don't work, take home is 156k although I don't know how taxes will change with 2 dependents.

I'm struggling to see how my working is best financially.  I could be wrong here, but I'm personally not seeing it. 
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The math makes sense. Unless you love your job and see it having great upside staying home is an easy decision. If you find that staying at home isn't for you after all you can always go back to work.  [/quote]

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