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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This was basically us. Once the baby was a little older, we did shifts - H was on call until 2 am, and I did any wakeups after that. We are a night owl and early bird, so that worked fine for us.

We also tried not to fall into the trap of a zillion activities and running all over the place. You don't need to drag your baby to the fall festival AND the pumpkin patch AND take long fall hikes. If you love that stuff, great! But DC is super competitive parenting non-stop, and you can make yourself crazy trying to jam in all the activities and events and classes and sports. We took a more relaxed approach to our weekends and used that time to recharge. [/quote]

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