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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't be a SAHM. That requires much higher energy than if you were to work at an office job full time and get a nanny. [/quote]

It requires a different type of energy. Being a sahm parent is exhausting and hard, but it’s also hard to balance all of the things you can’t/don’t want to outsource in raising your kids plus the drain of a full time career. I wfh full time, have a nanny and two young kids, and balancing it all is a LOT. Even with childcare I am still doing all the shopping, cooking, most of the cleaning (cleaners clean every two weeks), holiday planning, activity planning, school stuff, packing whenever we leave the house, plus working full time- having to intellectually focus on that each day- plus spending the time I genuinely want to spend, fully available, for my kids. Forget taking care of myself bc that’s on a total back burner. I also thought I wanted three but balancing two has been a lot.

Op would probably do best quitting her job for awhile and getting some help with young kids regardless of whether it’s 2 or 3.[/quote]

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