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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume that often the reason is that they no longer are comfortable with leaving their small infant in a daycare situation and have decided to care for the baby their self.

I am often amazed at how intolerant many on DCUM are of this phenomenon (wanting to care for your baby yourself) mostly because it is not what they chose, assuming they had a choice.  [/quote]

This. 6 pages into this thread and not one person has talked about what it is actually like to return to work after having a baby, and why for some women (who are fortunate to have the option), quitting to stay home is better than sucking it up to get through it.

Everyone is different and many moms welcome the return to work, but for some it's horribly painful and you wonder why you are putting yourself through it. I have never forgotten, a decade before I had a baby, discovering a woman from my law firm who had recently returned from maternity leave, just quietly weeping in the ladies room one day. I had no idea at the time what she was really going through, but I still think about her. She was a great lawyer and she a terrific colleague, and she toughed it out and got through. But a big part of me thinks that no woman, anywhere, should have to do that. They should just get to stay home until they are ready. And some women will never be ready and will quit instead, and I'm fine with that too.[/quote]

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