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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have three kids and no help and a full time job and I also volunteer in the community and find it all manageable. And honestly I have a next door neighbor with one five year old who regularly seems ready to pull her hair out and I kind of look at her like 'really?'

But the fact is that every person is different and what one person can handle and be happy doing is not what another person can handle and be happy doing.

I do not think cutting your income in half is going to help ANYTHING. It sounds like you shouldn't have a third, or like you should wait a few years so you have kids more spread out and less needy. There's no shame in that and you do your husband and your kids a service by knowing your limits and staying within them. [/quote]

Right? She wants to give up half her income and her nanny. I don’t think she even realizes the stress of being with young kids all day vs. working. And I say this as a WAH mom of 3. My work days with quiet mornings drinking coffee on the sun porch while checking emails, then going to the gym on my lunch break, are SO much less stressful than even a long weekend with 3 kids at home. I can’t imagine going from working to being home with 3 kids including a newborn overnight. With less disposable income on top of it all!

Unless OP were proposing leaving big law or something, I don’t see how switching from a flexible WAH job to SAHM with an extra kid would be less stressful. [/quote]

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