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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why the comments are so pissy. There are many careers that do require this type of schedule and I wonder if the comments would be the same if it were the dad working long days.

Anyway, OP, I would work on trusting your DH when he says he doesn't resent the current balance. Make sure you are recognizing his contributions. I would also try really hard to make sure you both have at least a couple of hours of downtime on the weekend, e.g., you take the baby Saturday morning and he has the morning to himself and he does Sunday morning. You do need a little time for yourself or you're going to crack. [/quote]

+100. It’s pretty sexist. She makes >250k and presumably likes her job. So what? And people are trying to offer her suggestions for working 35 hours a week and saving money to pay for state college? Lol ok, like if she wanted to go down that path sure she could but no one would offer these ideas to a man.

Op, I think people are probably reacting most strongly to you working 7-10 both AM and Pm on both weekend days. If you could cut that down (or work during nap) I think this would be fine and not unusual. You only have one kid that is an infant, it can go for walks / to the park as you want and leave the other parent with plenty of downtime during the weekend.

You should start to push back on extending the no-fly zone for bed/bath as you progress, because soon enough baby will be way more alert and stay up later[/quote]

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