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[quote=Anonymous]Let's imagine this (highly likely) scenario:

- mom had a baby 6 months ago. She lives in the city and has met a handful of other moms in mom groups. She went back to work when her maternity leave ended 3 months ago. No surprise, going back to work has been tough and exhausting and she and her husband haven't seen many friends or had many relaxing times in the past few months. Basically, the same as it was for all of us.  Add to boot, her husband has long hours and travels for work a lot (pretty common in DC), so mom is responsible for 100% of daycare pick-ups/getting home to relieve the nanny share and she's home by herself after work 50% of the time.  Her friends from grad school, who she used to do happy hours with every few weeks, and who are all child free and have professional careers, are going out tonight after work at 9pm. New mom considers these some of her best girlfriends and hasn't seen them in ages. She's also going crazy. They say "bring the baby!" "It's a super quiet wine bar filled with a handful of professionals!" Baby is generally well behaved in public and sleeps pretty consistently at 8pm every night, since mom is otherwise on such a great schedule.  Mom has a night time babysitter she could call, but they haven't really used the babysitter much yet (since baby is so young), and it's almost more trouble having to bring a new babysitter up to speed - how to feed, put to sleep, baby doesn't like to take a bottle from strangers, or go to sleep with anyone but mom...

Knowing the DC professional women scene, this seems a million times more likely to me than some layabout irresponsible single mom who hauls her baby to bars 6 nights a week.  [/quote]

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