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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your infant takes a 2-hr am nap and a 2-hr pm nap, and sleeps like 11-12 hours a night, then your infant is only awake 9 hours a day.  All these folks saying, well my nanny only spent 3-4 waking hours with my kid...I mean, I get that "3" and "4" sound like small numbers, but it is a full 30-40% of your child's waking hours.  That's of course a meaningful difference in what you could be spending if you stayed home (and again, that's assuming you have a very good napper).

I'm a FT working mom, btw.  [/quote]

There are 168 hours in a week. 
Infants are awake for 63 of those hours. 
I see my kids 48 of those hours, you see your kid 63 of those hours.
I see my kids 28% of the time, you see your kids 37% of the time. 
It's 23% of their waking time... 15 hours.

Thanks for pointing out how little actual time is spent "raising" your kids.... lol 37% of your time. [/quote]

Well, first, like I said, I'm a FT working mom.  My kids are in ES now, but when my oldest was an infant we had a nanny.  I was gone from 8 to 4.  This DD actually was a "unicorn" napper who took an am nap from 9-11 and a pm nap from 1:30 to 3:30.  So I missed out on 3.5 waking hours of time with my DD M-F.  A lot of PPs (you included) think that is a small amount, but I don't think it is percentage wise.  It was like a full third to almost 40% of her 9 waking hours each weekday!  No one is raising their kids during their sleeping hours -- those 9 hours are all we have to work with and all that matter for this dicussion.  I missed out on a bit more than a third to 40% of them each day.  It's a lot to me.  (With my second I had a WFH job which meant my younger DD was with a nanny or later daycare more like 9 to 3:30, and I felt much better about that percentage of time away.)  But I guess it's all personal...[/quote]

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