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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God why do some of you have kids. Or continue to after struggling with the first 2? When my husband was in the navy for the first 6 years of our marriage we actively decided to wait until he got out so we wouldn’t deal with our kids playing musical caregivers [/quote]

1) Some of us would be well beyond childbearing years if we waited for our husbands to stop traveling.
2) Why would it be "musical caregivers?" The OP has had the same nanny for years, and there's no reason to think the new nanny won't stay, too.
3) The reality of dual working couples is the potential for long hours. If one parent is completely absent due to travel, someone has to be available for the other parent's commute + working hours.
4) When you don't live anywhere near family, you have to over-hire childcare to make sure you're covered in case of emergency. When my husband was deployed, I twice had to take a child to the emergency room. This would have been very difficult with the other three children if I hadn't had familiar caregivers who could come stay with them.
5) I'm the PP with 4 kids who had 3 caregivers while my husband was gone. I wouldn't do that again, but at that time I had a baby who was still up frequently at night, and older kid don't always sleep all night either, particularly when their world is upended; I hired against the possibility of several days in a row of total exhaustion, so that I could potentially nap during the day. It was the cost of sanity, and I'm glad I did it. I note that you didn't "tough it out" either; you opted against kids altogether.
6) Having a nanny, or multiple nannies/housekeepers means that I have a ton of flexibility, no kid has to spend hours in the car shuttling to another kids' practices, and there's always someone available so a parent can go to a school event. Once all the kids are in school, I plan to roll into a single housekeeper/afternoon sitter.[/quote]

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