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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I understand that you dislike your job and profession, that you desperately want to be home with your baby and that they are only young right now.  Sometimes it's totally worth it to seize the moment and go with your gut.  We only live once after all.

I would encourage you however to try and take the long view.  First of all, you have some flexibility as a lawyer--as others have noted, you can do part-time work that I imagine is quite different than the work you do now.  Do not immediately write it off.  It may not be the most fulfilling experience ever but it will bring it what sounds like needed income and still allow you plenty of time with your kids.  And who knows, you may be surprised to find that you enjoy adjuncting, or something else you haven't tried before.

I will also say, as a mom of elementary schoolers--I and many others I know felt a much stronger desire to be there for our kids as they got a little older, and in some ways found it even more difficult to juggle the demands of full-time work at that stage.  I understand the "birth to 3" mentality, but it's not like there's some switch that goes off then--in the child's brain, or for you as a parent.  Your plan to launch into a new career in five years time may prove far more difficult or far more distasteful to you than it seems right now.

I would encourage you to look for part-time work in your field, which I presume will pay far more than the nannying you describe and will give you more flexibility.  I really think you are idealizing the nannying idea--it's HARD work, two babies are a lot harder than one, you may wind up resenting the setup especially if it prevents you from spending time with your daughter, and your DH may become frustrated when you bring in far, far less money than you do now but pick up none of the household tasks that most SAHMs take on.  You are basically talking about switching to a far less lucrative career when you don't have to, to still get a lot of what you want.

Good luck![/quote]

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