Anonymous wrote:If a new baby is 100% increase in workload, you should be working two times the amount you were working before. If you are working the same hours, how is it possible, unless half of your day, before, was spent doing nothing?

More work, definitely yes, no question. But people who come on this board and say it's double the work just seem silly/mathematically challenged. It doesn't help the argument, and works against you (because everything you say is automatically discounted).

Just say it is requires additional skills, including multi-tasking, and a higher degree of flexibility and organizational skills, and therefore is worth more than only $1 per hour extra as compensation. Much better argument.