Working moms! Who takes care of your baby?

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I have a month left till I return to work and I start to feel the need to quit my job and just be at home with my baby. I have my mom to help care for my LO when I return to work but I don't think she can handle it because of her age. Another option is to find a nanny/daycare but it's so expensive. I'll practically be going to work to pay for a nanny. Working Moms out there what did you do?

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It made zero sense for me to return back to work.  Trust me I was torn.  Part of me desperately missed my job , especislly the social aspect of it , part of me was devastated having to return to work.  With our first I returned to work part time for awhile.  By the time our second came around I literally would have worked for my white paycheck plus some to pay for daycare and then after school child expenses for our eldest....  on top of that we both realized we wanted to raise our own children and we were in a place in our lives where we could financially afford that better then daycare.  I'm pregnant again , yahoo , and there isn't a day I regret our decision . The family as a whole is so much less stressed . We don't have to figure out who needs to call out for sick days or if daycare is closed and I'm not working to pay for some kid to take my child.  For women who have to use daycare I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it. I was just saying what worked for my husband and I personally.  I love being a wife and mother.  I don't have to try and be superwoman anymore with the job and the kids and the house and the pets and the husband... ect . I was ripping my hair out at the end of the day.  Good luck to whatever you guys decided to do 💗💜😣💛💞💗💞💖💝💖

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I'm a full time mom and going to start working from home in a month or so. 😏

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I'm a working mom of 3. I have an amazing career and I've worked very hard for it. Right now, my husband and I work opposite shifts. I'm working from home 3-4 days a week too which has been great for breastfeeding. We have a sitter come over for 2-3 hours a day just to fill the gap between my shift ending and my husband commuting to work. It works really well for us.

I think it's natural to panic about going to back to work. Some women have the ability to stay home. With my first two kids I had no option. With my third child I did, but since I work from home so often now, it made it easier to go back. If you go back to work, everyone adjusts. Kids from working mothers generally are more successful when they are adults. It's not all bad

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It made zero sense for me to return back to work.  Trust me I was torn.  Part of me desperately missed my job , especislly the social aspect of it , part of me was devastated having to return to work.  With our first I returned to work part time for awhile.  By the time our second came around I literally would have worked for my white paycheck plus some to pay for daycare and then after school child expenses for our eldest....  on top of that we both realized we wanted to raise our own children and we were in a place in our lives where we could financially afford that better then daycare.  I'm pregnant again , yahoo , and there isn't a day I regret our decision . The family as a whole is so much less stressed . We don't have to figure out who needs to call out for sick days or if daycare is closed and I'm not working to pay for some kid to take my child.  For women who have to use daycare I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it. I was just saying what worked for my husband and I personally.  I love being a wife and mother.  I don't have to try and be superwoman anymore with the job and the kids and the house and the pets and the husband... ect . I was ripping my hair out at the end of the day.  Good luck to whatever you guys decide to do 💗💜😣💛💞💗💞💖💝💖

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I wonder what you ended up doing

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I'm a ftm now. I used to be a headstart teacher but, but we couldn't afford me to keep working. Now I watch 2 other babies along with mine in my home. Maybe you can find someone like me that you trust? The cost may be less

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I work 60plus hours a week. I run a assisted living facility I work the floor also 32 hours and then I’m on call fill in and administrator I went back at 5 weeks. It works cause my fiancee his dad works at the sister facility a different shift so he watches out so during the day and I watch him during the evening

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My husband is in between jobs right now and it didn't make sense for him to get a new job when we have a new baby.  So he will be staying home with our son.  I'm a RN who works night shift so it works out well. Eventually when our son is a little older my husband will go back to work part time and my mom will help out.  We've come to the conclusion that I more than likely will always make more money than him and I like my job, so I will be the income earner and whatever he makes will just supplement my income.

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We have a nanny that comes to the house, we pay her $800.00 a month

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My fiancé and I were lucky enough to have employers willing to work with our schedules so that we work opposite schedules.  We only have to have a relative look after our LO a couple days a week

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