Hubby and I both work from home. I get 12 weeks maternity leave, and he also gets 12 weeks paternity leave.

I am required to take my whole leave at one time, but hubby has the ability to stagger leave.

For seasoned parents or anyone with a good idea, what would be an ideal way to benefit from this? We were thinking 4 weeks of leave for him, then staggering the remaining in some fashion to extend it out (example 2 weeks on, off). Benefit is that when we start daycare at the end of my 12 weeks we don’t need full days right away or every day of the week. Can kind of ease into it.

This has been a tough one for us! Any thoughtful opinions welcome!! :)