Both parents working with a baby. How do you do it? ?

Question

I'm asking a question out of curiosity. This is directed at parents who both worked before they had a baby. Now that you've had the baby, did you both go back to work? Did one of you stay home? If you both went back to work, what did you do with the baby?

Answer 1

my mom went back to work less than 2 months after having me.  they lived next door to my father's parents, who watched me a little bit, but they hired a babysitter (older woman, not a child) who actually watched me and my uncle at the same time.  

Answer 2

My sister and her husband worked very hard before they had their first daughter. They continued to work while she was pregnant and then when she had her baby they both went back to work. It was really hard for her to leave her daughter at daycare, but she did it. She worked until her 35th week of her second pregnancy with twins.

I am in school so when my baby gets here, she is going to be in daycare while I go to school.

Answer 3

Both my husband and I worked before our daughter was born and we both went back afterwards. My mother-in-law watches her and she only lives a few blocks away from my work, so I get to visit during my lunch hour.  

Answer 4

We work opposite shifts, so the kids were always home with a parent.  

Answer 5

My husband and I both work, but we're very fortunate that we mostly work from home. Our son is now almost 2, but we were able to divide the childcare duties when he was a baby (and still do now that he's a toddler). Our second child is due in February and we'll just keep dividing up the responsibilities.

To the judgmental idiot who gave almost all of us thumbs down, it must be nice to have the luxury of not working. I have to work. I have a kid to feed. Thanks for your judgment though. There really are some morons on Y!A.

Answer 6

My husband works as a computer analyst and I work as a teacher.  My son stays w/ my mother from 8:15-3:00 (M-F).  I pick him up everyday at around 3:30.  It works out fine for us.

Answer 7

I went back to work and my daughter is in daycare three days of week.  My husband and I work our schedules so one of us is home the other 4 days.  It has worked for us.  You do whatever works for your family.  

Answer 8

We had 4 kids and when I worked it was part-time and at night so I was home during the day when my husband worked and he was home at night.  

Answer 9

If you think that's difficult, try being a single mom with a baby.  Of course we have to work full time, because who else is going to pay the bills?

Oh, and the answer is daycare.  yeah, it sucks for a 6 week old newborn to be in daycare 40+ hours a week, but those darned bills don't go on maternity leave (though I wish they would!).

Answer 10

My husband and I both work, and plan to continue after I deliver. My mom will be our nanny...she is so looking forward to caring for her grandson! She is wonderful with children. Of course we will pay her...taking care of a baby is hard work.

Answer 11

We both work and both plan on working after the baby is born. We will be putting him in daycare. I live across the street from a nice daycare. I can't afford to stay home.

Answer 12

I stayed home for 6 mths while my boyfriend went to work and then when I started working I have a family member watching him while i work and our 3 yr old goes to school. We both work in the morning and have weekends off unless we do over time which we vary but that's what we do but we always make sundays are just for us. He picks up our daughter and i pick up the baby and who ever gets home cooks and the other makes the bottles and cleans the kitchen.