Childcare is EXPENSIVE
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@Rosalie i wish i could stay at home with our baby for the first year. My leave was very generous, more than most get. But it doesn’t feel like it was enough if I have to pay $1k a month for child care. Our mortgage (in a shitty area with nothing around) is $2300. & with other expenses it feels like if we added childcare, we’ll be paycheck to paycheck scrapping by :/ my husband alone only makes $65k and that’s not nearly enough alone
Yea i decided to be a sahm, it was worth paying the price for daycare
It depends what you do. I’ve been working from home with my 2 babies that are 10 months apart since my younger one turned 6 weeks. It’s hard at times but manageable. I scheduled phone calls around nap time if I really needed to or if they were having fussy days and did what I could the rest of the time.
Certainly not too much to WFH and watch your baby because honestly, nobody will take care of them like you would anyway. When I had my babies my friend told me about a live-in nanny option for $1200 per month. Most people take live-in nannies now because it is cheaper than hourly rate nannies
Ugh. Yes. This economy is insane. I was a teacher, but that job certainly doesn’t pay enough for childcare 😆 It’s more economic for me to stay home with the kids. (I also really love it, more than I thought I would!) People tell me staying at home is a privilege (and it is!), but for our family it also makes the most monetary sense 🤷🏻♀️ lol Unfortunately I don’t think working from home without childcare is feasible unless you’re super flexible. Like if you just need to get things done and your boss doesn’t care whether you’re doing it at night or if you can easily multitask etc. I hope you’re able to find something that works for you guys!