For those who have no village/support…

We go out for brunch dates when kids are at nursery

We’ve had babysitting twice since she was born, both for an afternoon or an evening only. But we’re lucky in that she’s a good sleeper for the most part so we have our time together in the evenings once she’s in bed.

We don’t. Same as you, family overseas and alone in this city, no village whatsoever. Our time alone is when the kids are asleep xx

We don't, but we communicate and remind each other that right now we have babies to be raising and soon enough we'll get our time again ❤️

Same as Hayley, we don’t get time together but I think we’ve both kind of accepted this, it is definitely hard on the relationship though

We don't. Only time we've been alone out was on my birthday for lunch. Evening or just embrace dynamic of three

We're not really. We keep saying we'll sort a babysitter but it hasn't happened yet!

We don’t 😢. Our boy doesn’t sleep well either so by the time I finally get him down, I need my bed myself xx

We do have family nearby but we rely on them to look after him during the week while we work so it's not fair to ask them to babysit on weekends too, we just spend evenings together, don't go out much x

We sometimes take annual leave days together and keep the baby in nursery, so we can go out for the day in city and pick him up as usual.

Babysitter! Became curious, took the plunge, found a good one I trust and now it’s a great addition. Decided to build our own village x

We have nanny 1x late afternoon (until bedtime) and 1x morning. We started it when he was 1,5y and we don't have free evenings, because he goes to sleep late and he doesn't sleep well. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We’re the same and we haven’t been able to have time together except once or twice when we’ve done what others have suggested here and taken an annual leave day and left our daughter in nursery