So do you plan to stay home, work, or

JimmysBride Posted: Jan 31, 2005 11:57 AM

So do you plan to stay home, work, or

work part-time, or work from home once the babies come? And if you are planning to stay home -- how long are you planning to stay home for -- till the baby's in pre-school? Kindergarten? 6 mos?

shamrock12472 Posted: Jan 31, 2005 11:58 AM

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We all know what I want to do but realistically, I will get bored with myself if I stay home so I will either cut down on hours or work part time.

Jax430 Posted: Jan 31, 2005 11:59 AM

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It's so hard for me to say right now. I feel that I will have to work full time, b/c once I get out of school and begin my career I will likely be making more money than DH. However, I would really like to be home full time with my children for the first few years. I just don't think that it's likely to happen. I'll probably just be home for the first few months.

wood2be Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:02 PM

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If we want to remain on Long Island, I don't see how I will not be able to work

Janice Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:07 PM

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we are moving to Florida so that I will be able to stay home

97bride Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:24 PM

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I stay home with my kids. My oldest is in kindergarten this year. I'll probably stay home until my youngest is in first grade (2007). That's the current plan anyway.

brideinapril Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:32 PM

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I wish there was a choice!
But for me, I will go back to work full time as I did with my first one.

wc0143 Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:33 PM

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The *plan* is for me to stay home once we have kids.

FeliciaDA Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:42 PM

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This is my biggest worry about having children..

I'm not thrilled with it -- but I've resolved myself to the fact that I'll have to go back to work fulltime when we have children . I truly would have loved to stay home at least for the first few years, however financially that's just not possible

My main dilemma, however, is finding affordable and reliable daycare. THAT's what throws me into panic mode

boosh78201 Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:45 PM

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As much as I would love to stay home with the kids, I wont be able to. Don makes good money so if I wanted to be a SAHM I could but we wouldnt save anything and I dont want that.

We are very fortunate that both sets of parents are retired (and live close by) so they will watch the baby when I go back to work.

tourist Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:58 PM

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If/when we have children, I would like to stay home, at least untill the youngest ( if we have more than 1) is in 1st grade. Then I would like to work part time maybe.

Of course, this would all be if we could afford it. I am certainI DO NOT want to commute inot the city if I have kids though. I get home so late,they'd be asleep.

I'd be afraid to not go back at all ,and then have no experience & not be able to find a job when they are in college or if my husband died or couldn't work or something.

I don't really have a career though, just a job that I hate & is far from my home.

CaCRmr Posted: Jan 31, 2005 12:58 PM

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I fully intend to stay home until my children are in school part-time. DH wouldn't have it any other way, he said he would work 3 jobs so I can raise our children if he had to.

Janice Posted: Jan 31, 2005 01:03 PM

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Posted by CaCRmr

I fully intend to stay home until my children are in school part-time. DH wouldn't have it any other way, he said he would work 3 jobs so I can raise our children if he had to.

same with mine, he knows how important it is for me to stay at home with our kiddies

Eireann Posted: Jan 31, 2005 01:39 PM

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I am pregnant right now, and the original plan was for me to stay home; however, since DH is in private practice, he has no health insurance and paying for it is outrageously expensive! I am a teacher. We have now decided that I will come back to school next year which won't be so bad (I'm due the first day of school! Hope I won't have to come back until after Christmas) After the second one, I'll probably stay home. Secretly, I'm a bit relieved I don't have to give up my job just yet!

kpny622 Posted: Jan 31, 2005 01:40 PM

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I wish I could stay home but...we live on Long Island...which basically means we both have to work full time

Anniegrl Posted: Jan 31, 2005 01:43 PM

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Unfortunately I'll have to work full-time. I'm not happy about it, but we don't really have a choice. DH's goal is for me to ultimately be a SAHM, so he's working his tail off to move up the ladder as quickly as possible....

TwoBugs Posted: Jan 31, 2005 01:48 PM

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If I stay in my current field, I should be able to work from home.

Maybe I will think differently when the kiddies come, but right now I don't think I'd make a very good SAHM.

Blu-ize Posted: Jan 31, 2005 02:34 PM

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Move out of Long Island and that changes everything. We have to decide about kids while the clock ticks away, but that's one of the reasons we don't have them yet....can't even see how people do it!

nferrandi Posted: Jan 31, 2005 02:46 PM

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We were actually talking about this just last night. In a perfect world, DH would be ready for kids now and he would like me to be a SAHM, but that just isn't the reality of things. I will have to go back to work full-time for us to be able to afford things.