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One of you will need to not travel, whether that means moving internal, local projects, switching industries, taking time off, or one of you becoming a SAH M/D. For us, my husband became a SAHD. There are options, but not for both to be traveling. Babies get sick, someone needs to be able to leave work and go to them, if/when needed.
My husband took a backseat in his career so I could continue to advance mine. Now that I am in a more leadership role, I can manage my travel schedule to allow him to spend more time developing his career. He was a champ and never complained once while I was gone endless nights. Now it’s my turn to support him.
My husband quit consulting so I can continue. Unless you have two trusted au pairs, it's not going to work :(
Maybe once a year my husband travels to a conference that interests him the same time I travel, in that case, I'll fly one of my parents into town to stay with my toddler.
You could take your full leave first while he keeps working. Then when you go back he can take all of his. This should buy you 8-10 months. While you’re back at work decide if you can handle it and if not start applying for internal or industry jobs. Do agree that both of you can’t travel M-Th every week unless you have a good local family support network (or someone else you feel comfortable leaving your infant with for 100+ hour stretches at a time).
Having my husband’s parent support for some months...not sure how to deal with that later...
Two consultants with a 10 month old. He has continued to travel M-Th but I’ve taken on local projects and starting an internal rotation that’s mostly woke from home with sporadic travel. When I travel he works remote that week or if he can’t I bring the nanny/baby with me on the road or have her stay withy little one for a night here and there. My advice is to go back and just “make it work” for a year by finding ways to stay off the road, whatever that looks like, and then really take a hard look at what you want from career/family and make some decisions about longer term plans.
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I was in the same situation. We got a live in nanny and I moved into an internal role.
We tried it for a while but then my husband went into industry and I’ve been able to work out very limited travel to date...but not a permanent solution, will need to go internal or to industry to advance