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2 in daycare biweekly house cleaner and both parents work FT, if I could wave a magic wand:
-in home nanny OR help with drop off and pick up
-I love cooking, but getting dinner on the table every night by 5:30/6pm for toddlers feels like tons of mental labor and stress, help to meal prep (breakfast and dinner) for the family weekly (like, the whole thing—planning, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning it)
-mothers helper for laundry maybe 2x week (one day all the toddler clothes and another day all the linens)
We’re making it work without the above, but I would love that time back in my week to feel less stressed and able to have quality family time + guilt free me time
Yes same. I want to exercise again or do something for me, but any spare time I’m folding clothes or too tired. We have given up getting dinner on the table for toddlers: it’s PB&J, hummus and crackers or picky plate of cheese and leftover chicken (then we eat as a couple later). I think it’s laundry or meal prep that I can’t face thinking about. Like, every time I go upstairs there’s another crate of laundry neither of us put away.
I do cleaner once a week and recently augmented with sending my laundry out. Game. Changer. More than happy to find room in the budget (reducing our takeout) for this reduction in time suck (mom of 2 toddler boys, partner works full time)
- 2 kids in daycare full time
- bimonthly housekeeper (during infant phase she came weekly). She also folds all of our clothes which is a gamechanger
- guy who mows our lawn as needed
- moved close to my parents so we have build-in babysitters for date nights (2-3x a month)
Truthfully, we could use another person to help tidy and do more laundry (doesn’t ever end?!) but we make it work.
It’s the best. It took a lot for me to sacrifice moving from NYC to the middle of nowhere lol but at the end of the day, it’s so worth it.
Working mom here with a husband who also works. I’m lucky to have my parents available to care for my kiddo during the week but if I didn’t we would likely have a nanny. I have a cleaner come biweekly. If I could add something I think it would probably be some help with laundry. We also order takeout probably twice a week.
A nanny, hands down. My daughter is almost 6 months old and I wouldn’t have it any other way, honestly.
No she is with us 9-5. When baby sleeps or is playing independently, she cleans around the house and helps with meal prep like chopping up veggies etc.
If I could afford it, I would have definitely considered a live in nanny, honestly. We are still on our own for weekday evenings, weekends and public holidays.
Sorry I should have added that our kiddo’s in daycare! We alternate pick-up.
I’d recommend periodic cleanings and someone to come cook for us a couple of times a week. We did this till we had our child and then switched to a nanny.
Live in? Do you get help in cooking or other chores?
We had a lot of help with our first child since my in-laws lived in the same building, but now that we live farther away and are pregnant with our second, we are definitely considering a nanny. We don’t currently really outsource anything