Wife just started working again after almost a year off after the birth of our first. How do you guys help while being away so much? Now that she's working again she's had to leave twice to pick cont.

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I travel every week and my wife pretty much does pick up and drop off every day. Not ideal situation and she doesn’t have a 6 figure job so she is quitting soon but I think you should consider a nanny if you can afford it. My wife has run out of PTO and FMLA and it is hard to predict when the kid will get sick so I cannot always be available.

I feel your pain. Just keep trying and supporting her, this shit ain’t easy

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Thanks for the insight and story. Good to know others are finding ways to manage too

What company? Deloitte has gaurenteed babysitters that are subsidized

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Let me check the PwC policy

So it sounds like this is a temporary issue until your kid develops immunity from the new daycare

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Him up from daycare due to diarrhea. Looking for potential solutions to this issue of leaving work at a new 6 figure job, when we don't have a lot of family in the state where we live to lean on for picking him up, etc.

Live and learn. New day care = everyone gets the flu twice in the first 3 months

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