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Funkid · 09/12/2021 15:08

Hello dear support group,

My wife and I need to do some planning. We have a 3-months-old daughter. I go on working fulltime. My wife doesn’t work outside, she takes care of our daughter. I help whenever she needs free time for herself, which is easy as I work from home. And she does the household tasks (for a 100 m2 flat). We plan to entrust our daughter to a nursery once she is 9 months old, part-time probably to start with.

Our question is : in the coming 6 months (until the nursery), if my wife keeps on being prime caregiver, and doing the household chores, how much free time can she plan to have for herself to work/study from home ?

Put in another perspective : if we exclude evenings and weekends (where working parents would take care of the child together anyway), and we consider just the 40 hours working week, say Monday-Friday 9:00 to 18:00, how many of those hours are taken by taking care of a child, and how much is free to engage in studying or working (from home !) ?

And I guess that also depends on the age of the child (or children). It’s our first child, so we are discovering this.

We would be super grateful if you have some indications Smile.

Thank you !

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Thegreencup · 09/12/2021 15:11

Well if you're working and the child isn't in nursery, who will be looking after the child? You're wife? She will have fuck all free time then. Maybe an hour or two if the baby wants a nap. Hope that helps.

Zarene · 09/12/2021 15:11

With my DD approx 0hs - she contact napped and was hard to put down.

Others are different 🤷‍♀️

Skyll · 09/12/2021 15:09

It really depends on your child.

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