Any DPs or DHs gone part time?

[TellyBug]

Have any of your DPs and DHs requested flexible working or part time hours after you became parents? If not, why? Do they earn more or have you just never considered it? Just interested.

A friend of mine's dp was full time and then changed to 4 long days and one day off during the week which helped them as they had twins. He works in an office.

We would love to be able to both work part time but its just not financially doable

We're both p/t and it is perfect...for us.

Three days a week each at work and my parents have DS the one day we both work. Couldn't do it without them.

DS is 20 months and we've done this since March, so almost six months.

As I say, it work for us and, most importantly, DS loves the arrangement.

Mine does 4 days - it works really well for us as his days are quite long, so the four days he's in work he doesn't really see DS. Their day together without me lets them have fun together :)

That's all fab! I don't think anyone I know has even considered their DPs picking up childcare like this.

My dh worked 50% and I worked 50% until dd was 2. It worked very well. But then he got the chance of promotion and managing a team just wasn´t going to work working 20 hours a week. He got the promotion and it seems that 40 hour weeks are still half as much as he needs!

My DH has always worked part time (niche job). I was full time but went back part time after DS arrived. We now work three days each Mon-Sat and split childcare down the middle. Works for us!

DH is part time, I am full time, was the only way really for us to get a livable income.

Slightly different for us - DH gave up work to become a SAHP when DD was 9mo and I reduced my hours slighly to do 4.5 days a week so I get every Friday afternoon with DD.

We did consider both of us doing part time but DH's earning was considerably less then mine so we couldn't make the sums add up. It is financially challenging at time but that afternoon I get with DD is worth it.

We both went part time when DC1 was born 7 years ago. DP works two (long) days and up until a year ago I worked 3 days. I added a couple of mornings to keep on top of things at work so I now do a compressed 35 hr week over 4 days. My earnings are more than DP so this is why we did it this way round.

Works well for us all.

I work 4 days, DH works 3. I earn slightly more but mostly our jobs wouldn't work as well the other way round. DS is 15 months. It's the best thing for our family - we'd both be SAHPs if we could so we have to share it! But I've just gone back to work a couple of months ago & i'm struggling a bit, and feel the added pressure of knowing I can't resign because we couldn't live on DH's p/t salary alone.