• Thought that FT piece seemed a bit unpleasant, but perhaps I'm overreacting as a beneficiary of it.

    This year has been an extraordinarily shit time to have a baby.

  • This year has been an extraordinarily shit time to have a baby.

    If you have a secure job and WFH, it might have been nice to have more time at home I suppose

  • I have a secure job (as secure as anyone's I guess) and have been WFH since March. Our first arrived on July 24th.

    It has been a monumentally shit year to be 100% WFH.

  • If you have a secure job and WFH, it might have been nice to have more time at home I suppose

    Very much this here. Don't mean to rub it in anyone's face, but we moved out of Forest Gate to the Hertfordshire countryside in Spring '19 and had little one. So to have all this time of no commuting, no late nights home, going for walks in the country around the lakes, watching him grow as I tap away behind a laptop...
    I know I'm in a VERY fortunate position and lots of my friends have been struggling.

    He is #3 for me though, I can remember hardly ever seeing my eldest as I was out the house for work 12hours a day, having to work extra days and never getting any AL authorised...

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