Re: Is a baby really that much work?
The day a “full time job” becomes a full time job the way motherhood is one, especially for a newbie mom in initial stages, people would realize no amount of money is worth it because you just won’t get time to spend that salary.
I began working after a year of baby and even now, baby demands more time than any amount of work does. You cannot cannot and never do put your baby on the back burner. You cannot say, I’ll reply now and pick up wailing baby later. You sometimes just cannot get a moment. And it is okay that you may not get this and the closest comparison you find to mommydom is your full time job. Just like the closest comparison to labor for a guy may be getting kicked in the nutters perhaps or passing a big one :P.
But while your full time job has SOME timing where you can say, ok I have 5 hours to myself in 24 I can now sleep in peace (boss isn’t crying on your head at any given moment), young babies don’t give you that leeway. So even in sleep you are alert.