3–10 months is easy enough. But you’ll have to be some kind of superhero to keep doing 4–5 hours of focused work a day with a 2–3 year old climbing on you.
Re:How to wear your baby to work
by peterwoerner on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:43AM
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I know, she's a 10 months and I can't do my day job (working remotely) with her in the room any more. She especially likes to hit the power button on the computer and pull the power cords out of the outlets.
And while this is true, it is also worth pointing out that many parents don't want to pause their adult/career goals for 3-6 months because of a new baby. I recently had my first child and while she was little (now 10 months) she would sleep/sit on my lap while I wrote code/ran numerical experiments. I had paternity leave, but I needed to keep working on something because I have an active mind. Now I only worked 4ish hours a day instead of my usual 8-10 (and on side projects instead of work), but I wanted to continue working. My wife who does graphic/web design consulting continued after the birth because it feels good to do adult things. And she didn't stop just because the baby was born she just dropped to 5ish hours a week which has slowly crept back up.