SAHM or Working Mom?

given a choice (with financial stability), i would like to be SAHM. i wouldn't want to miss another day of my child's growth.

I'm a SAHM but I'm also a writer so I have been blessed to be able to maintain my career from home. My daughter is awesome and I love sharing in her life and being at home with her. That was my choice.
I think the decision to be a SAHM is personal. I would say pray about it, and ask God to show you what is best for your family. I think the only rule is that if you love your family and you're doing what's best for your familly and child and not pursuing your personal interests at the expense of what is best for all of your loved ones, then you're an awesome mom. Only you know the choice that is right for your family. SAHM is right for some, not everyone.

I'd probably like to get the best of both worlds. I'd want to stay home for a few years and watch my child learn to walk, talk, feed itself..the normal things that a mother should be there for. As the child got older I would probably want to go back to work, so the "extra" money was there if we needed it for anything or work from home, so I could still make the money we needed and be there for my child. My husband and I have talked it over and HE wants to stay home with the child for the first year and then we can take turns staying home and working :) I'll never know how that'll work out until we have kids!!

Ok so I have a college degree in psychology, not a whole lot that you can do with that other than social work. So I got a job with a mental health facility working with kids. That should have been birth control in itself, but I disliked the job, and didn't know what else I wanted to do; so my husband and I decided that we were ready to conceive, and I would take 6 mos off after the baby was here, and then find a new job somewhere. Well getting pregnant was the best thing that ever happened. Not only did I get a wonderful child out of it, but I also discovered that I wanted to be a nurse. So anyway here I am 2 kids later, staying at home (I never thought I would ever want to stay at home!) and enjoying it. I am not going to say that I love it, but I am enjoying it (this is the hardest job that I have ever had, it take so much patience, and that is not my strong suit). I have to admit that the first year is a must for me to stay home, they change so much in that little time, with so many firsts. But as I say if I wasn't pregnant with my second when my son turned 15 mos old I would have been looking for a job! He was a bear, terrible two?s hit way early. Now when all of my kids are in school, yes there are more to come. I will be getting my nursing degree and returning to work, I need to have something for me, other than just being a mom. In fact to fill the void a little now, I sell Usborne books, just to give me goals for myself. Staying at home is a very personal decision, and I believe that some mom's are better moms if they work, just as some mom's are better mom's if they stay at home, it's however you feel best. I worked in a daycare in college, and can say that there are benefits that your children can receive by being in daycare that is harder to receive if you stay at home, such as socialization. Do what you feel most comfortable doing.

I'm a SAHM, and I love it for the most part. I'm with my babies all day so I don't have to worry about someone else taking care of them. That would really drive me crazy. I worked for a couple of months when my son was a little baby. My mom took care of him, but I always worried about if she could care for him the way I did. For other reasons, I quit and have been home ever since. My husband works all night and sleeps most of the day, so he misses almost everything that goes on with the kids. He tells me all the time he wishes he had more time to spend with them. Because they are with mommy everyday, they prefer mommy over daddy and I think that upsets him. But on the flip side, my husband gets to go to work and interact with other adults, and relieve himself of the stresses of just being a parent. I don't work or live by any friends or family, so I get very lonely sometimes. And theres no escaping for me every once and a while. But I guess at the end of the day, it's worth it to me because I know that they have the best care there is. And I'm here always for everything that they need. I'm just fortunate enough to have a husband with a good paying job so I don't have to work. Not everyone has that option. So those of us who do should consider ourselves lucky.

I work full time outside of the home. I'm trying to start my own at home business so that I can spend more time at home. My son is 9 years old and I have either been in school or working in some capacity his whole life. I feel like I've missed too much and have had to have strangers help to raise my son. My husband is supportive of my want to be at home. Our goal is for me to be a stay at home mom. I feel more productive at home when I am not working so much.