Well I think that as supposed grown ups who've been round the block a few times, we should be capable of thinking through a commitment as important as regular childcare before we embark on it. As I said, I'd observed several scenarios before dd was pregnant and we'd had conversations about our vews on this. And before you think I'm being insufferably smug, I had to put up with a lot of implied criticism because I wasn't prepared to be a regular childminder for my dgs ( not from dd). I suppose some of my feelings on this come from a real dislike of the 'martyr' mentality - people doing things apparently willingly and then you find out it's all about feeling hard done by and exploited and nothing was said to your face until a big row/ crisis blew up. IMO it's unfair to criticise the OP without accepting the GPs role in this.
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