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Hey! I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to NOT work while your husband is in med school. Currently, my husband is a software engineer and I am returning to school to pursue my grad degree in teaching in a few weeks. Our plan is to try to conceive during my first year of teaching (Fall 2009) with the idea that I will be a SAHM to our child/children. This is VERY important to both of us, as I have worked as both a childcare provider in a corporate childcare AND as a nanny and have seen what it does to children (particularly infants) to not have a SAH parent, even if the caregiver (such as myself) is very educated, loving, and attentive. What is stressing me out is my husband's recent decision (it was joint!) to become a physician and enter med school in a few years after taking his last pre-reqs, the MCAT and applying. I DO not want to have to work and put my kids in daycare or with a nanny UNLESS we get into OHSU and can be near my parents/sister/girlfriends, etc. I could possibly do an in-home daycare while he is in med-school (maybe for other physician's kiddos. Anyway, please let me know if anyone has heard of wives being SAHM while their husband is in med-school. Thanks so much!
Dukesmom
Dukesmom