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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You're setting your expectations way too high and may wind up frustrated and disappointed. Unless you have a mother's helper, you'll be lucky to bill two hours a day for the first six weeks
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Agreed. baltspouse, who is also a lawyer, billed about eight hours total in the first two months after the baltspawns' arrival. Working at home without someone else to watch the baby is essentially impossible. Even when they settle down into a semi-regular nap schedule, there are so many other things that have to happen that will seem a higher priority than work (In rough order from baltspouse's experience: showering, washing bottles, doing kid laundry and picking up the mess. Sometimes none of these things happened in a given day until I got home form work.).
Realistically, once you've gotten the hang of things, I think you could expect to do as much as three hours of billable work a day on days that you have the kid to yourself. For more, you've got to have some help.
