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I recently had a conversation with my husband, and realized that we were on different pages. He knew that I was going stir-crazy at home and wanted to get back to work, but he assumed that I was going to go back to work part-time when the new baby comes. And that I would stay home for the first 2-3 months before I went to work. I had an honest talk with him where I told him that no, I would take the right job as soon as I was done healing from the birth, even if it was full-time. And that most likely my job WOULD be full-time because I know the company I'm going to work for, and while they are flexible, they are not that flexible. Plus, I might need to work there for a while before they give me work-from-home privileges. I told him that I want him to be comfortable with us getting a nanny to watch our kids, and that I don't want to be the one who has to sit at home if he isn't comfortable with it. I am the luckiest girl in the world, because he completely understood where I was coming from, and said, "Yeah, that's not fair. If I have a problem with a nanny, then I can stay home or work from home." So that's what he's going to do - work out a deal with his company where he works from home a lot more while I work outside the home a lot more.

Through all of this I've learned one thing - communicate and compromise, and you will end up happy.