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My SO and I are both software engineers, so blame me for taking one of the lady devs off the market.

My wife and I are too. Though we had our first child last week. She said earlier in the pregnancy that she would like to keep in the workforce. But as each day passes with the baby it feels more likely she'll decide to be a full-time mom. Either decision is fine in my book :)

Congratulations on your first child! That's so cool.

Kids need programming too.

Boop the snoot in Morse code!

And Morse code is quite efficient!

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/02/08/how-efficient-is-m...

Congrats on your child!

I can see both sides, but one thing to think about is that coming back to software engineering after 5-10 years away would be brutal. It’s also a place it’s famously easy to coast and take it easy for a while.

But if I went through a pregnancy I would need a big rest and enjoy the rewards afterwards :-)

Congrats! My wife went back to work for like 3 weeks after 3 months off with our first. Then she just decided to no longer have a job that gives a paycheck. She works, harder than I, and of more import. She just doesn’t get a paycheck.

Though... she went back to Starbucks and service industry != tech industry by a long shot so....

Congrats :-) me and my wife are both software developers too, and well, our 6 month old is sitting right next to me now :-) but I think she will want to go back to work - well, there's another 6 months of maternity leave ahead so plenty of time to decide.

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