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I work for a very large corporation. Pre-baby, I worked from home occasionally. Post baby, I work from home usually two days a week. Three days, only if necessary, I get bored easily at home. I make a sizable amount of our total income. We have daycare for LO 5 days a week.

When I went back, I pumped three times a day in the lactation room during my day in between working. At home, I had to do the same thing. It made it tough to work, but the benefits for LO outweighed my inconveniences.

When I was near the end of my pregnancy, I was supposed to work from home up until my due date. LO arrived a couple days early, so no breather there. Next time around, I'll work from home more and have my computer with me near the end of my pregnancy. My first day back, my computer got overhauled.

ETA: I had to come into work today because our router broke. So that's one of the work from home things that happen.

I work from home. My job and pay is not really useful to you because I'm a lawyer which isn't something you can opt quickly to do and also it is extremely uncommon for lawyers to get to work from home (also being a lawyer sucks. So um, not recommended regardless haha).

As for the reality of it though, there is good and bad. I like the lack of the commute and the lack of pants required. I start work at 8:30 and I wake up at 8:15 (basically out of bed, brush the teeth, make my husband's lunch/my breakfast/coffee, and I sit down to work-- woot!). I like that it is comfortable-- working on the couch beats a desk chair any day. I like that it is flexible, I can take doctor's appointments mid day or go to the grocery store or whatever, it isn't so "punch a clock" but more-- get these tasks done.

I do not like the lack of human interaction. You have no idea how important lunch out with coworkers once every few weeks is until you don't have it. Or even just a 5 min "how was your weekend" chat. The first 2 years I did this I felt extremely lonely and isolated. Thank god for the internet. I do not like that my job never ends. There are no sick days or snow days because how sick would I have to be to be incapable of sitting in a robe with a laptop in bed. Also with flexibility comes accessibility. I get calls from my boss nights and weekends… always. I don't think I've ever taken a vacation where I didn't get at least one call from him. There is no real separation of work and personal life, and I often am doing some sort of work after dinner. I also dislike that people seem to think I don't work. Oh you're at home all day? HOW FABULOUS!! You must watch so much tv and your house must be spotless! Um? I am getting paid for doing SOMETHING… I just happen to do it on the couch at home. I still do have to actually work. And relatedly, the first year I lived with my husband was challenging because with my being home all day it was hard for him to not sort of think of me as a housewife. With all the associated house and cooking duties. It took a good many fights for him to really internalize that yes I am home.. but I am WORKING. I work full time and get a paycheck just like you buddy, you don't get a stay at home wife with all the wifely duties AND a spouse who brings home the bacon.

I work from home, but the majority of my time is spent outside of my home interfacing with customers.

I am home all day on Monday and my day consists of analyzing data, scheduling meetings for the week, and conference calls- anywhere from 2 to 4.

During the rest of the week when I am visiting customers and my day starts early. I have about 1.5-2 hours of back office type of stuff to do before I leave for the day. When I get home I have another hour's worth of back office work to do. Some weeks I have 2-3 nights of overnight travel.

When I have a LO the baby will go to daycare the entire week even when I am home the full day a week.

I'm not comfortable posting my salary, but I am about even with my husband. We need both incomes to live.

@autumn865: What did you do before you went on maternity leave? Are you looking to do the same thing or transition to some other type of work?

The reason I ask is that the majority of the people that I know that work from home had an office type job that eventually transitioned into working from home after proving they could do the job.

I WFH FT and have for the last three years. I'm an event producer for a company that is based out of state. My job does require some travel in the states and sometimes internationally a few times a year (usually for about a week). I am the breadwinner in our house making about 60% of our total income.

LO will be here at the end of March so this hasn't been tested in practice yet (haha) but after my maternity leave I plan to go down to PT, working from home with my parents or ILs watching her. I'll probably work 3-4 day/week, but I'm really not sure. My job has let me know they'll be fairly flexible upon my return which I'm *extermely* thankful for, as I'm sure the details of my return will change slightly as we learn what life is really like with our baby.

Also, I second @mae on all the positives and negatives when working from home. Not seeing people everyday is rough (and I'm not even a big social butterfly!) and some days I escape to a coffee shop or the grocery store just to have human interaction and make myself put on real pants.

I work from home 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. Typical 8:00a-5:00p schedule. Before baby, I would WFH maybe once a week-- my role changed while I was pregnant, so I was able to WFH full-time. I manage a team of receptionists across the country (6 direct reports) and I'm also an events manager for our company. We are a telecommunications/video conferencing business, so we use our technology all the time for meetings, which means I still need to shower, get dressed, etc. every day (at least from the waist up Anchorman style).

My mom comes over every day to watch LO while I work. She gets here around 7, by that time C is already up and has had her bottle. She takes on her walks, watches TV, plays outside/with toys, etc. I usually prepare LO's lunch and eat with them. My mom will then nap or shower or cook while LO is napping.