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I'm a SAHM so I had LO all day until she started going to school. And DH does have to travel for work (sometimes it's a few days every week for a month or two, then he has weeks of no travel, and sometimes he has to be gone all week every once in awhile). And then there are random weekend days that he's gone (he has season tickets for football). But I get a weekend days where he takes LO out for the day while I go on a shopping date with my friends or I go away for a weekend with friends.

I sah so I do it a lot. My husband's a teacher though so is officially off for the summer, which is fantastic for all of us!

@Truth Bombs: This. DH travels sometimes for work, but it's honestly not that different in the amount of work I do, except on the weekend. Most nights he's just getting home around bath/bed time (or after the kids are in bed), and he generally needs a few minutes to unwind, wants to fire up the grill, etc., so I finish the nighttime routine anyway. He's not a morning person, so he doesn't help in the AM, even if we're getting out the door before he leaves for work.

I solo alot. Since my husband went back to work I solo parent alot. He had two OOT business trips. Even with him working at the local office he leaves before daycare opens and gets home very late.

@Truth Bombs: @PinkElephant: same here - most nights he's getting home just in time for bedtime stories. So I do dinner and bath time during the week. He's also usually out the door before us in the morning too so I'm also getting her ready everyday during the week

I stay home and DH squeezes all his hours into 3.5 days so is gone before the kids wake up and gets back at bedtime or sometimes later. But then he finishes early on a Tuesday and has Thursdays off, which is great. He just had a four-night break with his friends so I was alone with the kids the whole time. Bedtimes sucked but it was nice in some ways, as I had the car - he usually takes it to work - and had lots of freedom.

90% of the time.

DH is a firefighter with 24 hour shifts, so i solo parent 10-15 days a month, some days i WAH and other days R has preschool.

All day, every day... I SAH and DH works long hours, plus has a long commute, so he's out of the house long before the kids wake up in the morning and gets back home in time to give them a kiss goodnight if I'm lucky. It can make for some very long weeks sometimes as our oldest is only in preschool three mornings a week and the other two are home full time.... I would love more than anything for DH to work more normal hours, but this is the nature of his industry and there's not a whole lot he can do about it

I stay at home and DH works a minimum of 50 hours a week. So a lot. Dh's schedule is odd though so some days he doesn't leave until after lunch but gets home when I'm sleeping and some days he leaves first thing in the morning but is home mid afternoon. He also works every weekend and has two week days off. I hate his schedule but he really enjoys his job and anything in his field would have a similar schedule.

Every Monday thru Friday. And that's without work travel (DH was most recently in South America for 6 months. That sucked)

Only a couple nights a week. DH is SAHP now so kids are his domain right now.

Oh wow lots of you ladies are solo a ton.

I typically don't need to do much solo. I pick up LO from school and DH is home 30-60 min after we get home. Right now on I'm on mat leave and I have LO1 in school only part of the day so I can spend more time with her.

In the summer, a lot because of my husband's travel schedule.

Like others said, I SAH so during the dummy it's expected that I'm solo parenting. But he usually gets home right around bedtime or after and that sucks- that last hours of finishing dinner and getting both kids ready for bed alone when everyone is tired and in a bad mood sucks. He travels occasionally for work which is extra hard right now with two kids who wake up at night sometimes. Luckily his travel has been pretty light recently.

Rarely. He is usually the one solo-parenting.

I am a SAHM, DH is a restaurant manager so he works crazy hours. I am solo probably 4 nights a week or so when he works double shifts and comes home at like 11-12. He does get a weekday or two off and he will come to DD's activities which she loves (or we can do a little daytrip when places are less busy). I miss him for dinner though.

During the school year, not much. During the summer I'm home all day. He leaves right after wake ups and is home after bed most days.

Usually 1-2 nights a week. It depends some on his teaching schedule. I also usually take at least 1 weekend day solo parenting (and sometimes the evening as well), but that should be pretty short-lived as my husband is writing a book and once that's done will have more free time.

I'm a SAHM. All day long on the week days. He's left for work by the time she wakes up and gets home a couple hours before bedtime. There are days every so often when he works late or has stuff going on that she doesn't see him at all.

I can't imagine what it's like to hardly ever or never be one on one with LO! I really treasure our family time on the weekends.