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It's hard for me to say right now. LO is 4 months and breast fed so I feel that I do a lot and have the baby a lot. I've also been off all summer (I'm a teacher) so while it feels like I do so much based on the amount of time a day I spend with him, DH does do a lot when he gets home from work.

I think I'll have a better idea of how our parenting duties will be split once I start back at work next week and we get into a routine.

I do the majority, but that's because I SAH/work part time (I'm currently on maternity leave). DH works from home, but he's very busy all day. On the weekends, it's pretty equal. Now housework, that's a different story...

ETA: I do almost all baby care, since I'm nursing, but if DH isn't working, that means he's on toddler duty.

After I started working outside the home, it was split pretty evenly.

I'm on a yearlong maternity leave and DH is our sole breadwinner at the moment. So most of the childcare is on me, although my mother comes a few days a week to help out. Overall, I voted that I'm really happy with our childcare situation.

My husband runs a law practice from home while also working a full-time job as a college professor and getting his Executive MBA, so its hectic for sure, but we're blessed with flexibility since he only has to commute to teach a few days a week. While my husband is often in his home office working until 11pm or later most nights, he also wakes up with DS most days, takes him to the park in the mornings, does almost all the diaper changes when he's home, puts our son down for naps, and gives him his daily bath before bedtime. On days he works from home, we also try to eat most of our meals together and my DH is great about doing dishes, laundry, and taking out the garbage.

I only do the majority because I work from home/telecommute. If I was in an office, it would be split 50/50. DH is very hands on and loves his time with the kids, and doesn't consider it "babysitting" like some other dads I know.

I'd say we're somewhere around 60/40 with me doing more of the childcare. A lot of that is the fact the I do mornings solo including drop off. And DH is supposed to do bath time every night, but a lot of the time lately DS gets upset if I don't go with them. Other random times DH will do something around the house, like mow the lawn, and I get baby duty.

But overall he more than pulls his weight. He does so much around the house and helps out with so many things (like he started making DS's lunch for me so I have an easier morning).

I'd say it's about 60/40 split for DH and I when I'm not pregnant. When I was pregnant and sick all the time it was 50/50 or maybe even 40/60 with DH doing more. But because my work day is 2 hours shorter than his work day, I have an "extra" 2-3 hours of solo childcare a day that he doesn't have.

I will say that both of us struggle with sick kids and "dings" on our work record---but I do think he gets EVEN MORE crap at work for this than I do. Although he still presses on and takes the day when he has to. But that's not easy on either one of us.

I stay home so I do majority obviously because I'm here all day. BUT when DH is off or home he does almost everything. I'm happy with our arrangement for sure!

My husband does at least 50%. He would say I do a lot more, but I don't, especially if you include cooking, cleaning, etc which he definitely does more than 50% of - more like 90% of household duties!!

I'm a SAHM so obviously I do most of the childcare. In the time that we are both home thing are somewhat evenly split. I'm still responsible for pretty much all of the "decisions" (like reminding him to change her, suggesting what to feed her, etc) but I think that is because I'm home all week so I figure out what works best and whatnot so he relies on me probably more than he HAS to to tell him what to do. That being said he gets up with her just about every morning, puts her to bed half the time, and when we are both home we are either all hanging out together or split our "time off" pretty evenly so I feel like we have good balance.

I do the majority - but as a teacher, my hours are much more flexible ..: Dh commutes and works long hours. I have summers off, and am currently on my second year-long mat leave. So the day to day childcare is pretty much my domain. That being said, when Dh is home (after work and weekends) the workload is split pretty evenly - I'd say 50/50.

My husband is a (mostly) stay-at-home-parent, so he does the vast majority of childcare. We both think his personality is a better fit for the day-to-day work of child rearing, which is interesting and somewhat unexpected since I have lots of experience working with kids and my job involves managing early education initiatives. I love love love kids, but they wear me down fast!

@sometimesshesings: I have also been surprised by how things have shaken out since becoming parents. I babysat since I was 12, was a teaching assistant, camp counselor, etc., and my husband was a camp counselor too but a total slacker. Now with our LO, he's super hands-on and does the majority of parenting stuff. Who would've thought?!