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I work M-F 7:50-2:50 and DH works W-Sun 2:30-11 or 2-10:30. It is horrible for family time. We don't even have one day off together. The upside is that we only have to pay for a babysitter for 2 hours/3 days a week. I'm used to it now but it was very difficult with a younger baby. Making dinner is still an impossible task some days though.

Yikes! Night shifts are no fun. My husband works an odd schedule that is always changing as well but he's currently on nights for the next few months. He only works either 3 or 4 days a week though and it really works out okay for us. (granted, I don't have a LO yet.) That would be tough with your husband working 5 days a week like that. I'd only agree to it if there was some sort of significant benefit.

swing shifts are harder than I thought they would be. Right now my husband is a stay at home dad and I work a flex schedule that varies every week. Generally 8pm is the lastest I work but sometimes I work until 11. Some days I'm off at 5. I think my situation is possibly a little more frustrating b/c there is never time to get into a groove.

Your husbands schedule means you're only doing dinner as a family two nights a week and you're in charge of all night care of your LO 5 nights a week. That could be tough? Is he able to do it on a trial basis? All new schedules at my company are a 90 day trial and then you can go back.

There are definite pluses and minuses to working some nights, but every night would get old fast!

@Revel: I think, basically, you need to be strong and independent. If you are, then the night shifts will work out just fine. If you rely on your husband for a lot of stuff, then it will suck.

We do this. I work 7-4 and DH works 12-8:30. It's nice because he can take care of E in the morning and have some time to play with him before taking him to daycare. I pick E up and do dinner/bath/bed. Then I cook dinner and we eat late, once DH is done with work. We only get about an hour together before I go to bed, but we do both have off on weekends. It's not ideal that we don't get as much time together as a family, but I really like that we can let E sleep in in the mornings and that he still gets lots of time with each parent each day.

My husband works 10pm-6am. We still get dinner and evenings together and it still SUCKS. I hate that he works nights