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I have nothing really to add to this post except to say that what @ElbieKay: wrote was exactly my experience.

Working with an infant is easy. The only thing that is hard is sometimes I would hear his crying (I had grandparentcare) and I had to have the discipline to not intervene and to let them work it out.

I have to disagree about young babies not knowing their parents are around. With my 2nd LO, I started WAH again when she was 4.5 months. We lived in a single story apartment and the first few times the babysitter came, she just kind of hung around in he apartment while I closed myself in my office. My baby knew I was there and knew the babysitter was a stranger and would cry and cry. I finally made the babysitter leave the house every day. It was spring so she would take her out in the stroller to the park or just on errands. Both of my LOS had stranger danger from very early on.

I WAH, and normally LO is in daycare. On occasion when DH is off and home with him, or he is sick and MIL has kept him with me home, I find the hardest part to be disengaging. I take way more breaks to go check on him or help out, and probably only get 65-75% of the work done that I would if he wasn't here. Still a lot better than the 25% I get done on occasion that I have to keep him home alone and try to work

DH works from home every Friday (while I am a SAHM to DD). His office is directly across the hall from our nursery but it has never been a problem. Sometimes we play in the nursery and sometimes we play downstairs in the family room. He just closes the door if he has to be on a conference call or very focused on something. DD doesn't act any differently on the days where he is at home versus it just being the two of us.