The Doona is really awesome, very functional, especially for travel and when your baby is so little, sleeps all the time, it makes it easy to just pop out of your car, pop the wheels down and go, vs having to connect a car seat into a stroller (if you’re at Target, the grocery store, etc) but if you’re just looking for a good stroller then the Uppa is great! No storage with the Doona. Kind of apples n oranges since the Doona is a car seat and stroller in one.

Outsource help. Hire a house manager to do laundry, cooking, meal prep, dishes, run errands etc. the duties that take up your time but that someone can do for you- a game changer!

Austin Central Library downtown. They have full time staff that does only passports and some toys for kids to play while you do the paperwork. Make an appointment, fill out the paperwork ahead of time and go there with your checkbook and your child’s birth certificate and Social Security card. Both parents need to be present. They take photos there. We just did this a month ago and it was seamless. My boys went to the kids area afterwards to read some books so win/win!

The working mom life is harder than ever in our current world. It’s nonstop! I too work for a tech startup and about to hire a House Manager to help me with the household - laundry, groceries, meal prep, etc. the things that take up my time but that someone else can do for me. I’m personally not fit to be a SAHM (my kids are 1 & 3 and I can’t wait for daycare to reopen after 2 weeks of Christmas break! ‍) and I personally love bringing home the bacon and being able to provide. If you don’t to sacrifice the financial hit, can you outsource help so you have more quality time w your kiddos?