Great if you can find a man who can support your staying home. Money-wise that is.
If not, you both decide you’ll be a stay-at-home mom, have the first baby and then...oops, we don’t have enough money you need to get a job. Happened to a friend of mine. Now she has double jobs. Home and teaching. And she’s worn out all of the time.
That’s something couples should figure out before they have the first baby. It was an absolute blessing to us that we had already set things up so we were living on one salary when my husband lost his job this summer. (Of course, it was supposed to be his salary that we were living on, but mine worked!)
Now he’s got a new great job and I’m still chipping in until my baby’s born... maybe part time afterwards if my company continues to want my services part time and from home.