I can certainly see where the article is coming from, and think it's true to a point. But I have tried both and I couldn't go back to full time work. I did it for about 5 weeks when Jack was 7 months and it was just too much. I dropped back to 4 days a week which was the least I was able to do at that stage. That was still too much. One week day to get things done isn't enough and I wanted more time with Jack (although I did see him every lunchtime when I was working). This time I have just started 2 days a week (at home for the moment but will be out of a client site soon). It is going really well. Sometimes I do feel that I need to a bit extra on other days but it's still a good balance. I will probably be going up to 3 days a week around October, and I think that will be ok too, but I'm definitely not going to work more days than that. I am so lucky my work are being flexible.

One other comment - I think the hardest part of working (apart from being away from your child(ren) of course), is getting out the door in the mornings and getting home, getting kid(s) fed and bathed and in bed at a decent hour. When I was working before Tom was born, poor Jack would often have to woken in the morning, often ate as soon as I could get food ready for him and then he'd fall asleep. He was having showers in the morning with DH more often than not as he was too tired for a bath at night. And we had no family time while he was awake. And I think that's the biggest reason why working full time with kids is very difficult.