It is important to manage your money especially when your baby is born. Extra costs would inevitably so that a husband and a wife must have a strategy in accordance with a management of finance family.
It can’t be hide the delights to see that a baby is already present in the midst of family. Many things have been prepared including mentality, physically and in terms of financial must be ready. All the things needed must be prepared carefully.
In fact, the presence of a baby as a new member in the family must increase our spending money. We have to buy toiletries baby, diapers, immunizations, clothing, counseling and other physicians. If the budget expenditure is not properly prepared, it can disrupt the cash flow of our daily routine. Of course, this situation could make our finance family will be chaotic in the first year.
The married couple who live with parents and children is called the life of a sandwich generation (Sandwich Generation, Raphael & Schlesinger, 1993). According to Gina Shaw, for whatever reason, the life of married couple who “oppressed” in the sandwich generation will be all “too”: too tired, too stressed, too many thoughts, too heavy workload, and too much time consumed. It can be understood, because to take care of themselves, they have drained everything, especially when it fend for themselves, children, and parents.