Hmm, not really. My mom didn’t go back to work full time until I went into kindergarten but I’m the youngest of four kids; our house wasn’t exactly small. And we had pets (dogs, cats, bunnies at one point, a couple canaries, and a guinea pig for a bit) long after my mom went back to work. My dad was a truck driver, gone for weeks at a time sometimes, so he wasn’t much help.
Sometimes I wonder how my mom did anything at all.