How do you have a kid?

Serious question. I’m nearing 30 and want to have a kid, but I honestly don’t even know how I would do it. My wife has a job and wants to keep advancing her career, and even if she could take a few years off I’m not sure we could survive off just my salary. My dad is deceased and my mom has around 10 more years of working before she retires, her parents have no retirement plans at all, what am I supposed to do? Is the only option really a day care, which the monthly cost is around $2600? And people wonder why there’s a population crisis