I know no one can really answer this but me but just after some views from other people on what they did.
Currently on maternity leave after having dc2 ( 9 weeks) also have dd who is 6.
I absolutely love my job. After a few bad career choices I finally have a job I really enjoy, am good at and have worked hard at so am well respected. I originally only planned to take 5 months off, partly due to enjoying my role, but also that's when my enhanced maternity ends so financially it made sense. Plan was to return on 3-4days a week for a few months using my accrued annual leave. I would be wfh for this period. Dh would use some annual leave to have the time off when I am working to look after ds as he won't be going to nursery until he is 7 months. I will then be full time after then.
However since being on maternity leave I have been debating asking to take an additional 2 months off. Do taking 7 in total. Financially we can afford this but would mean dipping into savings which I would rather not do but we could. Dh has also had some of the leave he was going to use declined (its apparently a really busy period although the month has never been busy before!) So would make sense for me to take the extra time off.
However, I worked a KIT day yesterday and I hate to admit it, but I really enjoyed being back at work. I missed the dc like crazy of course (had to go into the office) but I really enjoyed being me for a while and not mummy.
I didn't get chance to speak to work yesterday about dh having his annual leave declined so if indo go back i will have to work around having ds at home, but my role is one I could do out of hours and around naps apart from an odd call.
I'm so torn on what to do!