Would you leave your child with a new CM if you knew she was pregnant?

[Yorky]

Slightly odd question but I passed ICP (to become CM) last July but have moved house twice since then so Ofsted only came out to do initial visit last month, I am now waiting for my CRB to come back, and obviously because I've had a few addresses in the last 5 yrs it'll take a while. This is frustrating cos I just want to get started. Ends are just about meeting but obviously we've been on one income longer than we bargained for.
I have just found out I am 5wks pg with dc2 and am delighted but can't help thinking its just going to delay getting started childminding yet again. Would knowing this make you choose another childcarer over me?

Yorky....I'm a CM and have had 3 new starters since I've been 12+ weeks pregnant and overwhelmed by how it hasn't bothered them. They've basically all said that because I'm the one for them, the pregnancy bit they can deal with I'm having 12 weeks off. Just to give you an idea (I'll name the new ones mindees 1-3):

Mindee1 - booked with my in August and paid deposit. I let them know just before Christmas that I was nearly 12 weeks pregnant and felt awful and if they wanted a refund, I'd understand. They told me to not be so stupid, they'll work something out for the 12 weeks and they still wanted me, mindee started in Feb

I took a risk and gave notice to 2 (had reasons) and was worried about filling those spaces. Well....

Mindee2 - 8 week old started 4/5 weeks ago (so now 12/13 weeks). Mum wasn't put off by my pregnancy and 12 weeks off as they are very flexible and run own business blabla. They wanted me so said they'd work round my time off

Mindee3 - 8 month old came for a while and again the mum said she didn't want any of the others she'd seen and could therefore work round my time off. Unfortuntely the poor love was suffering terribly when mummy wasn't there and I decided that for the short time he was coming each week, I wasn't the best person for the job as would take and long time to settle and of course I'm going to be having time off soon.

Anyway, I've got them on my waiting list for when I start back, along with others and I'm overwhelmed by how lovely everyone has been and how the existing parents didn't get annoyed and how new people still came to me.

Sooooo, you can only try and see what happens. Many congrats on the pregnancy and good luck! If you struggle, you can always advertise for adhoc care?

Would depend on your plan for maternity leave. If you were going to take a month off and I could arrange a couple weeks of hols and then a temp shildminder for the other two weeks, that would be fine. If you said "hmmm.. don't know maybe six months" then I'd look elsewhere because I would want be kids to be uprooted like that.

Agree. I think it really depends on your plans tbh. I originally planned to have 4 weeks off and only changed this because some parents were concerned that 4 weeks just wasn't enough, and tbh, I agree. I wouldn't expect any more than 12 weeks to be acceptable for these parents though as it doesn't matter what they think of me, if I was to take too long off, they'd end up too settled elsewhere. I also plan on having regular contact with mindees whilst I'm not working. I think for now you just need to get it clear in your head what you plan to do, all being well, and then see what happens

That makes sense looneytune, thank you. Its all a bit new and exciting and I have no idea what I could be entitled to as regards maternity allowance etc? ATM 12 weeks doesn't sound liek alot

Yorky - I'd LOVE longer but I just can't afford it as I earn a lot more now than I would get with maternity allowance! If I could afford longer with those payments, I'd then have to agonise over whether or not I wanted to start from scratch and loose my mindees, I think I'd find that very hard (not to fill vacancies but to not have my lovely mindees back!!)