Is anyone else due later this year and really stressed about maternity leave and pay and how the hell you're going to make it work financially? I'm due withbour second baby at the start of December and after the 6 weeks leave at 90% salary I honestly don't know what we're going to do.
If you don't have savings for it and only get statutory from work, how are you planning to make it manageable for your family?
And please don't say 'you should have planned for this' or 'its irresponsible not to have savings for it', we weren't even sure we'd ever be able to have another baby, and certainly not without help and a lot of pre-planning, so this baby was a very happy surprise. As such we were not anticipating me taking maternity leave in the immediate future so had not financially prepared for it. Our daughter is in primary school so we don't have childcare costs currently, and my partner works full time.
Just looking for anyone that is in the same position or has any ideas we might not have thought of that could help.
TIA x