I’m currently on mat leave and due to return to work around the end of Jan as that’s when mat pay stops otherwise I would have taken a year off. When I was pregnant everyone was saying they would be happy to babysit if I wanted to go back full time, we were even organising days etc.. now I’m struggling to find childcare! It’s basically all down to my mum & sister. My mum isn’t in a good place atm so i would feel unbelievable amounts of guilt leaving dd with her as I’m not sure how she would cope. My sister has random weekdays off and although she over having dd I would feel guilty taking up her only day off (works some weekends) and dd would be with dh on the weekends I would be cue to work, obviously there’s no issue there. So really other than weekends I feel like I have no childcare. The last thing I want is to return to work and it doesn’t work out. My work days would be 8-5.30 and I couldn’t do half days either which would be a lot easier if I could & would plan to go back 3 days per week but on a rota basis if that makes sense. Any less days and I couldn’t afford it. I’ve looked into what benefits we could claim if I didn’t go back and it would be nothing because of what dh earns. However his wage barely covers his outgoings so covering mine too would be out the question. I’ve been in tears over what to do for weeks now as have to give Work 8 weeks notice to come back which is in the next few weeks and I just feel completely stuck! I’m sorry for rambling and not even sure what sort of answer I’m looking for really, guess I just wanted to voice my worries!
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21/11/2017 10:45
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