Hi all,

I need to decide fairly soon if I am going back to work part-time (DS is almost 5 months). I've done the figures with CL and it seems that (for example) if I earned $10 grand for the year, I would lose about $8 grand in CL. To me this doesn't really seem worth it, by the time you count petrol/car costs, work clothes etc. (DH would look after DS so no child care costs).

However, it seems kind of crazy that I'm better off staying with CL than working! I was wondering if anyone else has found themselves in this position? Long-term, of course, we'd like to be earning much more than we are now. But for the hassle (feeding-wise) and sadness of leaving DS I can't justify returning to work. But it seems I would need to be working virtually full-time (which isn't an option right now anyway) for the money to be worth it.

Any thoughts (and please let's not turn this into a debate about CL - I'm interested in your experiences - thanks )?