Remeber to check out the various child care options in your area. I would have gone back to work, but there is a 2 year waiting list where I live just for 1 day per week. So best not to assume that you can go back to work after 6 weeks, also depending on how the birth went and how you are coping you may not be physically or mentally capable.

It has impacted us, as we really can not do without a 2nd income, even just a part-time one would help. We had assumed it would take us a year and had planned to save, but we got pregnant quickly and had saved nothing. Also DH still spends like we have 2 incomes.

So I go with the others and suggest the living on 1 income for a while to see how you go and also to save.

Good luck