Well i'm super clucky but Dh and I have decided to wait a few months before TTC so that we will be entitled to paid maternity leave as it is meant to come in next year. I had to go back to work 6mths after Olive was born and spent half our savings.
So I was wondering is anyone else waiting until this happens or am I the only one?
People think we are weird!
Last edited by Crystalwings; February 10th, 2010 at 06:46 PM.
No, while we are TTC - have been for almost 4 years - I won't seriously get into charting and temping until I've been in a permanent job for 6 months, so I can guarantee Maternity Leave. Just good sense I reckon!
DH wanted to but I convinced him otherwise.
I'm not convinced that they will bring in any type of paid mat. leave and my theory was that there will be so many people doing the same thing it will be even harder to get decent service in a hospital so we opted not to wait.
Not to mention I didn't want to change from our original plan to have kids close in age.
There will likely be an election before it comes in, so I am not hedging my bets on it actually happening just yet.
I think the scheme is a lot better than what we have now, and as I run my own business I think I still qualify - not certain about that. But reality for me is we would have to put of TTC for quite a while due to my risks of prem labour and I don't want to put it off and then go through a long TTC process and then be a lot older when we want to try for No'3
You're not weird - we did talk about it but..at 35 I think it would be foolish of me to throw a single cycle away! And we will struggle financially with another unpaid mat leave.
We obviously didn't wait either (but after years of TTCing there was no way we would have anyway)
But in the end it isn't going to be significantly different to what you get with the baby bonus now. I think that the maximum additional benefit you can get (depending on your tax and centrelink benefits etc) is about $2000 more than the baby bonus. (And I am out of pocket far more than that just on my Obs plannign and management fee!)
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