I'm currently on a traineeship which finishes 12th Dec, I then have a temporary position at the place where I am working at the moment which will go until 6 Feb. After that I'm not sure if there will be another position there available for me, my supervisor is trying (without much success at the moment!) to get funding from the budget to employ me in a full time position. I'm due to have bubs in late June/early July, so potentially I may not have a job from Feb until then. I don't like my chances of getting a job in another organisation being pg, and to be honest I do kind of understand why an employer wouldn't want to employ me at the moment, although I know it is discrimination...

DF & I were talking about it last night, he pretty much said that he expects me to go straight back to work after having the baby (or within say 3 months of having it). He is self-employed and mostly works from home, however he does sit in front of his computer for around 18+ hours a day...occasionally he gets IT jobs out in the field, but I don't see how believes he can run his business and look after the baby while I am at work..I mean, being a stay at home parent is a full time job in itself! Besides, I know I would prefer to be a SAHM, and definitely do not think I would be ready within 3-6 months of having birth to turn around and go back to work again...

DF believes I should, because we need the money, at the moment while his business is doing ok, it's not exactly raking it in and he isn't drawing a wage from the business at all, so I guess I am sort of the main breadwinner (on my crappy trainee wage ). He can be stubborn, and hard-headed, particularly if he strongly believes in something, he won't back down. I don't know how to tell him that I am just not going to be ready to go back to work that soon, and how does he expect to do his own work, and look after a little baby as well? You can't just feed it and put it back to bed again...it's a lot more involved than that.
I'm not sure if we will be eligible for any assistance from Centrelink, as his business does bring in quite a lot of money (but a lot goes back out in expenses too...). Can't remember the exact financials, but DF doesn't think we will get anything from them. Sent them an enquiry email last night so will see what that brings.

Oh boy...does he see why I worry about money now??? He always keeps telling me, dont worry, it will be fine blah blah blah...well, I don't think it will be!

And if you got through all that...you deserve a big block of choccie