When did you go back to work?

[peanutter]

I took 10 weeks off with DS (1 week before, 9 weeks after) and will get 12 weeks with Ziggy.

As I will probably be having a c-section this time around, we will decide much closer to the time when I will start my mat leave.

If I and Ziggy are doing well, it would be good to work right up to the date, so I have as much time as possible to bond and establish breastfeeding etc - but of course it will very much depend on how well we are beforehand, and what is best for Ziggy and me.

[meow]

I haven't gone back to work but I did have to do a nine week work placement for my degree. I planned to do it part time when my first was one but once we got there he was WAY too young in my eyes. So I put it off a year and did it two days a week when he turned two. I was pregnant with #2 then and now I have no plans to work till he's at least three.

[chody47]

I went back to work at 6 months. Partly money reasons, and partly because I felt like I was going crazy at home just doing baby things (I don't really have any friends with babies at the time, although there are some around now.....). My maternity leave could have been stretched out a bit longer, but we chose to take it at a higher rate of pay over a shorter period of time. TBH, at the moment I'm kind of wishing I didn't have to go back. I mean, I know that for us we need the money to get by (the effect of having an expensive house in a desirable suburb I suppose, but we wanted to get the house before having kids as we figured it would be harder once they were born ITMS?). I sometimes wish we had more financial freedom though. I'm actually wondering if we should move before having #2 so that I can stay home with them both for longer....