Thank you so much ladies! I really appreciate your advise and support. I had a big talk to hubby who is being great about all of this, we decided that now is the best time for me to cut back my hours and in about 6-8 weeks time I'll start working from home. We told the in laws, who were also pretty good about it (I didn't tell them why we came to this decision, but just said its time to look for more staff to step into my shoes). We will be interviewing over the next couple of weeks, then when I start training, I'll be able to cut my hours down.

As for MIL for now things have settled down as I did get a bit stroppy the other day when she made a decision about my home that I really didn't appreciate. Before bub is born we will definatly be setting down some ground rules (nicely).

Thank you once again.