How long are you staying home w/baby

JimmysBride Posted: Jan 10, 2005 10:50 AM

How long are you staying home w/baby

before going back to work? And will you work full time or part time? SAHM for how long?

ddunne23 Posted: Jan 10, 2005 11:11 AM

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I am currently a SAHM indefinately. Lately though I have really been considering my going back to work options. Although I hate the idea of leaving Jack at daycare when we can afford for me to stay home, I'm starting to think I need an outlet for myself if even a couple hours a week. But I may not pursue that until he is a little older. I don't have a job to go back to since we moved from TX to OH when I was 6 months preggo and just never got another job.

jantany26 Posted: Jan 10, 2005 11:39 AM

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I'm currently a sahm indefinitely also. I'm planning on continuing my education but so far i just don't see myself leaving my baby with anyone else that is not me.

kptoys Posted: Jan 10, 2005 11:42 AM

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Before she was born I planned on going back to work 3 months later... but shes 2 1/2 and Im still home. I can't leave her. I will probably be a SAHM till all my kiddies are in school.

emilain Posted: Jan 10, 2005 11:52 AM

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I work p/t and I love it! I love being home with my kids, but I have huge student loans and went through a lot of schooling so I kinda need to stay in the loop and up on all that is going on in my field. It is a great balance, I work on mondays, I'm off tues and wed, 1/2 day thurs and work all day fri. I have my own private practice and I work on thursday nights from 5-9pm, but when I'm not with them either my husband or my parents are! I could never put them in daycare, too scary for me! I was out for 4 months with my first born, 4 1/2 months with my secind ad will be out for abour 5-6 months with this next one!!

soon2bMrs Posted: Jan 10, 2005 12:00 PM

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I am planning on staying out for 5 months and then I will begin to look for a new job. Right now I am currently unemployed (28 weeks pregnant). I would love to be a SAHM but DH doesn't believe we could afford it, we could but wouldn't be able to have the lifestyle we are used to. So it will be back to work for me.

antoinette Posted: Jan 10, 2005 12:42 PM

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I will most likely be working part time for a few years pending that we can survive financially. I plan on babysitting during the day for my sil child and they plan on paying me a small allowance for that to help out with our bills. -- I consider that a fair trade off for day care. Im going to try to find something that I could work pt at night for about 20 hours a week.

michele31 Posted: Jan 10, 2005 04:41 PM

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I was home for 14 weeks.

CarrieAnn Posted: Jan 10, 2005 06:07 PM

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The plan is to take the 12 weeks offered through FMLA (this keeps me out through June) then return in September when the baby is 6 months old.

AUG21-04 Posted: Jan 10, 2005 07:05 PM

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i stayed out for 3 months with my first and I plan to do the same with the second I have a way better job now than I did then so when the time comes if I feel I need to stay a little longer then I will. I am due in June so I will be atleast out till the beginning of Sept. So I can look forward to a nice summer.

070502 Posted: Jan 10, 2005 08:01 PM

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I'm a SAHW right now but will start contracting at home (hopefully) in the next few weeks then once the baby comes I will only work 20 hours a week out of our house.

I'm staying home for a while. My Dh works late nights and away from home alot so I won't be back in the workforce fulltime for a long time.

bride082003 Posted: Jan 10, 2005 08:58 PM

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I just returned to work part time and my son is 11 weeks old.

chmlengr Posted: Jan 10, 2005 11:16 PM

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I'm a full time SAHM but I also work PT for my company I was employed with for the past few years. I feel like I have the best of both worlds. I go into the office when DH is home and can do the rest of the work on my own time. Sometimes I find myself up at 2 a.m.trying to get the work done, but the few extra $$ it brings in helps me with all the little things I want for my son

Butterflybride Posted: Jan 10, 2005 11:19 PM

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I would love to be a SAHM indefinately, but I don't think that's going to be an option, so I will most likely take 12 weeks, then go back to work PT

Monkeybride Posted: Jan 11, 2005 12:03 AM

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I am definitley taking 12 weeks FMLA. May take some personal leave after that. I have to go over what my options are with my employer.

My plan is to go back FT for 1 year so we can be completely debt free except for our mortgage and then only work a couple of days a week. If that actually happens and I can leave the baby for 8 hours a day remains to be seen.

The good thing is that my mom is planning to move out here which will make leaving easier, but I am sure it will still be hard.

DaniRN Posted: Jan 11, 2005 09:05 AM

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I was home for 3 months and now I work part time. I'm a nurse so that means 2 overnight shifts a week.

t Posted: Jan 11, 2005 09:32 AM

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I was a sahm with my second till he was 2 and then I had to get back to work in an office enviorment. But, I ran my own business for several years to supplement my income I just closed my business about year and a half ago. since 1987 it was good to me