****Summer Cupcakes Bump Buddies ~ 8 BABY GIRLS & 4 BABY BOYS BORN ****

[strawberry19]

i have looked but im useless at finding out about things we rent privetly and wont be allowed to be on income support or housing benefit and finding a house with a landlord that would accept either would be a nightmare!! from what i can see we will only be getting child tax credit and working tax credit and child benefit.. we will actually have more money after the baby then we do now.. which is bizare and to me just doesnt sound right!!
between us me and oh earn about £1,400 a month which is bit pants after all bills and rent go out

 

[hch]

we are only entitled to child tax and child benefit ! have never claimed any of the others. not sure why we dont get working tax? maybe because i dont work!??? i should look that up really!

 

[lolley]

you only get working tax credit if your household earnings are below about £14000 pa

Im hoping to work until the school Whitson holiday so the end of may. Then my maternity will start when school goes back after the weeks holiday Im going back to work after as my job is really good and quite good pay. My DH is thinking of working from home and being a stay at home daddy

I would love to be at home but jobs like mine are few and far between and there is no way i would get another chance like this.

 

[strawberry19]

hmm maybe il have to look into it then just been playing around with a benefits calculator on money for mums but i dont think its that accurate i done it with me working first and what we would get and then without me working and obviously it upped it but im sure if that calculator is very accurate maybe il have a look on the tax credits site i know they have a calculator on there.. i work about 20 odd hours a week usually 8.30 till 1.00 every day so bub would only be in childcare half a day and we would get the childcare element which pays upto 80% of the bill ... still have to pay to bring my child to work with me but i think id rather my baby go with my friend who is a child minder while i was at work.. just to keep work and home seperate! ive seen a cowroker struggle with having her children with her at wrk she said she wouldnt do it again if she has another

 

[strawberry19]

lolley you do sound like you really enjoy your job!! really wish i could say the same but its just all too much at the minute

 

[hch]

you only get working tax credit if your household earnings are below about £14000 pa

i knew that! hahahaha! sometimes i really need to think abit harder! pregnancy brain!


lolley what do you do for a living

 

[hch]

strawberry do you work in a nursery?

 

[lolley]

I think if everyone is honest most people don't enjoy going to work. I wish i could stay at home with my boys i love the holidays. When all the other moms are moaning they want their kids back at school im enjoying every minute

I work in a high school with visually impaired students. I am employed by the local authority and put into the school as a specialist. I work 30 hours a week with 2 girls at the moment.

 

[lolley]

just off to have tea ladies back on later x

 

[strawberry19]

yeah i work in a nursery hun and with the babies too so it would be really hard for me to have my baby at work with me everyone always thinks its great to take baby to work with you but its really not! and plus i cant be doing with my boss and co workers picking about things about the way i want to bring my child up would just feel like my baby is bing judged every day!

 

[foxforce]

Hi ladies

Hope your all well? sorry some of you are gagging I get that when I brush my brush my teeth euw

Lilly your so lucky living in London for the shopping! And working on the celebs too in reply to yesterday, I'm sure you'll get all the goss! Can you say who you work with out of interest?

I think I'll be finishing work around end of May probably use some leave, I'll be returning to work after my full maternity leave plus additonal annual leave I'll have to use so roughly 10/11 months after having bubs. I also have a decent job and will be going back on reduced hours (30hrs) Mum will help out with babysitting as we both work in the safe job and work shifts including full nights which will awkward at times but work has a child flexible policy so should be ok. I wish I could stay at home but again need to keep the job and money would be tight if I did.

Having spicy meatballs for tea tonight ..mmmm not had it in a while looking forward to it!

 

[aileymouse]

Hi all I had my midwife appt. All is well. Heard the heartbeat but only for about 10 seconds and took her ages to find it, but she said it sounds healthy.

I'm thinking of starting my mat leave at the end of may/start of June. I would leave now if I could....

 

[FLGAL82]

Foxforce-spicy meatballs sounds so good for dinner.I love anything spicy right now.=)

 

[hch]

oooops i had a maccy ds! :/

 

[lilly77]

hi girls

Aaah i hope to be stopping work early June - I don't work every day so it's not too hard on me, i can pick and choose my jobs which is nice. I'll probably be staying at home with baby for about 6 months, but I'll only work 2 or 3 days a week being self employed.

foxforce ohhh you can see some celebs i've done, here's the link to my site if you wanna take a look! www.lyndsaylillykeys.com - although not all the celebs are up there as i do lots of tv (so no printed images for my site) need to sort out my showreel! I also love my job and love that sometimes i work 4 hour days and sometimes 17 hour days! I'll definitely be choosing 4 hr days once baby is here.

I just had chilli and soy marinaded tuna for dinner, was yum (considering its from a studio canteen!)

hope everyone is good today... YAY AVOCADO size too! I LOVE avocado's too

ps i've had a bit of rubbish afternoon though if any of you guys saw my other thread.. grr! thanks to you girls who commented!

 

[Starglow]

Well I definatly need a light food day tomorrow. I just feel like I'm gonna burst! I seem to want carbs and not protein which isnt usual for me.

I'll be stopping work mid June and take the summer off. I'll continue with my evening teaching every other week when hubby gets home early and can take over mid september I'm not sure with my day time teaching at the college what's happening yet or how much maternity leave and pay I can get. We're in talks. I'd love to be at home for a while to focus on baby but I've spent 7 years working my business up to a high standard. Giving it up would be hard. Or handing it over to someone else wouldn't feel so good. I'll update when I know more

Oooohhhhhh Lilly only 3 more sleeps Hun till your scan. Woohooooo.

Xxxxxxxx

 

[hch]

3 more sleeps lilly! how exciting!


i cant see your site its not working for me!


right as of 2moro im going to be good! whos with me! again! LOL! x

 

[Itsychik]

Wow... I wasn't really on today and I missed 4 pages!

Umm... soo.. work? In the Netherlands, every pregnant woman is guarenteed 16 weeks of 100% paid maternity leave Which you're required to start at least 4 weeks before your due date. So my leave will start on/around May 28th

After that I will work reduced hours as well... DH and I are still deciding this. Either I'll work 3 days a week (24 hours) or we'll both work 4 days a week (and my MIL has offered to babysit one day a week). DH and I earn about the same, so that would also be a large chunk of income to give up if I stopped. I think I'll enjoy having something outside of 'being at home' to do. I plan on looking for a new job sometime after my leave is over (closer to home, hopefully higher paying). But we'll see!

Lilly, I didn't see your other thread. What happened? Sorry you had a bad afternoon

I haven't been gagging during the day... *knocks on wood* but still have m/s (although now it's literally just in the morning, thankfully).

Anyways... I'm off to bed ladies! I hope you're all doing well

 

[Ashley2189]

I don't work so I have no comment on maternity leave lol OH works, and I get paid a very good amount of money through the government just for attending school because my dad was in the military and passed some of his benefits to me. So all my money goes straight into savings because I'm not sure just how long I'll continue to receive that money. I'm not actually worried about it, I'm very good at budgeting money and not spending when money is tight. We'll make it work. There would be no point for me to get a job. One - working, being pregnant, AND going to nursing school just isn't possible for me. I'd be way too stressed out and wouldn't have time for ANYTHING. Two - if I did start working, I'd be in a minimum wage job that probably wouldn't even cover the cost of daycare. So it's pointless.

I'm going to try to keep up with you ladies, but my classes just started today and I'm going to be EXTREMELY busy. My guess is that I'll still come on regularly, just might not post as much. Or maybe I'll end up coming on here and complaining to you all while I'm taking a break from studying!

p.s. I'll be an avocado tomorrow!! yipee!!!!

 

[bluestarlight]

Wow, I only get 8 weeks maternity leave here, but at full pay. I will probably be working straight up til i give birth. My work is very nice, I'm a research lab manager. I spend about half my day sitting and half my day running around and checking thing. I love my job, they would probably be lost without me too. Don't know what they are going to do when I'm gone, my boss always plans things last minute.

Was doing OK yesterday, outside the usual morning sickness, except last night i had to pee really bad around midnight...and i missed the last 2 steps on the stairs. My husband and I live in a finished attic at my parents, the stairs are really steep. I live with my parents because my dad has been out of work and ill for the past year and my mom needs the help. Anyways, pulled all the muscles in my back and side, bruised arm and bruised and cut knee. Called my doctor, they said to stay home from work and keep an eye on things. Everything went well today, no cramps or bleeding My hubby was really worried though. Wanted to cart me off to the hospital.

Now i might miss work tomorrow too...we are getting nailed with another snow storm...another 1-2 feet of snow. It will be really heavy right while we would be driving to work to. I carpool with my mom since we don't work too far from each other and she is worried about her car making it. My husband's work is already thinking about calling a snow day for tomorrow. Would be nice spending to spend it cuddling on the couch with some warm tea while its snowing out