Working after giving birth

we have the same situation when i was still pregnant with my eldest son who is now 5 years old. after giving birth i resigned from my job because i really need to take care of our new born baby 24 hours a day. I don't want somebody to take care of him since newborn baby are so fragile, now that he can do things by himself and can be left with somebody i could trust, i could now find a job and work again.

In my opinion, I believe that if your husband can support you and the baby, then concentrate on raising your new baby, for he/she is your first priority now that they are here. Before your baby arrived, you were driven by your career. Now that you have brought a precious life into the world, you should be driven by your baby. You can never regain what you loose by not being there in the beginning stages. If you can stay at home and spend quality time with your new bundle then do that. A lot of women wish they were in your shoes, I know I would have given anything to stay at home with all four of my babies until they didn't need me anymore. and that's just mi3centsworth.

I wish I could have stayed home after my daughter was born, but I had to go back to work after the six weeks were up. My husband lost his job during my pregnancy, and we needed the money. Fortunantly, I was able to stay home a few month when my sone was born. I got that time.

As far as what you should do, you said your husband could support both you if you were to stay home. Why don't you take that opportunity, and stay home to raise your child. You'll never get that time back. After a while, you can alwasy go back to work.

You could always try and find something you can do from home, like sell Avon or create your own business. This way you can have the best of both worlds. I'm sure you'll think of something. Necessity is the mother of invention afterall.

Instead of going back to work after I had my first son I decided to go back to school and earn a degree. I was able to earn my degree online through an accredited college. We used the extra income from my financial aid to support ourselves while I did so. I ended up getting my Bachelors degree and right now I am also working on my Master's degree. I plan on going back into the work field when my son starts school.

I've been a working mom and stay at home. My advantage was having my mom able to provide 'daycare' to my oldest.

Think about if you'd really make money if you worked. You will eat out more if you work a full time job, and more expensive "convienience" food from the store. You will want to spend time with the baby, not cook. At least I did.

Unless you are fortunate like me and have a relative happy to watch baby for little or nothing, you'll have a daycare bill.

For me, my mom couldn't handle 2 on my work schedule and I would've made nothing after paying daycare, that was when I chose to stay home.

THere's also the option to work opposite shifts so you have little to no daycare costs. I've known two couples who have done this, one is still together. You will*never* see each other basically unless you both happen to have weekends off I guess, and even then if the night person sleeps most of the day you won't...can be hard.

i stayed w/ my baby..i dont trust "yaya" or nannies who will watch over w/ my son..you still can earn money once your baby is old enough to be left in nannies..coz u never knw what if the nanny will fall the baby down accidentally..u cant turn back the time,n since ur hubby can still provide to both of u then a little sacrifice for your son is enough.