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11-11-2012 at 7:12 PM
elvinnoe
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Work/SAH (clicky poll)

For now, DH and I aren't in the financial position for day care, so the plan is for me to stay at home with the baby and finish school via online/evening classes.  Just curious what everyone else's plans were.

Post-baby plans poll

  • Returning to work full time (44.8%)
  • Returning to work part time (14%)
  • Staying home (36.8%)
  • Other (4.4%)
  • Total Votes: 315
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11-11-2012 at 7:14 PM
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I am going back after 12 weeks because I want to, not because I have to!
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11-11-2012 at 7:21 PM
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I'm continuing to stay home.
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11-11-2012 at 7:28 PM
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Going back to work full-time after 12 weeks.  Staying at home just isn't for me.
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11-11-2012 at 7:28 PM
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I'm returning to work full time at the beginning of the school year. I'll be taking off the rest of this school year once baby comes.
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11-11-2012 at 7:35 PM
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I am planning on working part-time, but I also work from home.


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11-11-2012 at 7:39 PM
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I would love to SAH but DHs career is a bit tumultuous so the idea of being totally unemployed makes us both nervous... thus I will be working either PT or PRN [as needed] to keep some sort of active employment, but only when someone can watch LO unless I need to go back.
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11-11-2012 at 7:40 PM
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I'll have to go back full time after probably six weeks. I would love to find something part time but as of now, I'll be returning to my full time job.
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11-11-2012 at 7:51 PM
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I am a SAHM for now. In a few months I will start the enrolling process with college and start that in the coming fall.
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11-11-2012 at 7:59 PM
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Full time while DH finishes the PhD. Then we'll see what happens...
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11-11-2012 at 8:14 PM
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With DD I was able to stay at home for a year on Canadian Maternity Leave.

Now that we're down in New Zealand and only on DH's income, I'm staying at home for now, but will find work hopefully when #2 is close to a year or slightly over.  I need to find work in order to afford daycare, but can't find daycare until I have work....weird circle.

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11-11-2012 at 8:20 PM
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I live in the US, but I am able to take about 6 months off before I have to go back. I know I couldn't do it at 3 months, but at 6 months with DD I was totally ready. I think it makes a difference too that my salary is significantly more than the cost of child care. We would really struggle if I stayed home. With me working we live very comfortably.
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11-11-2012 at 8:46 PM
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I work from home full time and will be returning after 7 weeks. DH will be taking 2-3 weeks off so it'll be like I'm home with her for 9-10 weeks. Then she will go to daycare 4 days a week and my MIL will watch her 1 day a week.

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11-11-2012 at 8:47 PM
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Financially I have to go back.  But I'm a teacher so I will only have 4 more months until summer break, without a pay check.
 
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11-11-2012 at 8:48 PM
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I voted other, because while I will be working some, it will only be PRN.  So, technically I could be working part-time, or I could be working not at all, as I get to pick out what shifts if any I'd like.  It will all depend on our bills that month with how much I'm actually working.
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11-11-2012 at 8:53 PM
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I started my own consulting business, so I pick and choose what I work on, when I work, and how much I work. This has resulted in an average of 10-20 hours a week most weeks, with some weeks little or no work.

This is fine for us - it allows me to basically SAH, we don't need regular DC (although LO's grandma and aunt help us occasionally), I don't have any lapse on my resume, I get to help financially, and it reduces DH's stress over finances.

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11-11-2012 at 9:13 PM
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I voted SS b/c you didn't have "undecided." This is our 3rd LO and I've been working FT for 10 years at the same employer, but we aren't sure what I will do after this one is born. My job is great, but it's just too much with DH's crazy and unpredictable schedule as a business owner and soon-to-be THREE small kids. I definitely want to

1. cut down to PT,

2. stay home, or

3. go back FT on a limited term--i.e. through June, or something like that.

My commute is also "long" for me now that we have kids (30 min there, 40 min home), and that makes a difference. Hard to give up my salary and benefits, though.

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11-11-2012 at 9:14 PM
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I will be out for the first 12 weeks and then back to the office. I feel a little less guilty because my mother will watch DD for the first few months before she goes to daycare. I wish I could stay a little longer with baby before going back to work but I couldn't stay at home; I don't think I could handle it.
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11-11-2012 at 9:57 PM
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I put "other" because our plans are SO up in the air right now! The goal is that I won't have to go back to work, at least not for very long, but it's entirely dependent upon whether or not my DH finds work, when he finds work, what kind of work he finds, (he's just finished his schooling to teach math.) It's just all completely out of our hands.
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11-11-2012 at 10:15 PM
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I've been a SAHM for 3 years and look forward to spending a few months with this LO, and then returning to work full time next fall.
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11-11-2012 at 10:16 PM
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I'll be working full time, but I work from home. In theory it sounds like a plan, but I've a feeling it will be much trickier than expected to still make my 45 hour minimum quota every week.
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11-11-2012 at 10:52 PM
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I voted that I will be returning to work full time, however my DH will become a SAHD after this one is born.  
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11-11-2012 at 11:32 PM
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I've been a SAHM since August and will continue to do so.
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11-12-2012 at 5:50 AM
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Working outside the home isn't for me.  I don't plan on working again.  I think that when my kids are through school, I'll look for volunteering of some sort.  Till then, I'll raise my kids, volunteer at their schools when the time comes and take care of the home.
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11-12-2012 at 6:10 AM
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amcourt09:
I'll have to go back full time after probably six weeks. I would love to find something part time but as of now, I'll be returning to my full time job.

I'm in the same boat!  I am returning FT, but I will look really hard for a PT job.  
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11-12-2012 at 6:25 AM
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I am the main breadwinner but I will drop down to parttime for as long as I can afford it. DH works from home but with 2u2 I want/need to be home more. If I could afford to not work, I would LOVE to SAH with my babies.
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11-12-2012 at 8:36 AM
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SummerOH:

Going back to work full-time after 12 weeks.  Staying at home just isn't for me.

This for me too!
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11-12-2012 at 9:07 AM
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peacelove&mama:
I'm continuing to stay home.

This. I am hoping that my business as a Thirty-One consultant continues momentum and I do not have to take on another daycare child when the boy I watch drops to part-time in January.  
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11-12-2012 at 9:23 AM
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I'll start working from home at 6 weeks part-time and then I'll go back full time at 12 weeks.
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11-12-2012 at 9:45 AM
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I'm staying at home for 6 months. When we move in June my goal is to get a PT job in the Philippines.

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