which solution have you found to look after your children : will you stay at home ? take a nanny ? go the nursery school ?
In the case of you go back to work, how are you going to organise yourself/the baby ?
It is not easy isn ... ?

Like you say it's very expensive. I have put my name on two nursery lists just in case. One next to where I live and one next to my workplace.
We haven't decided yet but or I will ask to work part time (but I'm sure that my workplace will desagree) or I work full-time and see if I can cope, if not I change job.
It's a hard-one !

i am like you i don't known.... I looked for childcare but the prices are crazy... and most of them are not open from 9am to 6pm!
i think I am going to see if I can work 2 or 3 days from home ( I do lots of things on computer so...) and the rest at the office but I am not sure about my boss answer!!!
For us to live on 1 salary will be quite hard ( morgage, car, etc!!!!) and we like to go on holidays ( like everyone!!) .
Otherwise my husband is considering to move job to have something more flexible and why not working as well half home/half office.
Unfortunalty for us no family around!! and friends have their own kids!!
I think we should meet one day to discuss all of that!
What do you think????
Emilie

i have no family around, just friends but i know i won't want to ask them to babysit everytime i will need one.
Where i live in Putney, it costs £190/week to put a baby in a full-time care and it is from 8am to 6pm. It is very expensive and personally i don't want to put my baby all this time in a nursery, i don't want to rush him in the morning, neither will I want. But in the same time, we are still renting so it is different.

If you can work from home, that should be great but you should know that it will be difficult to be focused on your work while your baby will be hungry or screaming or just in need of you. I heard women saying that in fact they work during their evening when their husband is back at home cause they can't before!

I am going to Ireland for holidays but we can arrange to meet up later during June/July, for a saturday afternoon-tea break.

Waiting to arrange something, i hope you are fine and start to find your sparkling form back.
My baby is growing fast, now when he moves, i can see my trousers moving, "ca saute"!! it is fascinating and scaring in the same time...

What about food, do you follow a special diet ? do you cook a lot ?
Take care and speak soon,
C.

I know in France it's common to put small children in creche while the Mother's work, but in England Mothers tend to take a few years off to bring up their kids if possible, because childcare is expensive and it's not state-subsidised at the moment. I think indiviual choices depend on each person, but it's quite common to take as much maternity leave as you can, until your child is old enough to be looked after, then go back part-time. Admittedly, it's much easier if you've got relatives or friends round the corner who can help!

and its what i will do. Take 1 year off and then i will ask for a part-time, it is only available since 2-3 years in my company. Working 3 days seems enough to start and my baby will be 10 months.
I simply hope my manager will accept otherwise i will look for another company.
Have a nice day!