I was pleasantly surprised to find out last week that my employer is paying my share of my medical insurance and I am accruing both sick and vacation time while I am on maternity leave. I think that is amazing considering I didn't qualify for either FMLA or short term disability. (Long story, but I would have gotten STD if Charlotte had been born just 16 hours later.) I also asked about working just 30 hours a week and they are going to look into it. I hope it works out. I want to spend as much time as possible with Charlotte. This baby time is so precious. I feel like if I blink it will be over.
They are letting me bring Charlotte with me to work until she is 4 months old, but she will have to start daycare in February. I am using my work daycare, which is subsidized by the tribe (I work for the Gila River Indian Community), so it is cheap. I stopped by there today to drop off some paperwork and to see where they are at with availability. Currently there are two workers in the infant room and only two babies. Their official ratio is 1:3 with no fewer than two workers at any given time. I still hate the idea of daycare though. Why can't the economy be doing better, so I can stay home with my baby?
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I went to work full-time when Justice was 8 weeks. And, I have to say, that if you have a daycare provider who you feel really cares for your child and communicates with you about what they do and like/don't like, you will be fine. I spend at least 15 minutes with our provider everyday playing with the other kids and talking about their day.
And, with having a little "baby blues" after having Justice, returning to work was the best thing to get me going again. Hope that doesn't return this time!
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