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Need a job please

Please mommas i need a job that i can do from home. I live in Uk and I’m on my second pregnancy and with happened to me with my first pregnancy. Im not ready to be laid off work again because of pregnancy. Thank you 🫶🏾

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Money after bills and food

Hey ladies! How much are you left with roughly once all the bills have been paid, mortgage, food etc. I work two days a week at the moment and my partner works full time. I just don’t see how you can manage on such little 😱

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New job- child maintenance increase? UK

My daughter’s dad got a new job in July and said he’d be paying more child maintenance because he’s earning more. I didn’t know that he didn’t report the change of job to CMS, we were getting along so I left it. Now it’s come to paying, he’s refusing to pay more and saying he never said that (even though other peo...

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Maternity Leave

If I have requested 12 months' leave but want or need to go back to work earlier, can they say no?

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Work

Hey ladies,,, as a stay at home mommy, what paying job do you do?? Please help a frustrated, depressed, new mom

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Working from home

Any inspiration for working from home jobs? I definitely can’t return to my previous role, but have never worked from home before and no idea how it would even work with a baby! Any advice please let me know x

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Friend always asking for money

My Bestfriend and I have known each other for 15 years. We loss contact back in like 2014 because of her ex partner. Back in 2020 she message me and apologized for everything and I forgave her. Since then she’s always asking me for money I don’t mind landing her money if it was a short amount but she’s always asking...

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MediCal/kaiser insurance for baby?

Hi! Any moms here have experience with enrolling for public healthcare for their baby? Like MediCal, IEHP, etc? I want my baby to go to Kaiser Permanente hospitals and i know they accept/work with MediCal but I have no clue how to enroll my baby 😭 he isn’t born yet, I’m 35 weeks, but I just want to know the process…

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Online jobs

Does anyone know of any at home online jobs part time or full time being a full time mummy with hardly money coming in is hard

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Sure Start Mat Grant

I completed my Maternity Grant form a few days ago but only just managed to send it off today. Yesterday was the 6 month deadline but I just want to know if it will be accepted or rejected as I had signed and completed the claim form before this date?

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Help with RTW work anxiety

I’m currently on maternity leave, due to go back in January and I’m shitting it. I haven’t been to visit the ward I work on in months because the thought of it is so scary to me. I only worked on the ward for about a year and a half before leaving for maternity leave and honestly hardly have any friends there. I l...

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Can't find a job

Idk what else to do. I've gone through temp agencies but the hours conflict with school hours. I can't pass the assessments for these jobs on my own and I'm starting to doubt my abilities. I'm already homeless and in my car with my child and it's getting grim. Idk what else to do. I need a job to see my worth and of...

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Hi maternity pay query

Hi all, Can someone help me work out maternity pay entitlement? I started a job on 7th May. To qualify for occupational maternity pay, I need to have been working here for 12 months up to and including the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth. I worked it out that the soonest I could get pregnant woul...

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Affordable private midwives recommendations? (During home birth)

I recently found out my home birth plan it’s not going to work with the nhs due to “restructuring the services”. I’m desperate first because I have hospital trauma and mental health issues to deal with, I know it will be very hard for me having to deliver in a ward, even in a birth center (not guarantee there is roo...

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Extra money

What do you all do for extra cash? My husband and I do decent for ourselves but recently dug ourselves into a bit of a hole between moving & random things popping up we weren’t expecting. we are just trying to catch up. We both work full time but have evenings for something on the computer.

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Handicap placard

Has anyone gotten a temporary handicap placard due to their pregnancy? I don’t have complications with my pregnancy, I just have to park so far from my office and it’s getting harder and harder to walk that much 😣

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Things they don’t want you to know

Hey Ladies, If you live in CT & are currently pregnant, you can claim benefits, including a lump sum payment & salary for up to 15 months!! Message me, comment I’ll message you for more info. 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 spreading the word

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Maternity leave EI

Ok little confused here.. I know you need 600hours to get EI but do you need the "best weeks" too which I think is 21 in BC? If so, does that mean if you don't work 21 weeks and make at least $63k, you won't get the max benefits? Because that sicks then...600hours can be less than 21 weeks so then you are being forc...

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Does anyone have something that brings in income

I am currently on leave until Nov 15th. I do not plan to return to work as I will be home raising my child. I plan to get a side hustle or something to bring in income. Working from home is the goal but I don't want to sit in front of a computer all day. Looking to connect with other SAHM who "work" from home

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U/C Question

I'm a SAHM we do not claim benefits currently, i worked and then claimed U/C for the first 2 years of my sons life,I have one child and we are now expecting our second, for the first 2 years of a child's life the "main parent" can receive U/C without having to look for work etc.. does anyone know if I am able to cla...

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