Working Mothers in General Reviews

Choosing to return to work and leave your child with completed strangers is the hardest decision in the world. I agonized for weeks about it, looking into all the possibilities of how we could manage without me working full time. The bottom line for me was we couldn't manage and I had to return to work. My mother didn't ...  Read the complete review

Every persons circumstances are different, so I don't think that there is a right or wrong in this debate, I only know of my experience. When I fell pregnant with my son (who is now seven months old ), I was hoping to take the maximum one year maternity leave so that I could spend as much time as possible with my baby. Also, after ...  Read the complete review

It is very difficult to label such a diverse group of people into convenient cliches as some would like to do, things like "irresponsible working mothers deserting their children" or "career woman sacrifices family life" or the idea of the super mum who can do it all, successful career, loving family life and happy ...  Read the complete review

For me I would consider being a mother a full time job in itself so how someone can also consider following a career is beyond me, surely the decision to bring a child into the world is a conscious decision and involves a commitment on behalf of both parents to raise the child and as such the idea that both parents would immediately go back to ...  Read the complete review

I too am one of the guilty ones. my daughter is seven now though and I only work when she is at school. Like most people we planned ahead when i was pregnant. I would work up to 4 weeks before the due date and have off the full paid amount of maternity (this was only 18 weeks at that time). then i would return to work part time and my ...  Read the complete review

I myself am a working mother. When I first went off on maternity leave , I was adamant that I would be taking a year off work ( 9 months paid and 3 months unpaid ). As it turned out I only got to 9 months and went back to work. My reasons were due to finances but mainly because I was suffering from post natal depression and I wanted to get my life ...  Read the complete review

Rachida Dita, the glamorous French Finance Minster, amazed and annoyed women around the world in equal measure by returning to work just four days after giving birth. Now I don't know how knackered women are after giving birth, whether it was the middle class 'slash and dash' or not, but one would suspect their not as fresh as a daisy. The fact ...  Read the complete review

I've been reading the articles in this section with great interest. I studied early childhood and it's something that I'm very interested in. I noticed that, as you would expect, most of the articles are by working mothers and I thought it might be useful to give the view of the child. My mother has had to work for most of my life. When ...  Read the complete review

When I found out I was first pregnant, I had no hesitation on planning to give up work. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy my work, or that the money was not an issue, but it just seemed to me at that time that it was the right thing to do - to be a Mummy means being at home for your Children. We scrimped and saved in order to be able to manage on ...  Read the complete review

I am 23 years of age and a working mum, this is a very hard topic for me to speak about as I don't have the choice of being a stay at home mum. When I found out I was expecting a baby I knew as the only wage earner in the house (my partner is disabled and due to my wage not entitled to any benefits) I would have to go back to work and ...  Read the complete review

I am a working mum, and i hate it !!!!! I had to carry on with my job as i was the higher wage earner and we just could not afford for me to give up work, so we decided that i would carry on and my husband would give up his job and he would stay at home and become a house husband. To start with it all seemed fine, and i thought i was ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a working mum, I like to think of myself as focussed on my career but at the same time I don't think I am, but I couldn't have been a full time stay at home mum. I have been lucky in that I can work a lot around my husbands working pattern and also have my parents to help with childcare which is a godsend and for the ...  Read the complete review

aving been both a mum working full time and then a stay at home mum(still a full time job just no pay!) i think that what im doing now working part time is both the best and the worst solution! I went back to work when my first child was 4 months old and not because i loved my career(i work at carphone warehouse!) but beacause we basically needed ...  Read the complete review

I feel that I am very lucky because as I only work part time, I get to spend quality time with my children as well. I would have loved to stay at home full time with my girls but, as with lots of people, we couldn't afford to manage all our financial commitments on just one salary. I also have to say though, that there is a part of me that likes ...  Read the complete review

Factory Work. Yep, You Too Could Be Like Me; Your Head All Bent Out Of Shape. This article could apply to any one, but I feel it could be particularly relevant to working mums as I work with a lot of them. So, it's for working mums, rather than about them. Enjoy. We’ve all got to work; it’s a fact of ...  Read the complete review

Its one of those things that you look back on and say...'wish I could have done that differently'. Of course, I only speak for myself, but it was personal circumtances that 'pushed' me into going back to work when my son was only six months old. For a start, I had felt out in the cold as regards to employment. My job at the time was ...  Read the complete review

I am a full time working mother of 3 little girls aged 7,4 and 2 and I wish to say it was the best move I ever made for my sanity!!! Long gone are the teletubbies and tweenies for conversation and its hello big wide world of adults, it's a great way to feel needed in a way that doesn't involve nappies and snotty noses. I have had ...  Read the complete review

Firstly let me confess - I’m a working father, but I think working mothers may find this interesting. I’m actually getting excited about work. My employers have decided to embrace ‘Work Life Balance’. Gone are the days when you started work at 9.00 am, finished at 5.30 pm, had an hour off for lunch and asked permission to ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago I worked as a Sister in a very busy accident and emergency unit. In truth, I ws never realy 'off duty' so to speak. When I was at home I would often get phone calls asking me to come in and sort out problems which the staff on duty at the time were unable to deal with. At this point in my life I had three ...  Read the complete review

After my first child was born I worked from 2pm - 10pm which meant using a childminder's services for only half a day from Mon-Fri. My husband would collect him and look after him each evening. I feel this was a benefit to my son as he was used to mixing with children and entered nursery and school without any problems. In addition childcare ...  Read the complete review