Working Mums vs. Stay at Home Mums Reviews

I have been a working mum now since May 2005. My beautiful daughter Grace was born in January 2005 and I returned to work when she was four months old. I had wanted a bit more time off with her but had to start maternity leave at 30 weeks due to ill health so couldn't afford for me to off any longer. Right from the start I ...  Read the complete review

When I first had my son, I knew I wouldn't be able to give up work completely due to financial constraints but I did want to spend some quality time with him to capture all of those precious moments. I went back to work on 4 ish days a week but working an out of hours rota that meant that somedays I wouldn't get back to put my son to ...  Read the complete review

I'm 22 and have two children aged 2 and 3, when i fell pregnant with my first, my son, i had a good steady job working in a well known and very reputable store in milton keynes. i knew straight away i wanted to stay at home and raise my child, at least until he started school. My partner and i had discussed this and done the figures and ...  Read the complete review

I think that if a person (male or female) wants to stay at home with their children then that is their choice, providing that they can afford to do so without relying on unemployment benefit. For me there are a couple of parts to this debate. First there is the stay at home mum VS stay at home dad issue, then there's the living off ...  Read the complete review

When i was pregnant with my first child i continued to work right up until i was 34 weeks, the day i finished my boss called me into his office and asked me weather i was planning on returning to work! Before that point it simply hadn't occurred to me,weather i would or not and i told my boss i didn't know, but i was hoping ...  Read the complete review

I think that there are advantages and disadvantages to both sides of this topic. I am a working mum. Well I say that, but I only work 16 hours a week, so I have alot of time at home with my son who is nearly one. I decided to go back to work when he was neary nine months old, even though I could have had a year off from working. My ...  Read the complete review

I think of myself as a bit of both as I only work 3 days a week and so get to spend 2 days with my girls. I think the choice is completely personal to the individual mother. I personally couldn't be a stay at home mum full time as I need to retain the working me. I just feel swallowed up by being a mum being at home full time. Meaning ...  Read the complete review

I am lucky enough to be able to stay at home with my three children. My husband is a farmer and even once the children are all at school my job will be on the farm. Before I married I had done endless admin work but was just killing time until my family came along. I appreciate the position I am in and even though we do ...  Read the complete review

I dont judge a mum by whichever decision she chooses. I do, however, hold a strong opinion to those who judge stay at home mums as lazy, benefit scroungers. I am a stay at home mum. It was a decision me and my partner made together when we first had children, We both decided it would be better for me to stay home and get a job ...  Read the complete review

This is a very interesting subject and I dont like to make any judgement as every family situation is totally different. I am a mum to an 11 month old baby boy, when we decided we would like to start a family we both wanted me to be a stay at home mum if we could continue to do so. Financially we could afford all of our bills ...  Read the complete review

I don't really think there is a right or wrong answer to what is best, stay at home or work. I think there are too many people out there who judge - Stay at home and be lazy and get money off the government or work and fob your children off to someone else. That's not the case, well maybe for some but not the majority? I ...  Read the complete review

I have 1 child and I am a stay at home mum and I absolutely cherish the fact that I am able to stay at home and spend quality time with my child. My husband works full time and luckily we can manage on his wages which means I am fortunate to be able to stay at home. Being a stay at home mum is like working full time as you are ...  Read the complete review

I think this is an exceptionally interesting subject; working mums vs stay at home mums. My wife held down a job through our first 3 years of marriage but we had always known that when we started a family she would give up working until our kids were of school age then she would perhaps go back full time or even take on a ...  Read the complete review

I have two young daughters and I work full time. I have always worked and I don't really think it was an option for me to stay at home as I was the higher earner out of me and my partner and we really needed the money coming in after having two children. I work 32 hours a week and only work week day. I do 9 hours a shift so I ...  Read the complete review

I am a stay at home mum and I love every minute of it and wouldn't swap it for anything. I was working up until the last stages of my pregnancy and I knew that I wouldn't have been able to go back to work after I had my twins, as I would have been to tired and there is a lot to do when you have a two children. Being honest though I ...  Read the complete review

I can see exactly what everyone is saying on this subject. I was an at home mum for a while but my problem was i was a single mum and only 17, my parents were fantastic but i felt such an over welming guilt that i wasnt bringing in any money (Living at home still) i literally had my benefit which went on nappies and baby milk ...  Read the complete review

I personally think that if you can afford to stay at home then you should or at least for the first year. I am lucky that my partner has a good job and that I am able to stay home for the time being. I have been a stay at home mum now for about 4 years. I have been there through all of the "firsts" with my eldest son and now ...  Read the complete review

i worked full time up until 5 years ago when i fell pregnant,my then husband worked but we had to tighten our belts as it was a huge change only having one wage coming in. my husband left when my child was 8 weeks old as he had "another love interest"(thats the nice way of putting it)and so i had to go onto benefits ...  Read the complete review

This is a really hard decision to have to make i fully understand that some parents have to do it just to be able to afford to live which personally i think is really bad. We should be given a lot more support to be able to make decisions regardless of money. Luckily ive not had to go back to work as i was at university so just had a ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this review from the perspective of a stay at home mother, but one who weighed up the pros and cons and had a choice of either option. I will begin at the time in my life before I became a mother. I completed my schooling and immediately went into full time employment. I had a number of job changes as I gradually ...  Read the complete review