I'm glad she is on the formula now too.I had a confusing time as I was being advised by two different health care professionals, one from my early childhood centre who was an advocate of breastfeeding & kept insisting I should NOT use formula & that charlotte would be fine on breastmilk alone, then another from tresillian who was VERY concerned about Charlottes weight & insisted I give her formula supplement & even rang the midwife at the early childhood centre & had WORDS with her about the advice she had been giving me.
As for finances, I have paid HUGE amounts of taxe for the last 6 years & seing as I have one this i feel I should now be getting some sort of subsidy from the government to help me stay home with my baby for her first year, I have applied for family assistance but I think I will get something like 40 dollars a fortnight.
For me to be able to afford to be on maternity leave I have had to pay me entire salary into the morgage so that the extra money can now be used to make morgage repayments while I have no maney coming in.Arians salary isn't even enough to cover one morgage repayment.We have ahd a little extra coming in too as i had 7 weeks of leave saved up & they gave me a holiday loading on my pay which has really helped with the bills.
You would think they could make it a bit easier on mothers on maternity leave, I think we should get 6 months pay instead of 3.
I have nightmares about going back to work & not being with Charlotte.I'm so used to being there when she has a tummy pain to massage her back & feeding her & playing with her.I just feel like I will cry all day when I have to be away from her.
Now to baby fashion for tomorrows picnic, I guess you should dress her in something thats covering but not sweltering & bring a jacket as weel in case it gets a bit chilly.I had these gorgeous little shoes for charlotte to wear that I got at the pumkin patch sale & I tokk her out in them the other day when it was sunny we went walking & when we got back home she only had one shoe on! she must have lost one one the way home, boo hoo, they were so cute.
Some so called 'experts' are ridiculously fanatical about breastfeeding only...even when it's in the babys best interest to have formula.
I think I'm not going to get much more than $40/fortnight either. It's so unfair. In some ways the govt seems to reward people for stuffing up and not people like us that really struggle to make something of ourselves.
Most people don't get any paid maternity leave. I got 2 months of it and I also had 6 weeks holiday pay owing to me....no loading though.
Arielle will more than likely be dressed in pink too:). That or mauve...depends on the weather.
As for finances, I have paid HUGE amounts of taxe for the last 6 years & seing as I have one this i feel I should now be getting some sort of subsidy from the government to help me stay home with my baby for her first year, I have applied for family assistance but I think I will get something like 40 dollars a fortnight.
For me to be able to afford to be on maternity leave I have had to pay me entire salary into the morgage so that the extra money can now be used to make morgage repayments while I have no maney coming in.Arians salary isn't even enough to cover one morgage repayment.We have ahd a little extra coming in too as i had 7 weeks of leave saved up & they gave me a holiday loading on my pay which has really helped with the bills.
You would think they could make it a bit easier on mothers on maternity leave, I think we should get 6 months pay instead of 3.
I have nightmares about going back to work & not being with Charlotte.I'm so used to being there when she has a tummy pain to massage her back & feeding her & playing with her.I just feel like I will cry all day when I have to be away from her.
Now to baby fashion for tomorrows picnic, I guess you should dress her in something thats covering but not sweltering & bring a jacket as weel in case it gets a bit chilly.I had these gorgeous little shoes for charlotte to wear that I got at the pumkin patch sale & I tokk her out in them the other day when it was sunny we went walking & when we got back home she only had one shoe on! she must have lost one one the way home, boo hoo, they were so cute.
I think I might dress charlotte in pink. :)
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I think I'm not going to get much more than $40/fortnight either. It's so unfair. In some ways the govt seems to reward people for stuffing up and not people like us that really struggle to make something of ourselves.
Most people don't get any paid maternity leave. I got 2 months of it and I also had 6 weeks holiday pay owing to me....no loading though.
Arielle will more than likely be dressed in pink too:). That or mauve...depends on the weather.
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