This site is for you and any parent wanting more time with their child. Please be part of it and help us build a circle of support. There are 3 ways to participate in sharing your ideas.
1. Do contact us with any comments, suggestions or feedback about the book or about this website.
2. Any tips you have would be particularly welcomed and these could be anything from a budget family recipe to a great money making idea.
We will use any we feel to be useful in our tips of the month and with your
permission in a possible future publication.
3. Each month on our tips page we will profile a parent who has achieved time off with their babies and share their story. If you would like this to be you please send a photo and a 300 word account of how you have managed to afford time off with your baby,
Please email me at becky@babybudgeting.co.uk or use the form below.
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Your book is wonderful, thank you!
After expecting to return to work as a Homeless persons officer after a short maternity leave I have had to leave work 8 weeks early due to SPD and my contract isnt being renewed for me to return. Working in local authority I always expected my contratct to be renewed.
I bought your book from Amazon the day I found out I wouldnt have a job to retun to and eagerly awaited it’s arrival. I read through it one sitting and felt so confident that we can manage only on my Husbands Self Employed wage.
I am 31, married and due to have my fIrst baby in May and I so far have only bought the absolute essentials and unisex clothes. I have also approached friends asking if they might have anything i can borrow. I tell them that I intend to stay at home as long as i possibly can and all seem very keen to help the cause with donations and suggestions,
So far my best acheievment is a holiday at a family friends cottage in Somerset. It is truly the most beautiful village and we have been offered it for a week whilst they go away in September. My parents explained our situation and they were happy to help give us a holiday whilst their cottage was empty! I cant wait to seek out some beautiful contry walks with Stanley our boxer dog and our baby.
I have recommended this book to all my friends be they expectant or new mothers.
Thanks Becky, I look forward to the email updates!!
Kate.
Hi – i’ve just subscribed to your blog to be received by email.
I would love to receive one of your flexi-baths up for grabs. I am expecting my 2nd child and our daughter is already 3 years old. We will be travelling to various weddings this summer and hopefully stretch a holiday into our budget this year so this would be really useful. We don’t have a baby bath, our daughter used an in bath support but with a baby bath she can be more involved in baby care and create a greater bond with her new sibling.
So glad I’ve accidently come across your blog. I’ve just started maternity leave today. I was forced to return to work when our daughter was 11 months due to my husbands visa difficulties, I would love to be able to manage our budget and spend more time off with this little one, as well as with my daughter before she starts school.