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Paid time off?

Hey girls! Can someone clarify something for me regarding midwife/hospital appointments while pregnant. Someone has told me I should be paid for these?

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30 weeks, physical/demanding job.

I’m 30 weeks and struggling with back ache as a new symptom. On top of sciatica… and the rest. I work in care and find the job very physical, plus I have to get timings perfect. Is anyone else in care and struggling? I’m due to leave for maternity as early as 34 weeks. Although I’m struggling so bad I don’t think I’...

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FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Hi, not from Florida but my job is hiring in the area due to Helene and Milton. Share pls

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Childcare choices reconfirmation advice

Mums I am devastated, I have a lot going on and life has got on top of me a bit lately which means I forgot to reconfirm my code for the 15 hours for working parents… Has this happened to anyone else? What happened? Do I loose the hours doe the rest of the term? Everything online is quite confusing about it and I ...

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I’m POOR!

So I’m thinking about going back to school or for a certification of some kind I currently hate my job and it doesn’t pay very much not sure about a 4year college but degree but what do you ladies currently do does it pay well? Any certifications that are 2 years or less that you know of that are lucrative ? Any car...

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Post-Pregnancy Books 📚

Hii! Any reccs for books post-pregnancy to help with the newborn stage? Feel like I’ve read a lot on pregnancy & birth but still feel a bit clueless once baby is here! Thank you so much! 😊

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Universal Credit

If you’re in the last months of unpaid leave can you claim universal credit just for those months?

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Pregnancy book recommendations

Can anyone recommend any pregnancy books? This is my first baby.

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Small business mommas

Since becoming a SAHM, I started up a small business in my hometown. So far I feel like it’s going okay, but are there any SAHM, who also started a business from home, that have any advice when it comes to growing your business? Or even promoting it to gain more customers/ attention?

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Child benefit pay it back?

Has anyone else had a letter about paying some back if you earn a certain amount a year? My husband does earn over the amount it states but bloody hell im so worried what we got to pay back, what’s the point in giving us a payment a month if we got to pay it back 🥲 so worried now.

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2nd C-Section No Recovery Support

Hey, mamas. Long post. I'm about 2 weeks away from my second C-Section and tubal, and I have two other kids (18m and almost 5). My husband only gets 7 days off for paternity leave, and it's unpaid. We just moved to a new state for his job because he got promoted, but his pay hasn't increased due to his bonuses not b...

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anyone else?

I just can’t bring myself to pay THAT much for it after my mom made a comment that $500 was more than her first down payment on her first car lol 😂

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Disadvantaged children 15 hour fund

So ive applied for this, my sons got it, ive got the code, what do i do now?? Im on uc, do i have to work like the working families one, theres no information im so confused x

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I have no job experience: i found a job, did the interview and…the offer was $16hr.

I have a 4 year degree and no work experience. I feel like the off sucks but..I don’t know the job market. I’d love yalls take

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Maternity grant

Hi I sound really stupid but does this text mean I will be receiving the payment in 5 days or that I’ll get a letter which will tell me whether I’m Eligible for the grant or not

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Real WFH jobs that aren’t MLM

That actually makes decent money… I’m currently a sahm but we’re drowning financially recently no matter what we do. We’ve budgeted and cut out as much as we possibly can, anymore and we’d be cutting away necessities. I need something that’s actually going to actually bring in a second income without costing a fortu...

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