Janine, thank you soooo much for posting that!!!

I feel heaps better now about our situation.
I'm not sure if we qualify for family assistance but will certainly look into it. At the mo I'm only planning on having 14 weeks totally off, then back for 3 days a week for 3 months, then back full time after that. I'm really lucky as my parents have just emigrated to NZ so Mum will be the "Nanny" in both sences - I think it would be really hard to leave a 3 month old baby with strangers at day care, but sometimes it just turns out that way