Venting
Im a SAH mum to a 7 week 5 day old boy, been fighting between doctors and health visitors both smacking me like a ping pong ball from one to the other for about two weeks just to have his tongue tie looked at and assessed before I went private, but a bit pissed off that I don’t have my own income anymore as my partner asked if I’d stop working to focus on being safe during pregnancy then focus on raising our son so now I don’t have an income or maternity pay but not worked long enough to get statory maternity pay so rely on uc child benefit and what ever I get along the way I sold my motor bike as I knew I wouldn’t be using it for such a long time and wanted the money for a little myself some to get baby things and savings, but it ALL went on baby things I was then tryna get a few low hobbie things like colouring with the maternity grant but STILL all went to baby stuff I’ve just had to pay for private tongue tie specialist that he said would go halves on as he turned out to litrally need it clipping and nothing I’ve asked if he was still wanting to go halves on the procedure and he said yeah of course but still not sent half and the saving I had left aside for my son is now basically nothing and I still not been able to get a cheap pack of colouring pens
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Awww…if you were in the US I’d send you some markers and pens and pencils! God knows I have enough of them! I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t have some sort of creative outlet!
I’m sorry you’re going through this, have you looked into Maternity Allowance? You’re eligible for that if you worked for a certain amount fire the baby was born, I’ve linked the eligibility page here below. I didn’t know about it until I accidentally came across it at the hospital so hope it’ll be useful to you.
https://www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance/eligibility
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