Income as a sahm

What am I supposed to do to bring more income into the house as a sahm who’s due in July?! I’m seriously stressing, everything is getting so expensive and we cannot afford to survive anymore. Please give any ideas or advice!🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Were you working recently? Does your state offer paid maternity leave?

If not, consider doing a garage sale, offering a digital service on platforms like Fiverr, or seeing if family can help support since you’re so close to giving birth… praying for you! If you’re a member of a church, ask your pastor if they can help while you’re recovering…

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Depending on your work background and experience you can find some work from home jobs. If you’ve ever done billing or marketing there’s an endless amount of those jobs remote most require some experience if you don’t already have a connection with the company.

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Sexual or not?

Growing up when my mum would
Go out with her mates she would say she was going out to play… I now say to my friends ‘do you wanna come out to play’… i said It to
My 2 close guy mates and they’ve told me that people say that in a sexual manor ?! That’s not how I mean it and no one has ever said anything to me but them 🫪

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Child support (please no judging)

I’m currently pregnant with my first baby off of a “one night stand” with someone I had met years ago yet only recently did we reconnect and sleep together for the first time.

After that ONE night, we continued to speak and see eachother at the gym and such but a few weeks later I found out I was pregnant.

After telling him, he immediately asked me to get rid of it and said he didn’t want to be involved.

Personally (no shame to others at all), I don’t agree with abortions and could never put myself through one. so I said I’m keeping it.

I did make it very clear to him that my decision wasn’t changing and I in no way am expecting him to step up and be a father. I even said he doesn’t need to be involved AT ALL. I am not one to trap someone in a situation they don’t want to be in, and I’m not one to blame him for this either or hold him accountable.

This is why I’m struggling, I have multiple people telling me I should claim child support off of him regardless. Personally, I don’t want to as he did ask me to get rid of it and I was the one who said no. yes, it’s both of us that created this situation.. but I’m the reason the situation still exists. which is why I don’t think it’s fair for me to make him pay.

We haven’t spoken ONCE since the week I found out (3-4 months ago)

What would you do???

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SAHM and an introvert

I've never been one to have loads of friends, but I was always quite close to work colleagues so I guess socialising at work filled the gap quite nicely as I enjoyed time to myself on weekends, and meeting up with friends here and there.

But, now I'm a SAHM I guess there's more time to fill (weekdays as well as weekends) and to be honest it's starting to get quite depressing. (For context my son is 15 months and I'm 13 weeks pregnant so won't be returning to work any time soon).

We go to one class a week, and I'd like to do more but I don't have much money. Anyone else in this situation or can anyone offer some words of advice?💗

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Gifts

I’m looking for a gift for my son’s grandparents for Father’s Day. I’ve seen the self casting kits online but imagine I’ll just make a mess of it and I don’t want them to be of poor quality but wanted to give some kind of cute keepsake gift of this stage of my baby’s life. Has anyone bought anything that they thought was a great gift?

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Gay jokes

Do you jokingly say “that’s gay” about non-homosexual things?

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Looking for more mom friends

Good morning. I’m looking for more mom friends to connect with. My daughter is about to be 4 months old tomorrow. I’m super excited. She’s such a happy little girl.

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