How do people afford more than one child?
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I have 2 kids and to be honest, I don't know how we do. I only work 2 days a week (when I go back from maternity in January), my husband isn't on a huge salary, we don't have lots of savings. We had to cut my little boy's nursery days because we couldn't afford it. I am lucky I have family but I work less so that I can look after the kids and we don't have to pay for childcare x
We are in the same boat! Nursery fees are almost 1.5K per month and we could never afford for one of us to give up our jobs to stay home, or even reduce hours. We were taking tonight about having another in the next couple of years but I just don’t think we could do it. Combined we are bringing in over 100K per year which I know is a lot but it doesn’t go very far after mortgage, cars, nursery fees etc etc are paid so I honestly don’t know how people can do it. I suppose the thing is that you would probably just make it work. Next year you will get your funded hours but I suppose you need to consider the costs when your first starts school like breakfast club, after school, childminder & the next lot of nursery fees on top of that. It would maybe mean cutting back on your current standard of living for a short period of time. We’ve considered that but need a bigger house so there’s no way we can afford another unfortunately 😭 x
We probably won't be planning for another until our 1st is 4/5 and in full time school.. that with the 30 free hours the new bubba would get, it might make it just about affordable.. Then you have to worry about school holidays.. there's approximately 13 weeks school holiday per year and most employers give a maximum of 6 weeks annual leave to each person.. So in theory there's not enough annual leave between two people to cover all the holidays, let alone time off together/family holiday! Id love to give LO a sibling but part time isn't really an option.. I have also considered getting a night job once LO is in full time school, just really hard to see how we would juggle everything and find balance 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Asking myself the same question. I just don’t think we would be able to afford it ever at this rate!!!