New Mommy Diary

A Tribute to the New Mom

While this is a day late, it is a nice infograph on the tribute to all the mothers in live, especially you, the new mommy. Happy Mother’s Day! Source: http://FrugalDad.com

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I Love Being a Working Mom!

While other moms complain about missing their baby, I thought something is wrong because I do not have the urge to cry when I first returned to work from maternity leave. Instead, I feel a sense of relief to be at work every Monday morning. I love being a working mom. Work is my mini [...]

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Discussion on Baby Bargains

Angie from Baby Cheapskate is going to host a discussion on her book on how to find bargains for baby gear. If you are shopping for baby stuff, you are not going to want to miss this. Here is the link to the original post. Thanks for reading New Mommy Diary. If you enjoy what [...]

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Ask Annie: Maternity Leave Protection Worked for Less than One Year

I started working for this company in early September 2011. I’m due in mid July and wasn’t sure if I qualified for any leave. I will have been at this company for 10 months if I wait until my baby is born. I checked and I definitely pay SDI tax. Do I still qualify for [...]

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5 Maternity Leave Questions You Must Ask

While the maternity leave laws are pretty straight forward for large companies, there is huge spectrum on how a company practices its maternity leave policy. The federal and state maternity leave laws only protect your job and your health insurance benefits (all other benefits could be frozen while you are on maternity leave). Your company [...]

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Planning Your Maternity Leave

As a new mom, I did not plan my maternity leave as well as I would have liked. First, I felt guilty for taking so much time off. Then, I assumed that I would have plenty of free time at home to check up on my projects at work. Last, I assumed I would have [...]

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Taxes on Maternity Leave Benefits

I finally finished my taxes over the weekend. Are you curious whether I had to pay taxes on my maternity leave benefits from 2011? No Tax on State Disability Insurance (SDI) Like unemployment, neither the federal government nor the state government taxes your SDI payments when you are on maternity leave. Your taxes are withheld [...]

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Ask Annie: When to Start Maternity Leave

A reader wrote in: Hi there, my question is about the leave prior to delivery, should I take advantage of the 4 weeks prior to delivery? I work as a dental hygienst and planning to work up till 39 weeks, taking the last week off. I’m a first time mom, so I am confused a [...]

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Paid Family Leave at the Workplace

Paid Family Leave (PFL), like the State Disability Program (SDI), makes up a large portion of your paid maternity leave in California. Unlike SDI, there is no guideline on how to implement PFL in the workplace because you can take Paid Family Leave ANY TIME within the first year after the birth of your baby. [...]

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Ask Annie: Paid Family Leave and Part-Time Workers

I’ve only been working part time for this company for about 8 months but I worked for another company part time before that for 9 months or so, does that count as 12 months plus or does it have to be at the same company to qualify for 55% of my pay. Paid Family Leave [...]

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Affordable Health Insurance for Pregnancy in California

While doing research on how to get affordable health care for my health and fitness blog, I found out that California has a program to provide affordable health insurance for pregnancy and up to 60 days after giving birth. Like all state programs, there is an income limit for eligibility to this pregnancy health insurance. [...]

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Wasting Time as a New Mom

I find myself frequently wasting time since becoming a new mom. I am not sitting for hours at a time browsing online or playing videos. I don’t have that kind of free time anymore. It is more of incremental drips that waste time without really accomplishing anything. My baby gets into everything, so every few [...]

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