First congrats .....I'm sort of confused as you"ll already be at home running a daycare so why would you need mat leave? Take a couple of weeks off (your holidays) at the due date and then back to work. If you have a family member (mom or mom in law or someone else) that can come to help out for a few weeks or hubby can take parental if he is not self employed to help out .... Or if you really want mat leave again then go back to your job for the next 8 months and you'll have it. But then you will have to put your 1 yr old in daycare . I would be happy to give up the mat leave and I did for my final child cause I never went back to work after my fourth and therefore when my fifth was born I was a stay at home mom. I never even missed it....