Thank you so much for your kind words Peacefulbird! I don't mind the long message at all. I'm grateful to get some insight. Your positivity is what I needed to hear. I have worked hard to build my business and am at a point where I am at capacity for awhile (although I may lose one family due to my baby) and haven't needed to advertise for awhile.

My sick days never even came to mind as I have never taken one but that is a good idea. I would love to take 3 weeks. My policy is 15 personal days (7 paid and 8 unpaid) and unlimited unpaid sick days. I am working my way up to fully paid personal days by 2020. That's a work in progress though. One of my issues is that I already planned my personal days for the year so that the parents can plan their vacation days ahead of time. This was before I found out I was pregnant. I will have to change that now. I do want to be reasonable. Do you think I can take 10 personal days and 5 sick days pre-planned for post birth? That would make it 3 weeks in total and I would still have 5 personal days to use up during the year. I'm not sure how the parents will feel about this. I think taking 5 personal days and 10 sick days (leaving 10 personal days to use throughout the year) might be pushing it plus leaving me with less income.

I like all of your suggestions. I can definitely get my mom and husband to do some days at the park. Also my daycare is in the basement. The kids are upstairs in the kitchen for meals. But other than meal times, they can be downstairs or in the back yard and I can be in our living room or bedroom during that time to have some alone time with baby.

I also like the meal prep idea during the weekend. I will look into food to prevent a collicky baby. And no my husband doesn't mind getting alone time with baby either. I'm sure I will need a break at times myself. You are such a great support for those parents. I can't imagine having to go back to work after 6 days of giving birth but I understand everyone has to do with they have to do.

I had a c-section with my son and had no problems producing milk. I was actually over producing. I know every birth and post pregnancy healing is different so we'll see what happens this time around and will plan for the alternative. My husband says to try not to plan every single detail and I think the unknown really stresses me out as I am such a planner and he is more go with the flow. I am lucky enough to have great family support. I'm sure everything will work out fine as well. Thank you so much again for your positive words.