What to do when I have to close my daycare early for maternity leave??

[AmandaKDT]

I have a couple of my daycare parents that are sticking with me until the bitter end! haha. It's certainly not a full daycare, but at least 3 days a week I'll have a couple kids, so better than no income! I have to admit...it makes me really frustrated that simply by choosing to be self employed and to run my own daycare, I feel like I am being punished when it comes to a maternity leave. A maternity leave that every other employed woman has the right to, and yet we don't, unless we PAY into EI ourselves? And even then.....they take the 55% of our pay from our income AFTER all of our expenses? God I have so many expenses. It's just ridiculous. Ok vent over. My pregnancy hormones plus this insanity of my daycare having to close down early is just so beyond frustrating to me. I have been in tears for days about it. I put so much into this job and feel like it screwed me over.

All those other employed women ARE paying for EI themselves, it is just that their employer is automatically taking that money off their paycheck. But yes, I feel your stress. Being unable to be fully employed until the end when you don't qualify for sick leave EI makes things very hard financially.