One Friday in September 2008 I took my four month old daughter to visit a nursery. I was going back to work four or five days per week the following January and had to sort out her childcare. As I left the nursery, I was shocked to discover that I simply couldn’t leave my baby anywhere for four or five days a week.

I hadn’t a clue what to do next. Like most families, we couldn’t make ends meet on one salary but I couldn’t leave my baby in a nursery either. It seemed like an impossible situation.

I’d had a permanent job for a while, but before that I’d been freelance for six years. I knew that being self employed might be the only option open to me, but as a new mum I had no idea how it might work. What type of work could I do? Was it even possible to run a business around a small child?

I needed information, and with the end of my maternity leave not far away, I needed it fast. I read internet forums, websites and books. I blogged, I Facebooked, I Twittered and I even met real, live mums face to face! Eventually I found most of the information I needed, as well as some amazingly creative, supportive and determined Mums. But it took me many months to get there.

Business Plus Baby is the website I needed back on that Friday in September.

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