Has anyone been pregnant as a freelancer? How did you plan ahead financially? Could you get gigs when you were far along with the pregnancy?

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I was! It was hugely helpful during the first 3 months bc I was so sick I could barely work. Once I was feeling better I had no problem getting gigs. No one cared that I was pregnant. I even got two job offers (that came out of my freelance contracts) in my final trimester. I ended up taking a 4 month maternity leave and returning to freelance at the last agency I was at before giving birth. If you do a good job it 100% will not matter that you’re pregnant. As for saving, I cut back on all the non-essentials in order to afford the longer maternity leave and it was so worth it. I took on extra work (even though it was exhausting), bought a limited number of maternity clothes at old navy and h+m, cooked more at home, didn’t go on a babymoon and had a generous family that gave us tons of handle downs so we didn’t have to buy too many baby things. You can do it!!

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I freelanced my entire pregnancy. First place a few weeks was sick all the time in bathroom. Second place was a few weeks after morning sickness period over. Last gig was 5 months and I told them maybe 2 month in / it was fine. I tried to save what I could as I had no mat leave. You can do it!

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Thank you, this is so reassuring!

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Yes! I had a gig between 12-40w and it went pretty great. $$ is he hard part tho bc obviously there are no benefits. I took about 6m off without income, which was really hard (but I planned a few years in advance for it). Taking on my next gig was hard in ways I didn’t expect bc I had no built in new mom support and I found myself pumping in a lot of weird places etc but made it work. Just took my first full time job post baby 1 year out and pretty stoked about how it all worked out.

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Awesome to hear. I have about 7 months of savings right now (prob could stretch further by cutting back expenses) but hard to know how much I’d need to use during pregnancy vs after. Plus, I’d rather not use up my entire savings. Ideally I think I’d like to be home 5-6 months with the baby.

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