THIS IS LONG, sorry!

So, I started a job as a medical assistant at a pediatric clinic in August of 2018. I can test to become certified through my work at exactly one year after working there, so I can test 08.13.19 and my due date is 08.22.19. I’d like to get my certificate before my baby comes if I can, obviously, sometimes things change, because I don’t plan on staying at the clinic after I have my baby. Well, I’ve been so stressed out on how I’m going to tell them I’m not planning on coming back. A few reasons I don’t want plan to are:

1. my husband makes good money, my money is just extra money because I have no reason to not work at the moment, as this is my first baby.

2. My job wants me to come back to work at 2 weeks postpartum.

3. I’m don’t have family that is able to help with the baby, and I’m not comfortable leaving my child that soon.

4. My job has absolutely no benefits where I work.

5. Anytime I need a day off for my appointments, which are a days we are never busy, the office manager tells me I can’t have the day off for “doctors appointment” without telling them why I’m having the doctors appointment first, which I find none of their business.

6. I make just enough to pay a day care for my baby, so it makes no sense for me to leave my newborn with a stranger just to pay them, when I can stay home and not have to pay anyone.

7. It means a lot to my husband and I for me to stay home with our baby for at least the first year if not longer.

I’m HORRIBLE at confrontation, and my nurse supervisor is very pushy about me coming back at 2 weeks postpartum. Asking me constantly what day I plan on leaving for maternity leave. What daycare I’m taking my baby boy too.m, etc. Mind you I’m just now 15 weeks so I get very overwhelmed. I don’t know if I should say I won’t be coming back now, so they know way ahead of time, I just don’t want to be treated poorly at work. Should I tell them two months (how long I trained before I was by myself on the floor) before my due date, so they can hire someone and train them, so they have someone comfortable on the floor by the time I leave? However, when we lost a full time MA it took them two months to hire someone, and we were really short handed, they just stated “hiring someone is a pain in the butt and they’d get to it later”. Should I give them two weeks notice because that’s respectful and my child is my top priority over a job that doesn’t value me? Again, I just HATE confrontation and have seen how they treat people who decide to leave. Thank you for any help at all!

Chinese calendar

Let's Glow!

The Top Baby Tracker App: Embrace New Beginnings with Tender Care

The Top Fertility Tracker App: Your Path to Achieving Pregnancy

The Top Pregnancy App: Nurturing Your Journey to Motherhood

The Top Period Tracker for Empowering Your Menstrual Health Journey