I would kill for 6 months off! We get six weeks because it's a small childcare center and the owner doesn't care about his employees. And since there's less then 15 staff members, we dont even get the 12 weeks most places have to give you. I would love to stay at home for at least the first year, but I dont think our budget will allow that. Once I am pregnant though I'm going to be looking for a new job- this center doesn't accept children under two, and I want my baby to go to a center I work at so I can breastfeed and check in on them like a paranoid dork, lol.