Hi all, I need a reality check here - will welcome all feedback here please. I have been in full-time employment for 9 years now. Me and partner have 1 child, no mortgage, partner unemployed with unlikely prospects of ever returning to work due to disability. We have recently been contemplating having another child - that would mean 6 months paid maternity leave for me. Then - this is exactly the question: if I decided not to go back to work for 2 or 3 years, would I be entitled to get any social benefits? Technically it would be myself walking from the job, and for those 2 or 3 years I would be taking care of a baby until they are just that bit older (unfortunately, due to my partner's mobility issues he would not be able to contribute much, if at all, to the taking care of a baby/child). Technically, I also would be not looking actively for employment during that time, so that would prevent me from going onto the Live Register and getting an unemployment benefit to which I would probably be entitled otherwise. I have a bit of savings: would that be the only way to support ourselves throughout a couple of years....? with no guarantee that I would ever be able to return to work considering that all household duties and taking care of members of family would be basically on me, considering my partner's disability...? Any similar stories... any thoughts...