No matter how soon women decide to go back to work after having a baby – this could be after two weeks or an extended maternity leave of over 52 weeks – mothers may feel they are faced with a difficult dilemma should they want to continue breastfeeding.

For some women, continuing to breastfeed once back at work can be a good way of coping with being separated from the baby for the first time. Women shouldn’t worry about continuing to breastfeed when returning to work as there are certain rights that are laid down by law.

Options for breastfeeding at work

There are several options in which mothers can breastfeed when back at work. Depending on where the baby is being cared for, women may be able to visit the baby at their childcare during the working day.

Currently, only 2% of people working in childcare are men. Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, made a keynote speech in June 2010, in which he highlighted this issue.

The Channel 4 series hopes to empower a nation of men to spend more time with their own kids and even inspire some to consider the childcare profession.

The idea of the show is to select four men who live in or close to LONDON to work in a rea-life nursery for three weeks, under the careful supervision of the nursery staff. The men will be carefully selected and undergo extensive checks.

The new rates of benefits for the finacial year 2010/2011 have been announced - download the report now to see what it means for you.

The internet is all abuzz with Facebook and these days everyone is making a beeline for creating their own fan pages to let the world know about their business.

If you aren’t using Facebook to showcase your brand, or to increase your website’s traffic or sales then you really are missing out…and it’s FREE!

This ebook will show you how to get started, and if you’ve already made a start, but haven’t seen any success for your effort, you’ll learn some great tips on making money on Facebook.

If you’re a business mum with minimal or zero marketing and promotion budget, you can start promoting your business on Facebook today for FREE, and start reaping the benefits today.

Last week BlackBerry launched Blackberry Business Group with Laura Tenison, founder and managing director at…

Tax credits claimants are being reminded that they must let HMRC know within one month of their childcare costs falling or ending. Deliberately failing to let HMRC know when renewing a tax credits claim that your circumstances have changed could be seen as fraud and result in prosecution.

Now you have a business idea, how do you find a good web designer, who won’t rip you off, or leave you with a website that breaks down all the time, or one that you can’t update without going back to him all the time, and paying out even more money?

Job interviews are usually your one-time opportunity to show an employer why they should give you a job over other applicants. So, you should want to make the best impression possible and show them that you can not only do the job, but that you can fit into the current team.

Of course, most of us do not fail at job  interviews by choice—it is simply the employer’s choice to take on someone else. However, there are things that you can do at job interviews that can jeopardise your chances – with or without you even knowing it:

Being late to the job interview

Although there may be some circumstances (like snow, major road accidents etc) that are beyond your control, for the most part if you plan your time properly, there should be no excuse for arriving late for your job interview.

Things such as traffic delay or being unable to find the employer’s place of business are acceptable. If you have allow enough time and plan to get there early, you will not be late.

A pioneering new initiative at Great Ormond Street hospital is using MRI scans to assess…

With just 21 working days left until Christmas, British offices could be facing a mass exodus as exhausted staff line up to take their remaining 2010 holiday allocation. A poll announced today from Monster.co.uk has shown that many workers could in fact be on holiday for over half the remaining time before Christmas – with an unbelievable 1 in 4 workers saying they have ten or more days of holiday left to take.

The poll, which surveyed over 3,200 UK workers, further demonstrated that many felt dissatisfied with their holiday process. 55 per cent of respondents felt that it was difficult to spend time with their friends and family because of work and felt that they were dissatisfied with the amount of holiday they’d been able to take this year.

Mum-of-two Joelle Seksum, 37, tells www.motherswhowork.co.uk how she set up her business Josoblu, www.Josoblu.co.uk, when she couldn’t find a suitable baby change bag when her first child was born.

What work did you do before you set up your company?

I renovated a few properties before having my first child, Lucie, and have been a full-time mother since.

How did you fund the business?

We raised the money for the business through a combination of personal loans, savings and great financial support from my family.

What was the motivating factor for starting your own business?

When Lucie was born I wanted to buy a pretty, sturdy and practical change bag I could take out with us, but the models on offer were quite dull. I thought to myself, ‘Yes these products need to be functional but there’s no reason at all why they can’t also be fun, bright and fashionable too’ and so decided to take the plunge and design my own range.

Having two young children meant that a flexible working arrangement was key and by setting up from home I could run my own business, whilst at the same time being able to spend lots of time with my children.

Maternity Leave can be complicated enough, but how does this apply and what happens if you aren’t prepared for becoming a parent? Our legal expert Sarah Calderwood tells us what to expect.

How to juggle the demands of bringing up a family and running a business, with a little help from Laura Tenison (founder of successful UK business, JoJo Maman Bébé) and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

If you work every evening, at weekends and holidays “ALL THE TIME” (as your children or spouse may put it) then it could be a tell-tale sign that you're a workaholic

Mark November 30th in your diaries! Laura Tenison of JoJo Maman Bébé will be involved in the first ever ‘BlackBerry Business Group’ - a virtual gathering for ambitious people to learn and interact via the BlackBerry Messenger platform. There are 30 spaces available!

Each year around 150,000 women — a quarter of new mothers — don’t get the…

The opportunity to work flexibly will vary according to the sector and job type, for example those in field sales jobs or sales director jobs will have different elements of their roles which may determine whether they can feasibly work flexible hours or not.