I'll choose my baby over my job ANY day

Originally, my job told me after my first 6 weeks of maternity leave, I could apply for additional "bonding time" for up to 6 weeks. They also told me my time off would be paid.

Well turns out that's not true. I didn't get a dime because I didn't have 1200 hours put in from the beginning of the year to when I took my leave at the end of April (not 1200 hours in the last 12 months, literally from the start of 2010 in January - so mother's who have babies early in the year are SCREWED).

Then when I called to ask for a few more weeks of bonding time so I could teach her to bottle feed and see my family in Missouri, they tell me I don't qualify for that because of the same stupid hours deal!!!!!

I had given Reagan a bottle a few times before and she didn't seem to mind, and so for the last few days I started working with her to make sure she was comfortable with me being actually gone. I left for an interview yesterday and was gone a total of about 3 hours, and I returned home to her being absolutely hysterical and refusing to eat out of a bottle... Haven't had much luck since then.

I called my job to tell them my dilema, and guess what? Turns out if I don't return to work this weekend I'm forfeiting my job. Awesome. So I'm being forced to choose between doing what's best for my baby and caring for her, or keeping my job.

Guess I'm not working there anymore. I love my baby much more than my job.