Working mothers thinking of having more children are under increasing pressure to find affordable childcare. At £31 a day and rising, you can see just how much it costs to put more than one child in daycare for more than one day a week. For two children in daycare, two days a week, you are looking at £600 plus.

The government offers five 2.5 hour session free for 33 weeks of the year. While a good start, it is just not enough to help mothers with more than one child a few years apart in age to return to work.

I examine exactly what type of job I would need to survive off the free childcare place.

The Department of Health wants new mums to breastfeed but the support in post-natal wards and at home is laughable. Pregnant with my second child, I've asked what support I can get this time to help breastfeed after a disasterous time in 2003 with my first child, to be told "It depends who is on duty and how busy they are."

Despite trying to get advice - that didn't include being mauled by midwives who had no idea what they were doing when showing me breastfeeding positions and damaging me severely within 12 hours of giving birth - none was forthcoming and I ended up relying on formula. I was cold-shouldered by my health visitor from that moment on.