Today is one of the worst, because I'm at the tailend of my maternity leave and my rainy day funds are dry,with no moral support from my partner, who literally have said in several occasions including today that he will not lift a finger.

I will be returning back to work next month after 4 months of maternity leave.

Taxes only to show I had an income but I also take usually a 1 year maternity leave and when travel nursing I took 2-3 months off in between contracts

I had a deal last year when the buyer was on maternity leave and couldn't get the loan, they would not let us add the husband to the contract to qualify for the loan. 

We ate out less than a dozen times; I sewed my own maternity clothes; we only left town once (to get a check to mail back to Sallie Mae).

@Nolan Dortch - I went ahead and got mine because I went part time after coming back from maternity leave.....trying to talk my husband into my EARLY engineering retirement (like in 2 years). 

As she approached her maternity leave one repsonse from you that strikes me right now was: "HI Ashley > I like Estes.

We recently launched an ecommerce maternity apparel company and are working to grow that every day. 

I am on maternity leave until August 22nd so I hope to get a good lead generation system in place prior to my return to my full time job.

If you are on top of all the docs needed like paystubs, w2s, etc, the process can be much quicker. once you have the documents needed it gets sent to the bank for approval. its much more complex than this, but these are some of the basics..i'm on maternity leave so that's holding me back at the moment bc it's unpaid. i have to wait until I get back to work and provide a months worth of pay. my counselor said possibly by April my file will be complete to send to the bank (since i go back to work in march.) .