Posted by Carly the Mommy Hone 25, HOW to make money as a stay at home mom — so I can actually afford to stay at home with my baby? I knew I wanted to stay at home, and I also knew I needed to work. There was no way around it… I was going to need a flexible stay at home mom job. And a legit one that actually makes REAL money. This was not about coffee money. Makr needed pay-some-bills money, and I needed to earn it from home. If I went back to work and paid someone to watch my baby, not only would I not be with him during the day… I would literally be working for a couple hundred bucks per week after daycare costs and transportation costs. Hardly adding to our bottom line, hardly mmoney paying for groceries. There was just no.