I want to go back to work after delivering my child, but my mother in laws says I should stay home and take care of my child. I do agree with her that for a certain period of time I should be home with my child but when is an appropriate time to leave my child to go back to work?

I went back to work after discharge from hospital . Well for this century many women choose to go work and hardly at home to look after own child because its quite difficult to live with just one income. But if husband had really good income to support then maybe can consider not going out to work. Nowadays MIL thinking might be abit too out dated because during their times , they can survive with just one person but now this century everything is going too fast. If not i suggest you to go back to work after 4 months of maternity leave but it still depends on individual ☺