26 Americans Describe Their Parental Leave Experience, And They're Almost All Heartbreaking

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26 Americans Describe Their Parental Leave Experience, And They're Almost All Heartbreaking
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“My son was born on a Wednesday and I was back at work on Monday. God bless America, right?”

) so they didn’t have to keep my position open. They didn’t, which meant I was applying and interviewing for jobs while seven-to-eight months pregnant. I even went to an interview a few days after leaving the hospital ."

"Luckily, because of the pandemic I told him I needed to work from home to watch my baby. The U.S really needs to catch up.""We adopted, which was very expensive, so our financial situation was already pretty bad. I took the standard 12 week leave, but because it was near the beginning of the year I didn't have a lot of PTO saved up , and I only qualified for six weeks of maternity pay, which is 50% of your salary.

"My girl wanted nothing to do with the bottle, so my husband would drive to my work during lunch so that I could breastfeed. We lived like this for three months and it was exhausting. I'm grateful that my job was understanding and let me have the time and privacy to pump or breastfeed...but I honestly felt like I got nothing done.""California teacher here. People assume that teachers get paid maternity leave but we do NOT. We get zero days of paid leave.

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