Discover what many first - time mothers wish they had known
about maternity leave and the impact it would have on their careers.
Whether you work in retail or tech or whether you care
about maternity leave or not, there are three key ways you can negotiate better benefits:
My girlfriend was recently laid off and is having trouble getting even temporary work because she is pregnant and companies are worried
about maternity leave and such.
We've all thought about how the bar exam is a bad way, or at least an imperfect way to assess whether people are competent to practice law, but then you've also got these other trends around part - time practice,
about maternity leave, about military spouses.
You've probably heard a lot
about maternity leave, but paternity leave is where a father takes time off work at the birth or adoption of a child and is becoming more commonplace in the United States.
This time, it's a woman who wants to know
about maternity leave and tenure.
It can be really helpful to talk to other friends and family
about their maternity leave experience, especially if they work in a similar profession to you.
If you are employed and you are pregnant you will need to start thinking
about your maternity leave as early as possible.
Think
about your maternity leave If you're planning to take maternity leave, check in with your human resources department or your supervisor now.
In addition, talking to employers
about maternity leave, learning more about health insurance and spending quality time with a partner before the birth can be vital to the planning process!
This is certainly apparent in the conversations we are having with our big firm female colleagues
about maternity leaves and prospects for advancement within their firms.
Not exact matches
But I do worry
about the message her pledge to take almost no time off sends
about the value of
maternity leave, and how it undermines recent efforts by US companies to offer and normalize the idea of longer parental
leaves, for both moms and dads.
Having a
maternity leave plan made it possible for me to focus on my life without having to worry
about my business.
When Saori Ito went on
maternity leave last year and stopped getting a regular paycheck from her cosmetics company, she became worried
about her future — and wondered if this kind of anxiety is what awaits her after retirement.
When counselling companies
about maternity -
leave obligations, consultant Spinks's advice always boils down to communication, preparation and flexibility.
The 37 - year old, Mayer, who became Yahoo's CEO while 6 - months pregnant and gave birth shortly thereafter, returned to work after a two - week
maternity leave, sparking debate
about whether she could both lead the embattled internet giant and be a good mother.
On pp. 28 - 31, Jasmine Budak writes
about how companies deal with
maternity leave and why some resent it.
Think
about it as parental
leave and not just
maternity leave.
Mr. Fuerstenberg of Mercer points out that some bosses may look at a woman and a man of childbearing age and favor the male for a promotion because of concern
about the woman taking a six - month
maternity leave.
Before your meeting, learn
about labour laws and your company's policies on
maternity and parental
leave.
If a woman couldn't breastfeed because of lack of support or lack of
maternity leave or social pressure and used formula and made her peace with it and moved on, then hears
about a campaign to provide others with what she did not have, I think there is some pain (that she didn't have it) and anger (why should they get it when I didn't) that is a legitimate reaction that needs to be addressed before moving on.
But let's not just assume that if we took everything
about the US and
left it the way it is, except that we added
maternity leave, we would see such wonderfully high breastfeeding rates.
And what
about independent workers like me — where would my
maternity leave come from?
«They seem quite happy with the way the
maternity service deals with them, but they talk more generally
about feeling
left out.
Especially
about the Yahoo woman who took 2 weeks of
maternity leave.
You know, why is it we can get all fired up
about an ad campaign to the point where we shut it down and yet we still have no meaningful
maternity leave in this country?
Don't be shy
about asking your partner, family, and friends for extra help as you make the switch from
maternity leave to working mom.
If you're going back to work after
maternity leave, think
about weaning a few months before this event.
Whenever I returned from
maternity leave or began the new school year, I would explain to each of my classes
about my choice to breastfeed and that I would be pumping in my office throughout the day.
Getting that message out, she said, means battling the influence of well - financed formula companies, brief
maternity leaves that allow little time for mother and baby to get in sync, workplaces with no place or time for working mothers to pump, and an American society squeamish
about a woman's breasts providing a child's food.
Elaine helps moms return to normal life after returning from
maternity leave, and that includes teaching moms
about their rights to pump at work.
Just had my second baby and
maternity leave is
about to end.
You can read
about other moms»
maternity leave experiences if that helps you decide what might work best for you.
Way back when I was pregnant, my husband and I used to wonder
about paternity and
maternity leave.
I ran into this with my mother in law; it drove me nuts and I totally obsessed
about it when I was on
maternity leave.
When I found out I was pregnant as I was
about to start a surgical fellow, which can mean a seven day, sixty (sometimes eighty) hour work week with erratic long nights of call, I thought a lot
about what it would be like to do the work while pregnant and how to manage
maternity leave (six weeks, worked the day I delivered).
I have been fortunate to get six months
maternity leave from my job but am feeling conflicted
about whether or not I want to return to work at all.
I first started blogging
about three months in to my
maternity leave with my eldest, and my blog What Mummy Thinks gave me something else to focus on other than dirty nappies.
I agree with the previous poster
about a breast pump - priceless not only for going back to work but during
maternity leave I would pump a bottle so that my husband could do the dream feed.
This book mostly caters to stay - at - home moms or moms who don't have to worry
about returning to work after
maternity leave for a while.
As an American woman, I never even considered this because the idea of the kind of
maternity leave that you enjoy is something I could only fantasize
about so therefore this perspective never even entered my mind.
The fact that they are not involved in lobbying for paid
maternity leave (happy to be corrected on this — what is LLL doing
about this issue?)
She would not have had to worry
about breast pumps and
maternity leave or signing Jesus up on the waiting list of a day care centre.
One last thing I wish I had done was to get in touch with the lactation consultants in my hospital to find out what pumping facilities were available while I was still pregnant, rather than waiting until the first day back from
maternity leave and scrambling to figure this out while overwhelmed
about being back at work.
To ensure that I didn't stress
about my supply during my first weeks back to work I spent time on my
maternity leave building a freezer stash to lean back on if I need it when I head back to work.
Beautiful mind To this day I maintain that the best pieces of advice I received
about surviving the early days of my
maternity leave came from a colleague of mine.
Again, I explained that what I actually needed to do was get back to work because I was on unpaid
maternity leave and the electric company couldn't have cared less
about my new bundle of joy.
Many spend whatever
maternity leave they get pumping to build up stashes of frozen breast milk to
leave with caregivers and, once back at work, schedule pumping breaks
about once every three hours (calling them «breaks» is a misnomer, however, because many women continue to work while pumping).
For an amusing read that will
leave you crying tears of laughter, pick up Have Baby, Will Date by Andrea Pasion, a story
about a single mother and all the funny things we all go through as moms, from
maternity clothes to breast pumps, and more!
It's not all
about trying to get moms in trouble or get them fired because
maternity leave is an inconvenience - some bosses are happy to see you grow your family and take the time you need to recover and bond with the new baby.