Maternity Leave
01/10/07 19:38 Filed in: Märia's
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So I know I've griped about maternity leave before,
but I'm gonna do it again. Yeah, maternal health
sucks in this country and maternity leave sucks as
well. Do you know Ethiopia has a better maternity
leave plan than we do? ETHIOPIA?!?! They get 90 days
paid leave, we only get 12 weeks unpaid. And you know
what, I don't even get that cause I work in a
military hospital and all military people get 6 weeks
off. So they're like you want 6 weeks right, and I'm
like NO, anyways it ends up being 10 1/2 weeks. But
depending on when Felicity decides to show up it
could be when she's 6 weeks old. I mean at 6 weeks
most infants still wake up 4 times a night. Imagine
waking up 4 times a night for 30 minutes each and
then going to work a 12 hour shift (and that's on
your feet all day, where a lot of times your
customers, ie parents and patients, expect you to
wait on them hand and foot). Yeah, that's what I was
thinking. Everyone needs to pray for me that Felicity
is born between November 2-12, I'd really like
November 5th if anyone wants an exact date to pray
for (she'd be 10 weeks old when I went back to work
then). Oh and no c-section, because I have no desire
to recover from major abdominal surgery, care for a
newborn and go back to work seriously sleep deprived.
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