Still fiercely miserable in the throes of my last month of being pregnant, I got caught up this week in the details of my maternity leave.Let me just say: I think the US is barbaric. It's just wrong for a society to have no universal standard of maternity leave, in which a job like mine is considered good because I can take 10 weeks off at 70% pay. Teachers, after all, get nothing.
It's so fucked up.
When I was looking at the calendars with the HR lady yesterday and together trying to work out my best plan of action, I was struggling to not lay my head down on my desk and just bawl. Little tears were escaping in the corners of my right eye - I just kept my hand up on my face so she wouldn't notice (she didn't).
The finally-crafted end plan has me out from mid-April to the end of June. Returning to work July 1st, but using a combination of vacation days, leave without pay and regular working time, I'll be making 70% pay for that month and working mostly 1-2 days a week.
And this is good for the US - that I can have "that much" time... and "that much" time means I'll leave my little baby when she is 2 months old.
I don't know how I'm going to be able to do this.
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WHat!? what about the family leave policy? and "disability" policy (that includes pregnancy and birth)? Isn't that worth 12 weeks of something?
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