Best of luck Angela!
Yeah we don't get any paid time off. FMLA protects our jobs for 3 months, i work for a place that will hold your job for longer if you want...but it's not paid. Fortunately I have 12 weeks of vacation and sick time saved up which will get me through most of June if I wait to take off until later in March (instead of early like some days i'd like to!). I'm always off in July and August paid, so I will have 5 months paid off with LO when she arrives--with perhaps a bit of work at home/part time in June if I want full pay in June, or if DH and I decide I may take some of that month unpaid just to keep staying home. Either way--I will get 5 months paid which I know is really rare in the US--but it's only paid because I've saved a bunch of Vacation and Sick time up for this reason.
This is why I keep pushing myself to stick with work as long as I can...I really dont' want to burn time before she comes...but I will take off a few days here and there for resting..
Yeah we don't get any paid time off. FMLA protects our jobs for 3 months, i work for a place that will hold your job for longer if you want...but it's not paid. Fortunately I have 12 weeks of vacation and sick time saved up which will get me through most of June if I wait to take off until later in March (instead of early like some days i'd like to!). I'm always off in July and August paid, so I will have 5 months paid off with LO when she arrives--with perhaps a bit of work at home/part time in June if I want full pay in June, or if DH and I decide I may take some of that month unpaid just to keep staying home. Either way--I will get 5 months paid which I know is really rare in the US--but it's only paid because I've saved a bunch of Vacation and Sick time up for this reason.
This is why I keep pushing myself to stick with work as long as I can...I really dont' want to burn time before she comes...but I will take off a few days here and there for resting..