"I Have an Incredible Paid Maternity Leave Package—I Wish I Wasn’t in a Minority”
glamour.comAshley R., 32, lives in Los Angeles with her husband, John, and her two children, Landon, age two, and Arlo, four months. She is a marketing manager for a large media company.
Her organization offers up to a year of fully paid parental leave, but she is planning to be off for eight months.Return to the main article.I am unbelievably fortunate to have access to such an incredible maternity leave package.
I just wish that I wasn’t in the minority.Being pregnant for nine months is physically just tough. You feel like shit for the first three months.
Then there’s the exhaustion in the last trimester, when you’re carrying a huge weight around with you all the time! It genuinely takes a lot of work to be functioning at your best for actual work.So I know that having eight months off to be with my baby, to recover physically and to get through those relentless sleepless nights, means that by the time I come back from maternity leave, I’ll be genuinely excited to be back with colleagues—and probably a lot more clearheaded than I was even when I was pregnant.There’s just no way that all the women who have to return to work within two to six—or even 12—weeks are ready to be back.
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