Congratulations! I love this explanation, especially the nuance about employer sponsored healthcare. I did a lot of research on other wealthy nations’ paid family leave policies, and the U.S. is criminally behind in this area. I cringe when I hear calls for 12 weeks because it’s way too little way too late, and it will only kick this broken can down the road further. My best assessment is that 26 weeks paid leave should be the minimum. A work around re: health insurance could be an option for parents to pay *some* extra percentage of their premium to cover the gap between 12 and 26 weeks. If they were getting paid during that time, I’m sure many parents would opt to do this. I had my baby in California and thank god we have state sponsored paid leave, otherwise my hospital job provided $0 and made me use 100% of my PTO. 🥴
It's just so cruelly ironic that hospitals as employers have some of the worst labor policy around health, sickness, and leave. Thanks for sharing! And I think the US will get to six months, but getting to 12 first makes everything more ambitious possible.
It shouldn’t require a PhD to do accrual accounting while you are waiting on paid family leave to be incorporated into SSI… BTW, congrats on the new little one!!
CLAPPING.
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Congratulations!
Thank you!
Congratulations!!!!
Thank you!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Happy Baby ! You're a brave woman, and your family is very lucky. Enjoy your newborn and get some sleep whenever you can.
I read that as "get some sleep wherever you can" and wanted to report, indeed, I did fall asleep at a bank last week waiting to be seen.
I hope you were seated in a big overstuffed old style bank chair so that the fleeting moments of sleep stole were renewing
Congratulations and mazel tov, Kathryn!!!! So happy for you!!!
Thank you so much.
Congratulations! And your back solving problems and explaining things just like that! If only they would listen…
An outlet in many senses of the word!
Love this straightforward rundown - may we get there sooner than later 🙏
Keep fighting, we are on our way!
Congratulations 👏🎉.
Thank you!
Big shout out from OE Island 🏝️! We miss you bigly and can’t wait for the rescue boat to come next year with new eps. 🛟
Hope you saw the surprise bonus episode that dropped this morning.
Congratulations! I love this explanation, especially the nuance about employer sponsored healthcare. I did a lot of research on other wealthy nations’ paid family leave policies, and the U.S. is criminally behind in this area. I cringe when I hear calls for 12 weeks because it’s way too little way too late, and it will only kick this broken can down the road further. My best assessment is that 26 weeks paid leave should be the minimum. A work around re: health insurance could be an option for parents to pay *some* extra percentage of their premium to cover the gap between 12 and 26 weeks. If they were getting paid during that time, I’m sure many parents would opt to do this. I had my baby in California and thank god we have state sponsored paid leave, otherwise my hospital job provided $0 and made me use 100% of my PTO. 🥴
It's just so cruelly ironic that hospitals as employers have some of the worst labor policy around health, sickness, and leave. Thanks for sharing! And I think the US will get to six months, but getting to 12 first makes everything more ambitious possible.
Congrats! And just the fact that this already has been sorted in most other countries proves it can be done.
And they still have economies.
Mazel Tov! Hope all are happy and healthy. Here’s to at least one nights good sleep in the coming months.
A night's sleep, a night's sleep, my kingdom for a night's sleep!
So happy to hear that baby #3, who I met indirectly at IRP this summer, has joined us on the outside! Blessings to you and your family!
The IRP baby boom is real!!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
It shouldn’t require a PhD to do accrual accounting while you are waiting on paid family leave to be incorporated into SSI… BTW, congrats on the new little one!!
Thank you!