Looking for some advice. I always imagined my husband and I would both be off for 12 weeks. He works in a hospital, and I know it is often harder for hospital staff to get approved for long periods of time. Before we conceived he prepared me for a reality of 8-10 weeks. Didn’t like it, but accepted it. Once we got pregnant, he started saying only 6 weeks. And now (halfway through) he is starting to say he may only do 4 weeks. Just today he told me one of his coworkers asked if he was going to take two weeks off. Two weeks!? Are you kidding me!?!

It’s so upsetting to me I can’t really talk to him about it. The idea of being home healing and learning to care for a newborn alone makes me so sad, and frankly scared. Appreciate any suggestions folks have on how to handle this or how to help him understand the support I’m going to need. I would like to at least get him to agree to the six weeks.