My husband gets paid 85% while on paternity leave, and he has 2 options:

-take 12 weeks all at once

-take 8 weeks that can be distributed throughout the first year whenever he wants

I’ll be a SAHM too so it’s not like we’ll need him to be home “when I go back” or anything.

We were leaning towards the 8 weeks distributed because 12 weeks all at once just seems kind of excessive and unnecessary when I’ll be a SAHM too...

But maybe it would it be nice to have all that time in the beginning for us all to adjust/bond together? Or would it be better for him to just take a month when baby is born, and then take another couple weeks here and there a few months later?