How much maternity leave did you take?

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12 months at 55%of my salary. I had the option to take 18 but then I would only be getting 33% of my salary. I'm so grateful to have that option. I can't imagine women only taking a few weeks. I think a minimum should be 3 months no matter what. The new born stage is so hard and moms and babies need to recover from delivery and bond.

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I got to take 2 weeks off. ML in the states sucks

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I took 5 officially, but I'm a teacher and I was lucky to give birth right before summer break. I just started back and he's 16 weeks old.

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My maternity leave is all unpaid, unfortunately we can only afford for me to take off about a month. 😞

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I was taken out of work at 27 weeks and eventually put my two weeks in when it got close to me returning back to work. My 13 month old refuses/d bottles so we had no choice. So I’m a sahm now and I love it.

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My whole pregnancy (9 months)+ a year afterwards.

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18 months

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1 yr

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1 weeks prior to delivery and 11 weeks after. When I returned they let me work from home every afternoon for 6 months. I eventually decided to be a sahm and return to school for my doctorate part time though, so I eventually gave my notice

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