https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:18:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-165453 Tue, 22 May 2012 15:06:37 +0000 lavender 165453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH took a week off, than my mom was over the week after. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-165440 Tue, 22 May 2012 14:56:08 +0000 daniellemybelle 165440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At DH's current job, he gets 2 weeks paternity leave. If he's still there when we have a LO, he'll probably take those 2 weeks, and if it's a slow time of the year, he might also take another week of PTO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-165058 Tue, 22 May 2012 08:31:45 +0000 leelee 165058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH will be using his vacation days and taking 2 weeks off. He'd love to take more but he works on commission mostly and we would be hurting pretty bad if we only went by his base pay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-165034 Tue, 22 May 2012 07:40:48 +0000 sorrycharlie 165034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is interesting! DH's company used to offer 2 weeks and this year they eliminated that. He will have 2 weeks paid vacation he can use in addition to sick and personal days...but I'm not sure how much he should use (vacation). I'd like the option of him having some 'saved' days between September and may, when his time resets, in case I'm sick...vacations, etc.</p> <p>ILs live next door and my family is 5 minutes away, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164996 Tue, 22 May 2012 06:06:07 +0000 loveisstrange 164996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH was allowed 10 free days from the military but ended up getting 3 weeks because I spent so much time in the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164991 Tue, 22 May 2012 05:29:07 +0000 tequiero21 164991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hubby took like 3 days off or so, while i was at the hospital. but he didn't take additional days off. he's saving his days since he can get paid for it for when we move to jersey. i was with my mom anyway, so we don't regret him not taking any time off. he came to visit us regularly and was able to get some sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164975 Mon, 21 May 2012 23:50:51 +0000 Boogs 164975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! DH had almost 2 months off. I was sooo thankful to have him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164968 Mon, 21 May 2012 23:28:55 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 164968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, but DH happened to be on vacation when LO was born, so he had a week home before going back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164963 Mon, 21 May 2012 23:25:03 +0000 Mrs. Pen 164963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sadly DH could only take a week. He's only in his second year of work with this company, so he doesn't have much vacation time/PTO/Sick time accrued. We are taking a vacation to see his family in July and another week in June for a family vacation with my family, so he only have one week he could take for paternal leave. It was really hard having him for only one week, but my mom and sister came by to help me, and then the third week a good friend of mine came to stay with me to help out. It was so nice. I really missed my husband though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164959 Mon, 21 May 2012 23:21:30 +0000 Mrs. Train 164959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs.wagon. Yep three under a year. It was a bit hectic. Now with my daughter I am four under four. Life is crazy but it's great </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164826 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:51:43 +0000 mrs. wagon 164826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Oceanis723: holy moly! How did I not know this story!! So you had THREE under 1... and THREE under 2.... wow!!!! Nice that your SO's work approved the paternity leave.</p> <p>With our first, Wagon Jr. got 2 weeks paternity leave and took his accrued PTO as well, which made 5 weeks. It was SO nice. This time around he will take however many weeks his manager approves (probably 2?) and then go back to work. Later on, about a month or two later, he'll take a week off here and there to give my mom a break to go home. He has a lot of saved vacation time this time again, so he'll also take a lot of time around the holidays. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164807 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:43:08 +0000 skibobrown 164807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband took 2 weeks of PTO when the baby was born. After I'm done w/ my maternity leave in July he's going to take another 4 weeks of California state paid bonding leave to watch DD while I go back to work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164792 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:19:21 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 164792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH gets 6 weeks of fully paid bonding leave. It has been amazing and everything has gone so smoothly. I don't want him to go back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164790 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:14:34 +0000 Weagle 164790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hubs is taking about 4 weeks off and can take up to 6. I don't think he'll take the extra 2 weeks, but it's nice to know that it's there if he needs to take time off here and there without digging into vacation time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164789 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:09:55 +0000 SleepyMonkey 164789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband gets 3 weeks for paternity leave, which I think is quite generous (although I've heard law firms give 8 weeks or more). He said that some co-workers told him not to take all 3 right away because the baby sleeps a lot in the first month, and to take some later on when the baby becomes more "interesting"! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164785 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:00:10 +0000 regberadaisy 164785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He had planned on one but was offered a second so he took it! It was vacation time.<br /> He and I wished he could have taken more! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164783 Mon, 21 May 2012 18:57:11 +0000 twinmama 164783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hubby is taking off 2-2.5 months for our twins. I'm so thankful. I think it's a combination of sick and vacation hours, but he'll get paid 100% the whole time. He'll probably also take a good number of extra days throughout their first year. Luckily he has a lot of leave stored up.</p> <p>For a singleton, he probably would have taken 4-6 weeks, but since this is the only paternity leave he's ever going to take, we decided to maximize it! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164678 Mon, 21 May 2012 17:08:50 +0000 Running Elley 164678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He doesn't have paternity leave but he will be using his vacation (one week...wahhh) when LO is born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164675 Mon, 21 May 2012 17:03:34 +0000 heffalump 164675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dh took a week off then worked from home for a week. It was a good amount of time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164576 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:51:19 +0000 Lozza 164576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH took off three weeks, and it was great. He then took off another week to watch LO when I first went back to work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164559 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:43:30 +0000 Honeybee 164559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: I'm so glad you're able to take a little time now! Have fun on your maternity leave. ;)</p> <p>My husband took two weeks right away with both kids, and then the month of December off; well, hopefully he'll get all of December off this year. He might have to go in for one week at the beginning of the month, and then he'd stay off through the first week of January. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164548 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:37:55 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 164548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, Mr. Jacks took 2 months off with Jack Jack... Thank goodness because I couldn't take a leave, though I am now going to work part time for the next couple of weeks to have some bonding time with the littlest one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164547 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:36:49 +0000 Mrs. Superhero 164547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, he works weekend nights so he took off the weekend they were born (both my girls were born near the weekend, at night) and then was home during the weeks and my parents came on the weekends to help out. So both times I had someone to help me out everyday for a bit over a month. So wonderful! We just couldn't afford it, even though it's paid in Canada, it's only 55% of your normal income and we can't live off that with me at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164541 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:34:14 +0000 chopsuey 164541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He didn't with Lo. He 'll probably take time off for #2 though </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164538 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:31:19 +0000 Mrsbells 164538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish my husband had but he didnt. I ended up having an unplanned c-section and it was hard taking care of the baby in the 1st couple of weeks. For our next baby he will definitely take time off </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164536 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:29:47 +0000 purrpletulips 164536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH had planned on taking about a week off but was laid off exactly one week before my due date. He accepted a contract position when LO was 3 weeks old so I had his help for about 2 weeks. While it was nice to have him home I was glad when he was able to return to work.</p> <p>With this pregnancy, I'm hoping he'll take at least 1-2 weeks because I'll have a toddler and newborn at the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164532 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:25:14 +0000 yoursilverlining 164532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband isn’t taking any sort of technical paternity leave. He’s a professor and his semester ends on LO’s due date (lol, we couldn’t have planned this timing!). He’ll be off for the entire summer except for needing to work on his book, and attend some meetings here and there. We’ll both basically be on “leave” with LO for 12 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164526 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:20:22 +0000 LuLu Mom 164526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is hoping to take at least a week off, I'm hoping for 2. He's in charge so it should be doable, but he doesn't like to be away for that long. So we will see when it gets closer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164503 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:04:57 +0000 plantains 164503@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is only planning on taking a couple of days off as the baby is due quite close to the end of the school year. So he will have a couple of days with us and then back to work for 2 weeks or so, and then he will then be home for 10 weeks for the summer break. The perks of being married to a teacher! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-so-take-paternitymaternity-leave#post-164501 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:02:52 +0000 calsmom 164501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He took 3 weeks off and just went back today. We are both happy that some sense of normalcy is returning....for him at least lol. For me, I will be looking for a new sense of normalcy. </p>