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I haven't taken mine yet but it should end up being the same as my first (same company).

Formally, it is 12 weeks with 6 weeks at 60% salary through STD (which I paid for over the years though, so not actually making much there), as many PTO days added in as I can swing before the end of the year, and the rest unpaid. Last time, I actually needed to make it 13 or 14 weeks because daycare doesn't accept infants before 3 months old, which is a little longer than 12 weeks, so I worked from home a little bit towards the end. I assume I will probably do something similar this time.

Last time I took 10 weeks. I could have taken more but I'd have used up all my vacation time. Also it worked were I came back right after the Mardi Gras holiday and just in time for a big meeting to attend.

This time once again I'm looking more at when I'll go back than the number of weeks. My plan is to be back after New Years and if I had gone out last week on my due date it would have been 11.5 weeks. But each day it's looking to be less and will likely be 10 weeks again.

Taking 12 weeks like I did with LO. Company changed how they do vacation, so since I am due Jan, I won't have anything accrued. So 6 weeks paid and 6 unpaid. But I will then have vacation time for Mar-Dec, once I am back and accruing time. Which is better then having no vacation time Jun-Dec like with LO.

I took 4.5 months with #1. Took 12 weeks with #2.

Took about 8 with my first. Planning on taking 12 with my next (due in March). Only a small portion is paid, but I'm setting money aside now to help get us by when I'm off.

I just started my leave this week and I'm taking 10.5 months and DH is taking 6 weeks at the end. With our first I was off for 7 months and he took 3 months.

I took 12 weeks and 12 Fridays after that with both kids. I was only paid for 8 weeks both of those times though.

My husband took 12 weeks after mine ended with both kids. All of his was unpaid.

It was 6 weeks with my first, but the policy has changed and now it is 12 weeks with my second due in Jan.

2nd baby-- 5 weeks
3rd baby-- By this point I was self employed, so I worked from home and slowly got back into it at week 8, but wasn't at my full 25 hours until week 12.

I took 8 weeks with my first, paid accrued leave and advance leave. It left me in the whole for a few months which sucked. I was still relatively new to the federal government, and only accruing 4hrs a pay period. Another reason for me delaying full blown ttc is that I'm still building my leave back up. Now I'm getting 6hrs a pay period, so as long as I deliver after October of next year I'll have my 8 weeks. I'd like to be able to take 8 weeks again. After 8 weeks I was ready to go back to work. I couldn't imagine being away from my field for 6months-1 year but that's just me. My job is flexible in that I can telework a lot, leave early without penalty if I need to etc..

DS #1: 12 weeks
DS #2: 16 weeks

First baby, my last 4 weeks were paid by my PTO. Second baby, it was fully covered by my company.

Officially, my "suspension of responsibilities" was 8 weeks for lo1 and will be 12 weeks for this baby. one of the main perks for being a grad school parent is flexibility around this, and for both lo1 and this pregnancy, I'm very lucky to have summer right after my leave officially ends so that I'm able to take extra leave without it interfering with teaching responsibilities. The daycare center we use only takes babies 6 months or older and only with a September start date--so with lo1, I was off 6 months (April-October), and with this baby I'll be off 7 most likely (Feb-Sept, assuming we get lo2 into the same daycare).

I took 8 weeks for my first and 10 weeks for my second. I had the time at work to take the full 12 weeks but I would not be paid for all of that. I was happy with taking 10 weeks. 2 of those 10 weeks were not paid.