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DH had to use vacation, and he only has 10 days per year. Boo.

@littlek: Wow, that's amazing!

My husband's work offers 2 weeks paternity leave, unpaid, any time within the first year of the baby's life. He plans on taking those, as well as using up a good chunk of his vacation since we don't anticipate doing much vacationing next year!

4 weeks paid because he works in a mandatory leave state.

Together we get 1 year paid on EI, but in his job it is difficult for him to take (retail store manager). He will use his holiday time, and just go in when he has to do business things- schedule etc.

H e gets 3 months off if he wants but it's unpaid. He has vacation time to cover a month though.

Three weeks paid

That's kind of a difficult question to answer straight because in Canada you get 17 weeks maternity leave that can only be used by a woman that physically gives birth. You also get an additional 35 weeks of parental leave (if you birth or adopt a child) to split any way you see fit between parents either concurrently or consecutively, and in my husband's case, his work tops his salary up to 93% for the entire period.

So, he COULD have up to 35 weeks off if I was willing to go back to work when LO was 17 weeks old. BUT I think we're going to choose for me to take either the full year, or at least 11 months and he'll take the last month maybe?

Like @Grace:, we have a year to split (well 50 weeks) between us. I'm taking 39 and he's taking 11 at the end. He's a teacher and LO was born in August so he also had three weeks then as part of summer holidays. We are very lucky.

He gets 2 days. But he can use vacation time so thats what we'll do. He'll probably only take 1 week off though at first, and then a little more time later when his parents come stay with us.