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@littlek: ha ha! we should just move to canada
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@MrsLilybugg: Building a freezer stash is great, but I would caution against using it to supplement when you're back at work (i.e. regularly cutting out a pumping session and using a bag of frozen milk). Your baby will be drinking more milk than your body is making and that will negatively affect your supply (especially when the freezer stash runs out). It's better to try to pump enough times to get all the milk you need & use freezer milk for emergencies (spilled milk, back-up at daycare, in case you have to skip a pumping session every so often, etc).
Good luck with your meeting! It's great that you have employers that will even entertain the idea of more than 12 weeks. My school district gives a year of unpaid leave. We could afford 3.5 months of unpaid leave, so that's what I took. It worked out well because daycare is something LO is very comfortable with (at 7 months, no anxiety yet at being dropped off). I think a little longer would have been nice, just because the 4 month sleep regression is NO JOKE.
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@mewtill: thanks!
OK I think I"ll take out the freezer stash bit based on your and @looch's feedbackI'm nervous and hoping they'll be receptive. I"m thinking they'll be receptive to more than 3 months, but more likely it'll be 4-5 months that they'll OK.
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6 months would be ideal! I went back at 4 months PP after LO and I'm taking 5 months this time.
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I just wanted to post an UPDATE!!!
I went into the meeting two weeks ago and basically told them that while 4 months is good, and 6 months would be ideal, I'd like a happy medium of 5 months. I also told them that I'd like to return part time on a three-day week. I also wondered if I'd be eligible for health insurance.
They approved my 5 months leave (which will be some weeks full pay, some partial pay, and the remaining unpaid); and approved my 3-day week until baby is 1 year old (longer than that and they won't guarantee my position.) And I'll still be eligible for our health insurance! Huuuuuuuge weight off my shoulders! I'm so surprised and happy that they worked with what I asked for! Now we just have to decide whose insurance makes more sense as a family's: mine or DH's.
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@MrsLilybugg: Oh that's so awesome!!!!! Thanks for the update.
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@MrsLilybugg: Congrats! That is so great!!!
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