A year? I took off about six weeks for each of my first two. After the third, I took off more time but then my husband and I started our business from home.
Our first first child was born at 12:10 am and my husband had to be on the job site at 4:00 am.
Itâs different when you have family business with its flexibility or working from home which is the post Covid trend. In person corporate jobs are not that forgiving and accommodating to breastfeeding moms
Since this thread is where things need to change, I guess this^ means => paid maternity&paternity leave + welcoming to breast feeding mothers.
Yes, and I would also say better awareness that formula feeding is also a perfectly fine choice, and that women should not be pressured to breast feed.
There are many many studies that show a correlation between breastfeeding and better outcomes, but essentially all of them are poorly designed observational studies flawed by confounding.
In contrast, the 2 studies that are the best designed (the Belarus PROBIT study and the Discordant Sib studies) do not show any enduring benefit to breastfeeding when compared with commercial formula made with clean water. Mothers deserve to know this information.
I donât think thatâs a fair statement. Working from home or working for a family business and indicating that you donât have to work as hard or with not have restrictions or have more flexibility is a big assumption.
Plenty of corporate people also work from home these days. Working from home is not a ticket for more time to parent.
Absolutely agree with you. But my statement was about flexibility not how hard it is running business from home. My son runs very successful businesses from home and works every day with no days off BUT he can set his own hours and work around his new baby feeding and playing in the park times. My DD works from home for a corporate job. She needs to follow corporate schedule and be available during business hours
His is one example. I donât think that applies to many work from home people who are also raising young children. Meaning that flexibility is not there for many to extend the day, or days if the week to get a job done.
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I think our society will be better off if we do the following 2 things:
Stop making blanket statements about what men want and/or need and what women want and/or need, especially when these conclusions are based on pseudoscience.
Start listening and taking it seriously when individual men and women say what they want and/or need.
I also think our society would be better off if we reserved judgement about what men and women are genetically/naturally/evolutionarily good at.
Both my mother and MIL attended high schools where girls could not take shop or drafting. It was a widely accepted fact that women were, by nature, not good at building things and in any case were not interested in building things. So they were prohibited from taking the classes. At my motherâs high school, girls were discouraged from taking math past Algebra 1. They were not expressly forbidden, but they were discouraged. At my MILâs high school they were actually forbidden. This was the 1960s.
When I attended high school it was widely accepted that girls, by nature, were not good at sports and in any case were not interested in sports. Oh was Title IX regarded as top-down government lunacy! You canât force girls to be interested in sports when their very psyches have been fashioned for nurture not competition! We girls made do with leftover gym times late at night or at the crack of dawn, facilities in the basement, old uniforms. My best friend scored [ETA: 1300] pts over her high school BB careerâin front of nearly empty stands, with coaches that got hired last minute so she never had one for more than a season. While the school rode the line of compliance with Title IX and the local paper featured Op-Eds that complained how girlsâ sports were siphoning resources from the real athletes (the boys, duh.) This was the 1980s.
These things were not so long ago. So Iâm not sure that we really know yet what the true âgeneticâ or âevolutionaryâ abilities or interests of women are.
If there is a weekly or monthly meeting where different people take the minutes and it always happens to be a woman that is taking minutes then there is a problem.
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