Help me come up with a baby plan :-)

[Firebird]

Firebird: I'm on maternity leave right now and because my company has no paid leave, this is what I get through the state short-term disability. 1) up to 4 weeks paid prior to delivery 2)6-8 weeks after delivery depending on whether normal or c-section. Once those end, I can then do 6 weeks of Paid Family Leave. PFL is available for the first 12 months after the birth of the baby so you can take it right after the STD pay or take it later. You can also space PFL out as well and not take it all at the same time. The father also qualifies for PFL so he can take up to 6 weeks at any point between birth-12 months.

Uh... wow. I had no idea. I was basically assuming that any non-vacation time I took off would be unpaid leave. Is this standard?!

I was not able to find any place that catered to part-timers. But, for $205/week I have the flexibility of having the baby there full time, part-time or not at all and no need for back-up plans. Your findings may be different, but thought I'd share mine since I'm recently figuring this out.

I've heard that part time daycare is hard to come by (which makes sense, since they must depend on their regular clients).

My mom would love to have a kiddo to take care of, so I'm sure she would be okay with whatever we wanted to pay her but I do want to make sure whatever we pay her is fair. Plus, I think it's a good idea to get used to paying for daycare in case something should happen and she couldn't do it anymore. We'll see, though, when the time comes. I know there are great daycares out there but as I said, unless something radically changes I will find a way to pay my mom fairly to watch our kids - I can think of nobody better. We'd be very lucky to have her watching our children.

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Uh... wow. I had no idea. I was basically assuming that any non-vacation time I took off would be unpaid leave. Is this standard?!

Heck no. What state is that? I'm moving! Oh wait, I'm done having kids, so it doesn't matter. LOL