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[quote=Anonymous]All agencies are different -- mine allowed me to stretch out my sick leave and use it throughout my maternity leave, but I think that's rare.

What you should count on is:
- Not having your use-or-lose reinstated in 2020; I've never heard of that happening and I don't even know if it's possible. I believe OPM would prohibit it.
- Having 6 weeks of sick leave for a vaginal birth and 8 for a c-section.

Assuming you deliver on December 1, you can take 6 weeks of sick leave (240 hours) and then you'll have 6 more weeks of FMLA leave that you can have paid out using your 160 hours of use-or-lose leave, 40 hours of shutdown leave, and 40 hours of annual leave.

If you're on paid leave, you will be able to take the holidays as paid days, so this isn't perfect math; you'll have at least 2 federal holidays, maybe 3, depending on the actual date of delivery. But this is generally what you should be thinking about.

Also, your agency may allow you to take off more than 12 weeks. Mine allowed us to be gone up to 6 months. But all of it was unpaid except for the sick/annual leave we had. If you want more than 12 weeks, ask and see if they'll agree.[/quote]

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