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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we could completely change the FMLA system in the U.S. what do you think is reasonable?

Personally, I think 12 weeks leave is on the short side of reasonable. My infant was sleeping longer stretches at 8 weeks and I was beginning to feel cabin-feverish.

I think we should have 16 weeks of paid leave. I think that is more than reasonable. If you don't use all 16 weeks at once, you can keep the leave for sick days.

I was blessed with a terrible sleeper. By 9 months we were at our wits end. I would have killed for more flexible hours or just 1 day off a week to catch up on sleep/errands, etc. Thus, I also think that in general there should be at least 2 weeks of sick leave on top of 2 weeks of vacation leave. Since having kids, I have ended up maxing out sick leave pretty much every year which takes away from much-needed vacation time.

In other words, I think if leave was more generous all around, it would relieve a lot of burden on new parents.[/quote]

OP, when are you going to grow up and realize that your employer is not your parents, or your husband, or anyone else who has an obligation or even a need to make your life perfect? Quit your whining and be thankful that you have a job. No one cares about your terrible sleeper. They care about the job tha you are able to do for the company. If you can't hack it, you can't hack it. You should have thought about that before having kids.[/quote]

???  OP is not complaining.  She said, "If we could completely change the FMLA system in the U.S. what do you think is reasonable?"  It's a question about what people would want.  It's a reasonable question.  Many countries offer paid maternity leave, some up to a year.  OP is curious.   I've thought about it many times myself, because I work for the federal government and therefore get no paid maternity leave (rather, I must use my annual leave and LWOP for maternity time off) (as a federal employee I don't qualify for disability like others do.)

I think four months is adequate to get the baby nearly sleeping through the night and on a reasonable schedule.  One thing that killed me the first few months back to work (I burned my leave the first 4 weeks and went on 2 months LWOP after that) was that my baby got conjunctivitis several times within the first few months, so I had to take leave I didn't have.[/quote]

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