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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, too bad for all those couples who held off on trying to get pregnant so they could take a paid maternity leave [/quote]

Honsetly this is a pretty small group of people. By holding off you are just trying to offset the risk of having a preemie baby. Because I'm bored I want to try to do some math to figure out how to quantify this.

I was too lazy to find more recent statistics of the likelihood of giving birth during week ___ of pregnancy, but here are some old values from 2017:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/due-date-accurate.html
11% of babies are born before 37 weeks
26% of babies are born in 37-38 weeks
57% of babies are born in 39-40 weeks
6% of babies are born in 41 weeks

Now some dates of interest:
40 weeks (the average length of a pregnancy) before the effective date of October 1, 2020 puts you at December 26, 2019. 
The Parental Leave Act became law on December 20, 2019.

So putting this all together:
If you conceived December 20 - December 26 then you have a 94% (100-6) chance of missing out on the leave
If you conceived December 27 - January 3 then you have a 37% (100-6-57) chance of missing out on the leave
If you conceived January 4 - January 18 then you have a 11% (100-6-57-26) chance of missing out on the leave

So what can we conclude? That if you heard about the legislation on December 20, 2019 and then waited one month to try to conceive, then you are pretty damn likely to receive the parental leave (with a 89% chance).

I don't feel too bad for those people that had to wait a month to try to conceive.[/quote]

Not sure why you’d assume folks would only hear about it In Dec. The bill was introduced in the summer I think. We followed it and it influenced our timing as a dual fed family. We were hopeful and knew we’d find out either way since it was in the NDAA. We ended up waiting many months to start trying. That being said, I’d be thrilled if other families get paid leave retroactively. [/quote]

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