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[quote=Anonymous]This is OP. I simply would pitch a holy fit if I was required to go with a newborn. My first DC did not take a bottle so young - I cannot fathom that a nursing mom of a newborn would not be given a deferral. I wouldn't intentionally defer to a time when I expected to be a parent of a newborn, but my fear is that if I don't get to pick the date I deferred to, that I might get automatically rescheduled to an even worse time. But, if they will allow me to defer and pick a much better date, then I would try to pick times when I am not working (I don't work a set schedule). Because the bigger hardship, which probably seemed second fiddle to my title line RE vacation, is that this will require me to take leave. I don't get paid for jury duty over 1 day. So I'll have to take leave, which I don't have that much of, and that's all I have to use to get any type of maternity leave.

I think trial lawyer is wrong about jury reform. I know there are people aiming for that. I'm sorry you would not be comfortable with an all volunteer jury, but I'm fucking uncomfortable with stressing over making a choice to eat leave and get an even SHITTIER amount of time with my newborn because there is ZERO flexibility in the system. So maybe there is an alternative. I've been upset about this all day. Sick, really. It is a real burden on some jurors and people face real financial hardships doing it and the lawyers are like hey, F.U., "it's your civic duty." I'm sorry but if I'm ever on trial, I don't want a mom with leaking breasts and her mind far away with a newborn she misses to be in charge of my fate, you know? I'd much rather have the people who can do it, do it, or tighten up the way we elect and oversee judges and have a panel of judges.

Six times in about twice as many years is more than too much. I have only tried to defer once in all of those times and they were like "no." And so although I had made a very difficult decision to scale back hours to have time with my child, they took that time away from me and forced me to be a juror. I had to use personal leave, and I had to pay for a babysitter on top of it - and it's thankful that I was able to find a babysitter. And the slip I got today says no childcare is available but there used to be childcare, (no way in hell I'd leave my kid with a place I hadn't researched though) but baby had to be potty trained and he wasn't potty trained yet at that point. So I took a financial loss and the lawyers were like oh well, I guess we want her anyway, who cares about her problems. And the frivolous crap I was sitting in on added insult to injury.

If you can't tell, I've gotten angrier and more upset in the few hours I've been stewing over this. I really do hate this about DC. It's a huge, huge burden. I get called every 2 years on the nose. It's abusive. [/quote]

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