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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am going to disagree with everyone here (except the poster who noted our maternal leave policies in this country are disgraceful) and say yes, of course it's fine to ask for leave. I have donated leave to people in all kinds of situations and have been glad to do it. Childbirth is a better reason than plenty of others. The posters screaming about it being "gauche" and unnecessary are sadly brainwashed and frankly screwed up, and the sad thing is most of them are probably women. You can and should ask for leave without feeling any guilt for this. Pregnancy and childbirth are REALLY hard on the body.[/quote]

When I was a catholic school teacher, two of my most supposedly feminist coworkers balked when we instituted an option to donate leave and a new teacher requested it for the maternity period (she only went on all of 6 weeks leave altogether, and the most that she was allowed to receive as a donation was 10 days). Not that I thought they needed to donate leave, but they took a lot of offense at it. So weird. [/quote]

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