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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will dissent.  I was incapacitated after my vaginal births.  To doctors I had minor complication.  To my vagina, these were MAJOR things like a huge tear.  I could not walk very far.  No way I could have worked.  I was not strolling to Starbucks to gaze at the baby and drink lattes.  I was in MEDICAL recovery, the same way a dude who has a hernia operation is.  Some of them are up and about a day or 2 later, some of them take weeks to recover.  Yet, The Dude is covered with paid time off.  My vagina was given no such time.

It doesn't hurt to ask.  I'd do it.[/quote]

+1 and I love your post PP! I had from the outside view, a healthy straightforward vaginal delivery. From my view, I had a 2nd degree tear and lacerations that made it very difficult to walk the first two weeks. OP, even if all goes well will still be recovering from a medical event. Not just the birth, but also the 9 months of growing an entirely new human and then figuring out how to keep it alive those first hazy months.

No one is requiring people to donate their leave to her specifically, but I can imagine (especially been there done that women who are with it) preferring to give and hour or two as they can over donating to an office baby shower gift. [/quote]

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