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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Maybe I misunderstood my husband’s friends in various fields of law and tech. They seem to have 5-6 months of paid leave (which they all take) then work from home and continue to pump and bond with their babies. The lawyers at my daughters daycare do not miss events and have flexibility. Again they are in all different fields of law (big law, midsize law, in house, government). This post is just a vent post I understand that it is on me to course correct and I will end doing so. Just stinks to train for so long and have nothing to show for it.

I just seems that other white collar jobs have become more flexible and family friendly while medicine falls behind. That’s okay but I think if I understood that beforehand I would have made different choices. [/quote]

I can assure you that the gov lawyers do not get 5-6 months of paid leave.  Fed offers 12 weeks paid leave, anything else and you need to use your own saved up leave.  I suppose if you had a bunch of leave banked you could make it to 5-6 months, but that is rare for early career professionals.  The lawyers I know who did have kids before the fed offered paid leave completely blanked out their leave for whatever maternity leave they took, then blanked it out again when the kids got sick.

What stage in your career are you?  It sounds like you had a kid in residency/fellowship.  If so, that is pure hell, no doubt.  But unless you chose to be a surgeon, attending life is much better than residency and fellowship.  And if you did choose to be a surgeon, then you have the money to pay for whatever child care assistance you need.  Not saying it is not difficult.  it is.  But you have options that many lawyers do not.

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