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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it literally says it can't be used to care for a healthy child, which is what you'd be doing. Correct?[/quote]

I think it's poor form, but no. She can only use it during the first 6 weeks following birth. That's the part when you're not healthy. The 6-8 weeks of sick leave you can use is for your recover, not the baby's.[/quote]

I'm an adoptive parent, so I have zero experience giving birth. But I've always wondered about the 6 - 8 week thing. 8 weeks is a really long time. I don't think that people get to take 6-8 weeks paid sick leave after other pretty major surgeries. Is giving birth really that much harder to recover from than those other things? [/quote]
You’re recovering from 9 months of growing a fetus and a brand new organ that does the work of another human's major bodily processes; churning out a massive volume of extra blood, sharing your body’s immune defenses, energy stores, expanding ligaments, preparing breasts to produce milk...it’s a monumental strain on the body followed by a feat of strength akin to running two or three (or more) marathons, followed by extreme sleep deprivation for weeks/months as you care for a newborn 24/7.

It takes several months, sometimes up to a year to recover and that is if all goes well (no severe tears, blood loss, surgery that cuts through layers of tissue and nerves..). The vast majority of maternal deaths occur in the first few months after birth if that’s any indication.[/quote]

I'm also an adoptive parent, and a parent by birth, and I've had a hysterectomy, which is nothing like a c-section other than the incision.  In that case, it was open surgery and my surgeon highly recommended 6 weeks of total recovery, however, he also cleared me to resume life as normal right after 6 weeks, which doesn't seem quite right either.[/quote]

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