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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree that everyone should get some time off of work, but don’t make the mistake of thinking maternity leave is a vacation or a refresh. It’s grueling work. I came back from maternity leave more stressed than when I left. Agree with the one of the posters above that you should utilize your vacation as much as you can, or take sabbatical if your company offers it. [/quote]

Exactly this.

Birth is difficult, physically and mentally

Many women have surgical scars and stitches where you can't lift anything heavier than your baby and movement is limited.

Many women have tears and stitches in their nether regions that make it painful and nearly impossible to defacate or even sit unless there is an ice pack under their bottom.

Most women bleed for a month after childbirth.

Many women have post partum depression or even psychosis, due to hormone changes.

Many women are unable to get more than 2 consecutive hours of sleep, due to breast feeding or 3 hours due to bottle feeding.

Many women are engorged, infected milk ducts, bleeding nipples and squirting milk everywhere if they even think about their baby, until their bodies learn to regulate milk, around a month or two.

Many women are unable to even take daily shower that first month or two.

Many women cannot drive post child birth.

The list goes on.

To equate the aftermath of childbirth to some childless person wanting paid "me time" so they can luxuriate and spoil themselves on the company dime, is frankly, selfish, tone deaf, and disgusting.

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