This is a comic I published in January this year. I tell about my experience of giving birth and of my maternity leave.
It has been very kindly translated by Ewcia 🙂
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This is a comic I published in January this year. I tell about my experience of giving birth and of my maternity leave.
It has been very kindly translated by Ewcia 🙂
I like this a lot, but in the United States we’re jealous of France!
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Good one
Sent from my iPhone because I like typing with my thumbs.
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Oh wow, you nailed it. That illustration of you standing over the baby and screaming was me 3 years ago. I did the same thing – put him safely in his cot and ran to the last room. Post-natal depression is very real, and needs to be made common knowledge, not a “special case”.
In Australia, we get up to 2 years maternity leave (only 3-6 months paid, depending on the sector, etc.), and the secondary parent gets another 6 months to a year after you go back to work. Plus, amazing support from the hospital and Maternal & Child Health Nurse – on call 24/7 and home visits.
Now we’re travel-working and are in the middle east, where women have to go back to work after 60 days. SIXTY DAYS! I didn’t even know his routine at 60 days. I didn’t even understand what had happened to my body.
The common justification “women have been doing this for centuries” makes it very easy to pass archaic laws that don’t cater to the wellbeing of the mum or child. I understand that some mums HAVE to go back to work for monetary reasons, and some WANT to go back, I respect that. But it should be made mandatory to see if you CAN. Mentally and physically, can you take on more?
Phew! Got that off my chest 🙂 Love your blog!
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Exactly!!!
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Loved your depiction of the reality of maternity leave. Excellent points about postpartum depression. Totally can relate as I had a similar experience 18 years ago with the birth of my daughter – except I got to stay 4 nights in the hospital from an emergency C-section.
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In the U.S., we only get [up to] 12 weeks of unpaid leave (job protection) unless our company provided something else [which most don’t]. It’s deplorable.
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Great work, Emma. Looking forward to what you share next.
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Really dig your creations. ty
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Love love love LOVEEEE this! Exactly how it is! I loved it so much I had to share it on FB, it really gets the point how about PND! Absolutely love it!
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Loved it! I’m going to show this post to my mother and tell her how much I love her. Here in India paternity leaves aren’t that convenient & my mum had to go through 2 such “maternity leaves” for my sister and I…
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Reblogged this on Μέρα Νύχτα.
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Thank you so much for this history.
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Here in the US we have even less 😦 Hopefully the US *and* France….and everywhere else can finally recognize that leave for birth needs to be a right for all parents!
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Thank you for sharing so brutally and honestly! Merci merci beaucoup!
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Love it, tells it like it is. ❤
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