Does anyone wear a fetal radio dosimeter for work? So far I've just clipped in on my belt (has to be near the belt button), but I can see as maternity pants work their way in that may be an issue.
DD1- Aug11 Angel Baby- June13, said goodbye Oct12 DD2- Aug13 DD3- due Feb17
So, DH is out of town at a convention and I looked up the event's # on instagram and totally found him in the background of someone's picture. He's at Dragoncon so there's something like 70k people there. Sent it to him and he confirmed that it's him. Bad thing is it totally looks like he's looking down at some girl's cleavage.
Does anyone wear a fetal radio dosimeter for work? So far I've just clipped in on my belt (has to be near the belt button), but I can see as maternity pants work their way in that may be an issue.
@Gingersnap - it's a radiation detection badge, with a low limit, for fetal exposure. I work with very minutely radioactive substances and am part of the team that works with the particle accelerator on campus.
DD1- Aug11 Angel Baby- June13, said goodbye Oct12 DD2- Aug13 DD3- due Feb17
@Gingersnap - it's a radiation detection badge, with a low limit, for fetal exposure. I work with very minutely radioactive substances and am part of the team that works with the particle accelerator on campus.
@peachesnbean I've never dealt with one before, so I'm not really helpful, but is it small/light enough that you could wear it on a long lanyard (like a badge)? If not, I'm wondering if there would be a way to attach it something else that's belt-like, but stretchy/comfy/stable enough to wear over your maternity pants without having to actually attach it to your pants.
@grapeskittles4lyfe that is awesome! I only get one week paid maternity leave. I will of course get up the mandated 6 weeks off plus whatever vacation I have saved (which is zero..) My husband however gets up to 12 weeks paid paternity leave through the city though. So I'll go back to work at 6 weeks and then he will take probably a month off to take care of the new babe.
@peachesnbeanYour campus has a particular accelerator?! That's so cool!!! Is it big enough to collide particles?? Cuz that's what I'd be trying to do with it.
I have so many questions. Is it electrostatic or electromagnetic? What do you do for a living? Is this for like medical diagnostics, particle physics?? I'm so curious!!
@scifichick09 - I honestly know very little about the Physics being done and studied. I am the bio-med tech so I take biomedical samples (urine, tissue, blood, etc) and extract the calcium and carbon for the rare:stable isotope to be measured. I do the chemistry, load the cathodes, and send them down stairs to the accelerator. I don't think we do any colliding and I believe it is magnetic. I will PM you my lab link.
DD1- Aug11 Angel Baby- June13, said goodbye Oct12 DD2- Aug13 DD3- due Feb17
@MrsP052909 I can take up to 12 weeks off but none are technically "paid mat leave". I have to use vacation and sick time if I want to get paid 100% (but only as much time as I have available) and beside that it's short term disability paid at only 75%. And I can only take short term disability in the first 6 weeks. It's all really confusing.
Do we address this or bump it down again? Quick before I do something dumb.
I fucking addressed it. What a bish.
I did too when it stayed at the top. I had to do it. Warn me, ban me, I don't care. If I come back as an AE my code word is hippopotamus.
I think I need to plan for this too. I am so upset right now.
I think you're safe. My post and maybe Ginger's may be warnable but probably not instabannable. Then again it could go unnoticed if nobody ever reports it.
@Janefelicity I know! 6 weeks pre-birth at full pay, 4 weeks post-birth at full pay, and then the first year mat leave paid, with another two years unpaid but they hold your job. Also a midwife who will come by as much as you need to visit you at home for 8 weeks post birth, up to a year if your Dr.
This makes me so mad!! I love America but this whole maternity leave thing really pisses me off to no end. I just hate it. Like WTF? America makes it seem like pushing a human out of your vagina and then taking care of it is no big deal. I mean, you guys get leave BEFORE the baby is born, toooooo?
Yup. It's called "mother's protection" (the pay period before the birth). Health insurance pays for it, not your employer. I mean, I'm not going to take the full year this time around (because, there's a lot to do) but since most moms do take the full year if I approach my employer with part-time plans until LO is 1 I am pretty sure they're going to jump at the offer.
@MrsP052909@becbec28 I work at a company that falls under FMLA so I can take off up to 12 weeks. Of those 12 weeks, I'll have 6 weeks that fall under STD, but there's a 4 week elimination period, so STD will only pay out for 2 weeks and it pays out at 60%. Company policy mandates that you have to use up all PTO first, so those first 4 weeks will take up every drop of vacation and sick time I have for the whole 2017 year. We're on a calendar year use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy, so no way to bank anything up. The plus side is that I won't have any weeks at 0 pay and it's significantly better than not having any time off.
Even if she doesn't come back, we should maybe get it off the first page again. Randos keep showing up to give support and that's pissing me off almost as much as she is.
I just don't understand the level of sympathy she wanted. Everyone was kind and she still complained, twice. I don't even know who she is. Has she offered support to anyone?
The entitlement she feels seems even stronger than her disappointment. I wrote a second response but I haven't posted it. I don't think it's worth it at the moment.
Edit I did post. After reading another response I felt it was necessary. I will refrain in the future.
Re: Weekly Randoms (8/29)
https://theawkwardyeti.com/comic/stomach-loses-part-4-food-poisoning/
Any one else have super sh*tty maternity leave?
@peachesnbeanYour campus has a particular accelerator?! That's so cool!!! Is it big enough to collide particles?? Cuz that's what I'd be trying to do with it.
I have so many questions. Is it electrostatic or electromagnetic? What do you do for a living? Is this for like medical diagnostics, particle physics?? I'm so curious!!
ME: 25, DH: 27
TTC #1 since 09/2015
Miscarriage @ 10 wks 02/28/2016
BFP 05/28/2016!
Married: 9/2013
Love my LEO!!
TTC #1: 9/2015
BFP: 2/1/16 MC 2/8/16 @ 5wks
BFP: 5/22/16 RAINBOW BABY
EDD: 1/30/2017 *IT'S A GIRL!!!!*
Kirsten Grace 1/20/17
Noted.
ME: 25, DH: 27
TTC #1 since 09/2015
Miscarriage @ 10 wks 02/28/2016
BFP 05/28/2016!
I would leave it alone at this point if I were her. I she hope she does.
Married: 9/2013
Love my LEO!!
TTC #1: 9/2015
BFP: 2/1/16 MC 2/8/16 @ 5wks
BFP: 5/22/16 RAINBOW BABY
EDD: 1/30/2017 *IT'S A GIRL!!!!*
Kirsten Grace 1/20/17
The entitlement she feels seems even stronger than her disappointment. I wrote a second response but I haven't posted it. I don't think it's worth it at the moment.
Edit I did post. After reading another response I felt it was necessary. I will refrain in the future.
Married: 9/2013
Love my LEO!!
TTC #1: 9/2015
BFP: 2/1/16 MC 2/8/16 @ 5wks
BFP: 5/22/16 RAINBOW BABY
EDD: 1/30/2017 *IT'S A GIRL!!!!*
Kirsten Grace 1/20/17