@KOR121 I hope your job takes you back after 12 weeks. You may be surprised that they do, I think most companies realize it's in their best interest to keep on seasoned employees.
My husband and I make around the same amount as well. If I can find daycare/childcare that one of my paychecks will cover then we will be set. That's my main goal, so I'll still have a whole paycheck for half of the mortgage, groceries and savings. My husband has a lot of student loans and I don't want him to worry about childcare because he keeps wanting to take all the financial burden upon himself since his parents raised him with 50s household ideals. Ugh.
Can the US become Canada? You guys could use some more land and people, right? Plus, we have Hawaii!!! Who doesn't want that????
I don't have "maternity leave" because I'm a SAHM, but I am looking forward to having the summer with all the kids to relax and not worry about getting up early to get the older ones ready for school.
THIS! Our kids have to be up at 6:20 for school (whyyyyy????), and I'm going to be sooooo happy to lounge in jammies and wake up when we wake up, not to mention taking walks, going to parks, the lake, etc. My other two were born in March and December, and in ND, it's brutal.
The timing is great for the teaching schedule here. I probably won't have to go back until the September following baby's 1st birthday...that kind of rocks!
Also, my 30th is in July, so I will get to celebrate that with a glass (or 2) of wine!
You're taking a whole year off? Jealous! Good for you
@samsonator In Canada we get the full year for maternity leave. We're very lucky here.
I never knew that! That's awesome! Is it paid?
@samsonator Yeah, partially. We get about 55% of our regular wage.
I get 12 weeks unpaid. My ILs are also against any US candidates who are FOR better maternity leave. They are gonna flip when they learn I'm going back to work, even if it is because I have to.
I'm both happy for you and jealous of you at the same time. I've also heard tha Canadians have some type of assistance to help with daycare costs, any truth in that?
Canadian here, jumping into convo. In Quebec they have daycare coverage for everyone - I think families pay like $7 or $8 dollars a day across the board (unless you get a nanny or something) and the gov. pays the rest. That's not the case across Canada tho - but I know there's been calls for a National Daycare Strategy. We just got a new Prime Minister also and one of his promises was to extend our current 1 year maternity leave to 18 months. Unemployment covers approx. 55% of your wage and if you work for a company with benefits, you get more. I work for the Cdn government and I get topped up to 93% of my full time wage.
I still think it's baffling that the US has such a crap maternity leave policy. I thought I read Hilary Clinton has this on her platform?
What?! That would be amazing if your maternity leave was extended. I'm seriously really happy that you guys get good leave!!
Clinton and Sanders both want a more suitable maternity leave and the democratic race is pretty much between them. I cried during the debate when Clinton was saying how hard it was for her to leave her sick baby just to go to work.
It's sad the US doesn't support working moms but we have to make the best of it. I'm going to be budget shopping baby stuff and hanging on to my money for dear life so we can survive financially during my 6-12 week leave. I really hope this country catches up with the rest of the modern world in maternity leave at some point. Likely not by June, but hopefully before this baby has babies of their own.
Or maybe we'll have to invade Canada :P
Another Canadian here! I'm in Ontario and we don't have any subsidized daycare around here. I work on a university campus that has a city-run daycare and it's $1700/month for a baby, and gets cheaper as they get older. You can find private ones that would be around $1000 though. I'll get topped up to 95% for 4 months and then only get the employment insurance 55% for the rest of the year. 18-month maternity leave would be awesome, but I know that even with 12 months, many go back early because 55% of your wage can be tough to live off of if you don't make much to begin with.
@CopperLane You can just move here, no need to invade! :P This is what we do at the border:
Less people around our babies will be sick compared to a winter baby! Oh and I won't have to worry about my older kids bringing germs home from school, because they won't be in school!
(I had given two negatives earlier... So I tried to find my optimistic side, if that even exists, and think of some positives!)
I would love to live in Canada, it's gorgeous, the people are wonderful, the structure of the government is more desirable for me (I know some Americans would disagree with me), and MATERNITY leave. (Oh, and Degrassi).
The timing is great for the teaching schedule here. I probably won't have to go back until the September following baby's 1st birthday...that kind of rocks!
Also, my 30th is in July, so I will get to celebrate that with a glass (or 2) of wine!
You're taking a whole year off? Jealous! Good for you
@samsonator In Canada we get the full year for maternity leave. We're very lucky here.
I never knew that! That's awesome! Is it paid?
@samsonator Yeah, partially. We get about 55% of our regular wage.
I get 12 weeks unpaid. My ILs are also against any US candidates who are FOR better maternity leave. They are gonna flip when they learn I'm going back to work, even if it is because I have to.
I'm both happy for you and jealous of you at the same time. I've also heard tha Canadians have some type of assistance to help with daycare costs, any truth in that?
Canadian here, jumping into convo. In Quebec they have daycare coverage for everyone - I think families pay like $7 or $8 dollars a day across the board (unless you get a nanny or something) and the gov. pays the rest. That's not the case across Canada tho - but I know there's been calls for a National Daycare Strategy. We just got a new Prime Minister also and one of his promises was to extend our current 1 year maternity leave to 18 months. Unemployment covers approx. 55% of your wage and if you work for a company with benefits, you get more. I work for the Cdn government and I get topped up to 93% of my full time wage.
I still think it's baffling that the US has such a crap maternity leave policy. I thought I read Hilary Clinton has this on her platform?
What?! That would be amazing if your maternity leave was extended. I'm seriously really happy that you guys get good leave!!
Clinton and Sanders both want a more suitable maternity leave and the democratic race is pretty much between them. I cried during the debate when Clinton was saying how hard it was for her to leave her sick baby just to go to work.
It's sad the US doesn't support working moms but we have to make the best of it. I'm going to be budget shopping baby stuff and hanging on to my money for dear life so we can survive financially during my 6-12 week leave. I really hope this country catches up with the rest of the modern world in maternity leave at some point. Likely not by June, but hopefully before this baby has babies of their own.
Or maybe we'll have to invade Canada :P
Another Canadian here! I'm in Ontario and we don't have any subsidized daycare around here. I work on a university campus that has a city-run daycare and it's $1700/month for a baby, and gets cheaper as they get older. You can find private ones that would be around $1000 though. I'll get topped up to 95% for 4 months and then only get the employment insurance 55% for the rest of the year. 18-month maternity leave would be awesome, but I know that even with 12 months, many go back early because 55% of your wage can be tough to live off of if you don't make much to begin with.
@CopperLane You can just move here, no need to invade! :P This is what we do at the border:
^^ This. I'm also in Ontario. We don't get the subsidized daycare...maybe we all need to head over to Quebec?!
With this being our first baby, DH & I are trying to put my pay into savings & kind of pretend we aren't getting it, so that once I'm only getting the 55% it won't be too much of a shock. I'm not sure how realistic this approach will be all the time (especially around Christmas), but it's the best way we came up with to prepare for my year off.
I love this thread! DD is a December baby, so I am excited for lots of daylight and warmer weather. Hopefully fewer germs! I'm a June baby too and I always loved having my birthday at the very end of the school year. It was always fun knowing summer vacation was SO close!
Yay June babies! My positives are the convenience and a guaranteed trip every summer.
Everyone in our little family has a June birthday- mine is the 10th, LO due the 11th, DD is the 14th, DH is the 20th. DD was a surprise so it was kind of fun having her birthday fall between ours. LO we tried a few months before conceiving, but I guess he/she wanted to be part of our June birthday club. DH and I have decided that every year in June we will take a family trip to celebrate all our birthdays instead of buying gifts. Hopefully someday our kids will appreciate the memories from the trips more than random toys they throw away a couple years later.
So the opposite of what you asked, BUT the negative is that all our older kids will be home for the summer! I would love a little alone snuggles with the new baby... but I'm due the DAY that school lets out. Three older kids and a newborn are going to be a challenge!
This is a positive for me, lol. I won't have to get up an rush out the door for drop off an pick up. We can all be lazy together and do fun stuff on our own schedule Plus my 5yr old dd is the only one in school so I would still have the two boys home with me. Our daughter is so excited for a baby (she doesn't know we're pregnant yet, lol) so I know she would be so bummed if she had to go to school instead of hang with us all.
A positive for me is that all dh's family just happens to be coming out to visit us for July 4th! They don't know they will be meeting our new addition yet!
Also my little brother is having his wedding the end of July and a lot of my family from the UK will be coming for that and now they will also get to meet our new squish!!! Personal positives but I'm oh so excited about them I had to share
I'm a June baby and never had any trouble being the "youngest" in my grade! DS is a June 2015 baby too. We planned our pregnancies purposely for June because 1) I'm a teacher and 2) I loved being a June baby
1. Outdoors birthday parties make easy for lots of little kiddies!!!
2.) Halfwy to holidays and halfway to birthday. Always got what I needed every 6 months with the season changes.
3.) We started taking DS everywhere at 10 days old (outdoor shopping, restaurants, walks, etc)
*4.) You can take baby to outdoor restaurants and parties with live music and no one will know it they are fussy or crying! Great way to get them used to going out to dinner (we love to go out to eat and wanted to enjoy this with DS as he got older.)
5.) We have an inground pool so we were able to get DS used to water (in the shade of course) and he loved it. *Negative - mommies can't go in for 6 weeks pp.
6.) Baby naps outside in a pack and play... always felt he napped the best out there because unfortunately he's not much of a napper!
Yay June babies! My positives are the convenience and a guaranteed trip every summer.
Everyone in our little family has a June birthday- mine is the 10th, LO due the 11th, DD is the 14th, DH is the 20th. DD was a surprise so it was kind of fun having her birthday fall between ours. LO we tried a few months before conceiving, but I guess he/she wanted to be part of our June birthday club. DH and I have decided that every year in June we will take a family trip to celebrate all our birthdays instead of buying gifts. Hopefully someday our kids will appreciate the memories from the trips more than random toys they throw away a couple years later.
I love that you're all June birthdays... that is too cute!!! I'm June 5, DS is June 22 and LO's EDD is June 8! We have a lot of June birthday in my family, so jokingly my mom was like couldn't you have tried for a different month?!?! Last year everyone was so excited to see if DS would fall on their birthday. He ended up being born on one of our best friends birthday. He was so excited to have a birthday buddy. Our families are taking bets again!
I'm really happy to be having a June baby. Don't have to worry about RSV! Also my DD was born in December, and our anniversary is also in December...add that to all the holidays that time of year...I'm glad that this baby is going to have his/her birthday faaaar away from all that stuff.
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My oldest son is a June 23 baby, too! I think it's a great time for a birthday! This one is due 6/17 (I think) ... I'm hoping we don't have duplicate birthdays!
DUDE!! Just thought of another one- my oldest two were born in March and December and I was so pasty from winter and anemia. Maybe I'll be semi-tan and not look like an accidental goth this time! #winning
@MamaNicoleof3 I had DS June 22 and spent every weekend relaxing in my parents pool and working on my tan. I cannot tell you how many people complimented me on my tan in the hospital and then friends and family upon seeing pictures! I felt so gross and bloated after the section from all the fluids but thanked the tan for helping me not look how I felt lol definitely another positive to add to the list!!
We're really lucky here in England too, everyone on maternity leave is entitled to take 12 months off work. Looking forward to meeting my June baby! x
Dang, England has a 12 month maternity leave too?!?!?!? Heck yeah, and KUDOS to Canada and England!!!!! Wth is wrong w the US?????? Thinking I may wanna move!!!! They(Canada & England) obviously care more about mommies & babies than the United States!!!!! I work for a small company (less than 15 employees) and in the US, there is NO LAW stating they have to give me ANY maternity leave whatsoever, much less paid. I even fall through the cracks for FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) because the size of the company and because I've been employed here for less than a year.
So anyway, sooooo excited to be having a sweet June baby!!!!! Warm weather with a new LO will b amazing! My DH calls the baby our little JuneBug :x
We are doing Healthcare re-enrollment here and one of my co-workers looked up the countries with the best healthcare (don't remember the website or the way they ranked them); but Canada and the UK come in 4th and 5th... US comes in 19th. So it doesn't surprise me that nobody here gets good maternity leave. I'm all for moving to Canada! I'm originally from Ohio anyway and it's close!
@agillespie15 right there with you on the maternity leave with a small company. Did you tell them yet? I haven't. And no one has had a baby here in years. The last one was a VP and owners wife, so I'm sure they let her do whatever. Should be interesting what they tell me.
I'm looking forward to lack of clothes to wear in spring/summer. Sun dresses will be my friend!
The timing is great for the teaching schedule here. I probably won't have to go back until the September following baby's 1st birthday...that kind of rocks! Also, my 30th is in July, so I will get to celebrate that with a glass (or 2) of wine!
Hey my 30 is the end of July too! I'm really excited to be able to celebrate with alcohol! I'll be about 6 weeks pp, by that point so most baby weight will be gone too!
Maxi dresses for being 9 months pregnant then hiding the post baby tummy are awesome! Actually most sun dresses are great for either.
Longer days means DH can take the older boys out after work to give LO and me some alone time.
We have a lot of middle school age girls on our street that I use as mothers helpers. I'll have them all summer! They can go to the pool with me and the kids during the day and play in the water with the older boys while I watch/hang out in the shade with this LO. I also use mothers helpers at home to watch the kids while I nap/shower/clean. They will also help clean.
I'm excited for summer maternity leave, plus, I live in a beach community year round, and the rest of my family comes to the area for the whole summer (June - September) so there will be lots of QT with my parents, sisters, cousins & all their kids! Plus warm weather walks, flowy maxi dresses & flip flops ( I currently hate pants) and late sunsets for evening time outside!
I had my first child June 21. It was wonderful to be able to take her out for walks, to outdoor restaurants, and I wasn't nearly as worried about germs. Plus, it helped so much with the dreaded hormone dump. With warm, sunny, summer weather, my spirits were lifted.
I think it's great that I'll be able to hide my bump in the winter before I'm ready to announce....and the best thing is being off the whole summer! I can take the baby out to the park and just to get some fresh air. That's so much easier to do in the summer than in the bitter winter months lol
I live in Las Vegas, so it will be a huge bonus not to be preggers during our 118+ degree season!!! Most everyone stays indoors between mid June to Sept. (Its just too dang hot) so I hope I don't go stir crazy from being cooped up indoors. Also, it's a slow season for both my jobs... bartender at a golf course (again, too hot to play 18 holes) and for Real Estate (not many ppl move to Nevada in the Summer), so plenty of time to bond with baby! Lastly, my SO, will have met his 1yr and qualify for his baby leave at work. Yay to our June baby!
I completely agree that summer mat leave + avoiding pregnancy during the summer months are two major perks of delivering in June. But I'm also hoping that nesting coincides with Spring cleaning. If it does, my house might actually get a deep clean for once!
Re: Benefits of giving birth in June!
My husband and I make around the same amount as well. If I can find daycare/childcare that one of my paychecks will cover then we will be set. That's my main goal, so I'll still have a whole paycheck for half of the mortgage, groceries and savings. My husband has a lot of student loans and I don't want him to worry about childcare because he keeps wanting to take all the financial burden upon himself since his parents raised him with 50s household ideals. Ugh.
Can the US become Canada? You guys could use some more land and people, right? Plus, we have Hawaii!!! Who doesn't want that????
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/13/health/summer-babies-healthier/index.html
One thing I'm not thrilled about is that babe will start daycare in September - right at the beginning of cold & flu season.
(I had given two negatives earlier... So I tried to find my optimistic side, if that even exists, and think of some positives!)
I would love to live in Canada, it's gorgeous, the people are wonderful, the structure of the government is more desirable for me (I know some Americans would disagree with me), and MATERNITY leave. (Oh, and Degrassi).
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Everyone in our little family has a June birthday- mine is the 10th, LO due the 11th, DD is the 14th, DH is the 20th. DD was a surprise so it was kind of fun having her birthday fall between ours. LO we tried a few months before conceiving, but I guess he/she wanted to be part of our June birthday club. DH and I have decided that every year in June we will take a family trip to celebrate all our birthdays instead of buying gifts. Hopefully someday our kids will appreciate the memories from the trips more than random toys they throw away a couple years later.
I won't have to get up an rush out the door for drop off an pick up. We can all be lazy together and do fun stuff on our own schedule
Our daughter is so excited for a baby (she doesn't know we're pregnant yet, lol) so I know she would be so bummed if she had to go to school instead of hang with us all.
Also my little brother is having his wedding the end of July and a lot of my family from the UK will be coming for that and now they will also get to meet our new squish!!!
Personal positives but I'm oh so excited about them I had to share
1. Outdoors birthday parties make easy for lots of little kiddies!!!
2.) Halfwy to holidays and halfway to birthday. Always got what I needed every 6 months with the season changes.
3.) We started taking DS everywhere at 10 days old (outdoor shopping, restaurants, walks, etc)
*4.) You can take baby to outdoor restaurants and parties with live music and no one will know it they are fussy or crying! Great way to get them used to going out to dinner (we love to go out to eat and wanted to enjoy this with DS as he got older.)
5.) We have an inground pool so we were able to get DS used to water (in the shade of course) and he loved it.
*Negative - mommies can't go in for 6 weeks pp.
6.) Baby naps outside in a pack and play... always felt he napped the best out there because unfortunately he's not much of a napper!
Summer also means being able to travel around and show off the baby to relatives without having to worry about the stepson and school.
So anyway, sooooo excited to be having a sweet June baby!!!!! Warm weather with a new LO will b amazing! My DH calls the baby our little JuneBug :x
I'm looking forward to lack of clothes to wear in spring/summer. Sun dresses will be my friend!
Longer days means DH can take the older boys out after work to give LO and me some alone time.
We have a lot of middle school age girls on our street that I use as mothers helpers. I'll have them all summer! They can go to the pool with me and the kids during the day and play in the water with the older boys while I watch/hang out in the shade with this LO. I also use mothers helpers at home to watch the kids while I nap/shower/clean. They will also help clean.
Most everyone stays indoors between mid June to Sept. (Its just too dang hot) so I hope I don't go stir crazy from being cooped up indoors. Also, it's a slow season for both my jobs... bartender at a golf course (again, too hot to play 18 holes) and for Real Estate (not many ppl move to Nevada in the Summer), so plenty of time to bond with baby! Lastly, my SO, will have met his 1yr and qualify for his baby leave at work. Yay to our June baby!