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    Parents in Britain to be granted bereavement leave after miscarriage
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    Parents in Britain to be granted bereavement leave after miscarriage

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    3. therealmushroomsquid on

      Knew a guy who lost a kid late term. The amount of fighting he had to do to get leads when they expected him back after a few days to a week…

      Guy had to get signed of sick in the end for mental health in order to get it. This is a small win, but its a good one. And it should of been in place a long time ago

    4. AxiosXiphos on

      Too late for me… hope others benefit. It was relatively early but it still destroyed me. Took me a long time for me and my wife to consider trying again.

    5. SpiffingAfternoonTea on

      Very good thing, some people don’t realise that a miscarriage can take several weeks to complete

    6. Mission_Ad5721 on

      But how do you discuss this with your manager ? My ex boss asked me to be in the offoce and fired me later because I was not focused ( I was, it was an excuse). This is tricky.

    7. danystormborne on

      Is there a gestational age threshold for this or will it support all miscarriage?

    8. missingpieces82 on

      After my wife had a miscarriage, I struggled emotionally. I’d never had to deal with death or loss, and it hit me hard that I wasn’t going to be a dad (that time around). I took two weeks off work to try to sort my head out. My old manager said to me that I’d not dealt with it well, and should probably consider a different career in a different industry.

      Jokes on her, I’m still here 11 years on, same industry, senior role, and have two kids. She’s no longer in the industry.

      This is definitely good news for all prospective parents.

    9. AndroidsHeart on

      I’m from Canada, got 3 days for my miscarriage. I think my husband got 10, he works from home and didn’t take any time off. It was early, only 8 weeks. I could have a toddler die and my work feels bereavement of 3 days is good enough.

    10. Crystal_Moon82 on

      I got signed off sick for a month following my tfmr, it wasnt enough, the grief and postpartum symptoms that came with it were the hardest thing I have ever been through. Luckily my husband also got signed off at the same time as I was suicidal for the first two weeks afterwards and he watched me like a hawk. It amazes me that you are just expected to get on as normal after such a life altering event as losing a baby, no matter how or when it happens. I hope its at least 3 months as it really is an horrific thing to go through.

    11. UnashamedlyFemme on

      What a strange culture we are. We believe that the death of an unborn child is a hugely tragic and upsetting event while simultaneously seeing no issue with now allowing a mother to kill her unborn child at any point if she wants to.

    12. box_twenty_two on

      I got 14 days “lost pregnancy leave” when I lost my baby at 21 weeks recently. If he’d been born just 3 weeks later I would have qualified for maternity leave regardless of whether he was born alive or stillborn. I burnt through my remaining sick days and now any further time off is unpaid. So I’m back at work, and totally unable to function.

      I realise I at least got 14 days where others have none. But when you’ve given birth to a sleeping child, it takes more than 14 days to even begin to want to face the outside world again.

    13. leclercwitch on

      Too late for me but I’m glad others will now have this. It’s a big step forward