Daddy’s time off?

I don't want to hijack Jax post about her lovely bouncer, so I thought I'd start a new one...

How much time will your partner/hubby get off when your new baby arrives? How much are they entitled to, and how much extra are they taking?


Nathaniel is entitled to one day to attend the birth... and nothing extra. He has come to a private arrangement with the school so that he can have two or three days more without cutting into his sickleave.

Holy macaroni batman ! One day !?

I think Roland is entitled to two weeks "paternity leave" (unpaid), and then if he wants to take paid leave after that, it's up to him to decide.

I think we are quite lucky again in that his employer is so good with things like this (time off), especially considering how long he has been there (9 years now I think...).

I'd love for him to have four weeks, but will settle for three

i think dean is going to have 2wks of his annual leave when bubs is born. it may turn out to be more yet. he gets 4wks holiday each year and this year is his turn to work over xmas so it makes sense to use these weeks up when bubs comes otherwise he'll just loose them.

Well as mentioned my hubby is taking 4 weeks - all paid. He gets 1 week paid and 1 week unpaid paternity...he's only taking the paid week. The other 3 weeks are annual leave.

my hubby gets 2 weeks unpaid leave, but as baby is due over xmas, and his firm shut down over that time, he wont need to take any. he might take an extra week annual leave, and go back a week later in january, but we really haven't discussed it too much. We are just happy that he (and we lol) will be able to have annual leave and get paid this time round :)

The timing was great for us! Arna was born June 2nd which is in the "dry" season for the farm that we were working on so David just had to do about 3 hours of work a day and was home for the rest! but when arna was about a month old calving started and I was lucky to see David before 11pm!! (5am - 11pm on the farm with brekkie, lunch and dinner break) - usually they are home around 6pm but the boss we had made david help out with his contracting business...
Anyway... If #2 (wen it is in my tummy) is due in August well it will be me and bub (and Arna) on our own all day for abou 4 months!! YIPEE (not)

WHOA!!@!@!!@ Roland has survived NINE YEARS at that place....I have a whole new respect for him.

My hubby's employer is amazingly great about paternity leave/time off. Nick had two and a half weeks off when Andrew was born that just happened followed by them setting up a workstation for him at home so that he could work from home once or twice a week if he wanted to. This time he is going to take annual leave of two weeks - because he has excess leave and needs to use it or lose it...and has been able to work from home through the yukky challenging days of the pregnancy.

Oh - and to brag a little more...because he works mainly with an American team in Detroit (ikk - think 8 Mile) they organised an AMAZINGLY huge baby bath hamper full of the complete Pumpkin Patch newborn and boy range when Andrew was born and with lots of really nice Body Shop lotions and oils for me. It would have been about US$500 worth. Very cool.

My partner gets a whopping 4 days off. Apparently it's something to do with me not working, and how his paternity leave provision doesn't kick in without me in employment. His HR department is all heart.

We're going to work around it with his annual leave and see how it goes. Hopefully they'll change their minds and let him stay at home a little longer. We'll see.

I think my DH will take a week off, he gets 2 days paid 'special leave' and the other 3 can be taken as 'sick leave'. With bubs due close to Xmas he will take further time off over then as annual leave as work shuts down then anyway and he always has leave. If bubs is 2 weeks late it will be getting close to Xmas and the 5 days will run into the Xmas leave.