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| badger, yahr, badger, escher Member ![Picture of daysleeper [if I'm lucky]](http://pb.xanga.com/bb/c7/bbc777a647c2f77a63f9d5b900c9e2e315735494.jpg?v=9 "Picture of daysleeper [if I'm lucky]") |
That sounds like an AWESOME idea, and one I would love to use as well! The first thing that came to mind reading your idea, though I don't know for sure how well it might work, is perhaps seeing if some kind of existing parent support organization, such as this "Moms Club"*, could be adapted for your idea. By that I mean, either approaching a group near you if you can find one and offering your idea to see if they'd like to do it, or making your own "franchise" with your idea in mind. *(I don't know anything about that organization beyond what I saw on their website. I only just learned there's one near me and I am debating checking them out. It's such a relief to see one that (I think) is not church-based!!) Edit to add: You could also try checking Meetup.com for existing groups in your area that you could pitch your idea to. __________________________________ Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.  | |||
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| badger, yahr, badger, escher Member |
That is so awesome! I bet Finland is also one of the countries that provides better maternity leave too? I should've moved there before I got pregnant!  __________________________________ Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. | |||
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BTW, Christy and I decided early on as a couple that if we visited friends with babies, particularly a first-born, we would not leave without performing some small task. When we drop off a meal, Christy stays and chats with the mom while I go wash dishes or get the food out on plates or pick up a room. __________ AJGraeme "Why are there ghosts in the kitchen punching each other in the balls?" - Aidan, "Being Human" "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton My moderator voice is red. | |||
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Tis, that is hilarious! All we get is a knapsack. __ I like it maybe 63 percent! | |||
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| is like fusion cuisine, if Canada can be seen as having a cuisine. Member  |
You are awesome. My doula friend/Lamaze instructor actually has a letter that she prints out for friends and family a few weeks before she has a baby that basically says, do what Dweller and Christy do  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tropigoth Mama It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy. ~ Unknown Originally Registered: June 14, 2007 | |||
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To be fair, we didn't come up with this idea, but found out about it through an article, maybe even the same one your friend handed out. I find most acts of charity are missed out on not because people are jerks, but because they just don't know. __________ AJGraeme "Why are there ghosts in the kitchen punching each other in the balls?" - Aidan, "Being Human" "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." - G.K. Chesterton My moderator voice is red. | |||
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| Click here! Member  |
Yeah, I have to warn you, this may sound a bit depressing to all you guys Not Having Babies In Finland: Maternity leave starts about a month before the birth and lasts 105 days. (Note that only working days are counted, so a week = 5 days.) Paternity leave is 18 working days following the birth and an extra 18 working days a few months later. These are followed by 158 working days of parental leave, wich the parents can divide between themselves as they please. During all those leaves the parental allowance is about 75% of your normal income. In addition, you're legally entitled to stay at home taking care of your child until s/he's 3 years old and be guaranteed your old job back when you return (provided you had a permanent contract), although after the parental allowance runs out the child home care allowance is only a little over 300€/month. Anyway, nearly all families have one parent*) staying at home until the baby's at least 10 or 11 months, and 90% until the kid's 18-24 months. *) Usually still the mothers: I recently read that the vast majority of Finnish fathers use their paternity leave, but only 15% take any parental leave (using 7% of all parental leave days taken). So it's definitely not equally divided yet. ✄-------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here. | |||
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| Melittosphex sapiens Member  |
Oh my lord, I *love* the cardboard box! It's essentially just a nice, draught-proof basinette! *********************** "bring on the be-tentacled oppressors" - fluffyllama | |||
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| badger, yahr, badger, escher Member |
Yes, yes, it did. I'm so terribly jealous right now. Seriously, the USA would have SO much better rates of moms breastfeeding, not to mention millions of other improvements for families due to parents being able to spend more time during those first months or years, if we only had better support for families like so many other nations do. It's horrible, ours is. __________________________________ Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. | |||
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| Dane Cook's Final Horcrux Member  |
I think the length of maternity leave in European countries also has an effect on the numbers of women stayin in work. In the US you have the choice of quitting your job alltogether, or paying for childcare for a baby that can't sit up yet. Here, although there are problems with it for small businesses in particular, you can wait until you have a toddler and go back to your old job, rather than hunting for a new one after a long absence from the workplace. I've not seen any numbers, but I know it would effect my decisions pretty drastically. ____________________________________________________ tiny ball of rage. hilarious, condensed rage - Snazz I never really lost my virginity... it just sort of eventually wore off - Chris Addison Um... I'm thinking that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell? - T-Rex, qwantz.com Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job. - Brian Clough | |||
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Our work offers 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay then I think it's 3 months statutary maternity pay and 3 months no pay. I think you do then have to quit or come back. You get all of your holidays built up whilst you were off, which are worth (depending on what pay scale you are on) between 26 and 36 additional days - 5 to 7 weeks. (if you started your maternity at the beginnning of the holiday period). You can request to come back part time, and if it's at all suitable it does have to be agreed. You do not have to get your old job back, but you have to get something comparable. Men get 2 weeks full pay and 2 weeks statutary paternity. ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. the parrot... ...gets tiresome. the parrot... ...i ate him. CHIKKINZ? | |||
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| waggish jackanape Member  |
We had our big 20 week ultrasound. It's gonna be a girl! That is all. | |||
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| Vampiric Scottie-bat trainer Member  |
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! That is all. ****************************************************************** Mid-life crisis? I haven't gotten over birth trauma yet. - Lester Zombie ****************************************************************** 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be' said the Cat 'or you wouldn't have come here' | |||
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| The Doughmaster Member  |
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Still ridiculously excited for the two (three) of you ~ Non-Mod-Amy, aka Amy of the Lost Ark You are a Bookholder. To prompt, or...LINE! (not to prompt) --not to prompt. That is the question. Whether t'is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of a bad memory, or to take arms against a sea of textual deviations, and...LINE! (by opposing) --by opposing them...LINE! (end) --end...LINE! (them) --end them...LINE! (to prompt, to correct; no more; and by a correction to say we end the heart-ache of a really terrible performance) You didn't have to give me the whole thing! I know it! | |||
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| Weirdy American Tart Thing Member  |
eeeeeeee! Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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Royko, you know she needs a real name AND a board name, now! __ I like it maybe 63 percent! | |||
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| Freelance metaphor inspector Member  |
Royko + Roykette = Roykita?  So excited for you guys! | |||
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| the Penitent Member  |
Racing Royko and Roykette w/ a 20 week BOY ultrasound. (Congrats over there Bro!!) (21 TOTAL digits) <~~not including his nose.  Totally resembles Darth Vader except in the sweet little profile 'nubby-nose' pic. | |||
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Congrats to you and your muse artguy ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. the parrot... ...gets tiresome. the parrot... ...i ate him. CHIKKINZ? | |||
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| Weirdy American Tart Thing Member |
yay! I know I wanted more babies to knit things for, but sheesh, you lot are wearing out my fingers! Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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