Paternity leave How much time did your S/O take off of work when you had a baby? Luckily I live in California so we have…

DH took a week with DD1 and DD2.

My husband got 10 days, but he's Military so he took leave so it added an extra 29 days for a total of 39 days.

My DH got 2 weeks and only took 1 week when baby was born. We saved the other week for a family vacation or emergencies if needed.

Dh got 2 paid weeks off and took 1 week of vacation with dd. It was so nice to have him off for 3 weeks to play with ds and bond with dd.

My SO just started a new job... He can only take 3 or 4 days off. Unpaid. This is our first baby too. Its pretty upsetting..:(

First baby, 1week. Second baby, none.

He had 3 weeks off with our daughter and he had "2" weeks off for our baby that was supposed to be born this week. He ended up losing one of those weeks because they messed up on my due date so for the day he is born he'll only have 1. He can have more off but won't get pay for them so he'll be returning to work after that week is over.

I live in CA also my husband also got 6 weeks of family bonding. And his boss gave him 2 extra paid weeks off luckily he is in a union and gets awesome benefits.

I went into labor with both my kids on Thursday and had them early Friday morning he went back to work with both that Tuesday following their birth

DH is a teacher, and DD was born in July. He was home with us for about 6 weeks before he had to go back to work.

Well his work gave him 3 weeks to "take care of mom" which he used but he's waiting to use the 6 weeks of bonding time for the holidays.

My SO had a week off.

For the first few, he only took 2-3 days. That was super hard.

The last two he took more like 5 days off.

My so got off a week, i was induced tues, he worked the monday before and was back to work the monday after birth.

He didnt get paid for it either.

With my daughter my bd requested a week off. I had my daughter at 7:22am by 9am they were calling him to see if he can change his leave dates because they were short staffed.

I think so got a week, maybe a little less.

If I go into labor in the early morning of a day hubby will be able to be there for the birth in might even have to be at work later that day so pretty much he'll be there in the emergency for me to push the baby out and then has to go to work. Its sucks. But hes doing what has to be done:) he supports me and is and had always been there for me, so he'll do whatever he can to at least have a whole day off. But theres a chance he'll only have the birth off.

My husband will get about a week paid leave. When I had my son, he didn't get any paid leave and had to take sick days to help me once I got home from the hospital.

My husband took a week, I think. It had to come out of his vacation time. I wish more places paid dads. I could have used him.

I had DD on a Friday morning, so my husband got lucky. He didn't have to work that weekend but went back Monday morning.

2 weeks but he was active duty in the Army at the time and had to go to NTC in California for two weeks afterwards.

My husband took two weeks with my first and one week with my son. He used his family leave and got it paid. He also works overtime a lot to save up more time off for family time

Thankfully both of our jobs are very family oriented and understand that our kids and families come first so they don't mind us taking days off

Unfortunately none. ? He just got a new job recently at the time and he couldn't miss any days.

My husband is a professor. He had a colleague pick up his classes while I was in labor. He went to work the next day.

Thankfully my lo was born on 12/7 and my DH has winter break between semesters so he was home for 4 weeks not long after we brought lo home (like mid Dec to mid Jan).

My husband took 3 weeks because I had a csection. And his boss told him if he took 3 weeks he would just pay him full time that whole time.

My husband got 3 days unpaid.. but he works for a privately owned company run by a complete as$hole

My husband is self employed so he can't take long at most it'll be 2weeks

My husband took a week with our first. He's taking 3 weeks worth this baby. Paid

We are in CA too and my dh is taking the full 6 wks off. With both my boys he took only 2 weeks, one time becuase his old job was crap and he didnt want to take that much time. The second time he had been in the new company for less than a year so he didn't get the 6 wks off. They're asking him the same thing, how long are you taking off? Didnt you just take 2 weeks off last time? That passive aggressive crap is illegal and they cannot pressure him or give him grief for taking his right of paternity leave. Your SO should tell them next time he gets grief that he is going to talk to HR about it and see what they think about harassment. That should put an end to it fairly quickly.

My husband took 2 weeks unpaid

He had to use vacation (pto) days. Usually he will use a week or 2. I wish he got actual paternity leave and could save those vacation days lol

My husband gets 3 days, unpaid lol

He took all his vacation days! Like 3 weeks :)

With dd he went to work the day we got discharged. He dropped us off at my moms and went to work. With ds he used PTO and took off 2 weeks. We couldn't afford for him to not get paid. It was so nice having him home even though he couldn't do much for ds but he helped a lot with dd

He took almost a week off with our first and was with me for labour and day after for our second.

A couple weeks which was great because I had a c section and couldn't drive.

My husband's company gives him 3 weeks combined PTO/sick time a year and one week paid paternity leave. We're hoping he can be off 2-3 weeks but we'll see what's left by then. We also rely on ot and commission so straight 40 hrs is a little tight multiple weeks in a row.

My SO is taking off a week and for 3-4 days of that week I'll be in hospital. ?

Two weeks paid leave (standards in England) and then he added three days holiday to the end.

He was allowed as much unpaid time as he wanted. Though we could only afford for him to take 4 days. It was hard on him because he wanted us to be together longer. His job was very supportive and understanding.

My husband could only take two weeks and it worked out being a week before and a week after and he works away gone 9 days home for 5 so when he left me with a one week old I friggin bawled for days then the next time he left I was fine lol

My husband took off the 3 days I was in the hospital and then one day at home. This time he's just taking off the days that I'm in the hospital.

A week both times but a month would have been awesome. Whoever is giving him ? needs to stfu

We're planning for him to be home a week when our LO is born, I don't think either of us could bear to be home ridden much longer, one of us would have to go ?

Lol.my husband got 4 days. ?

With DD1 he worked at a grocery store and he went in when I was in labor, I asked him to so he wouldn't want to take me in so soon. I had DD1 on Thursday at 10:03 pm, he was scheduled to work on Friday but called in the morning to let them know I had our baby. His manager said congrats but you need to come in tomorrow. That was really annoying but thankfully he was able to take off 6 weeks a week after she was born.

3 Weeks but he's seeing it as a 'staycation' so will probably end up working from home. ?

I'm in .CA also. My so got 12 weeks but he only took 3 of them. But under FMLA, he can take those remaining 9 weeks at anytime before Wyatts 1st birthday. I don't know what I would have done if he took all 12. I wanted him to go back after a week ?

He got a few days but could have had a month ?but since he works from home most of the time it wouldn't of made sense.

He has a co worker that took a month off and he said he got made fun of because of it ?

Thanks for the replies ladies. It breaks my heart how dad's don't get more time off. And yes I'm about to go down to his work and tell Carol to get back in her damn corner and shut the eff up ?

He went back to work 2 days after I had him.

None. :( He went back to work the day we left the hospital.

My so only got a week (unpaid. Could have had more but we can't afford it).

His co workers need to zip it. Having a newborn is extremely hard the first few weeks. I had my mil and fil fly from Arizona the week my so had to return to work. 100% worth it and needed (plus I have a toddler)

My fiancé stayed home a week with our first and a week with our second. He will be taking the same amount of time leave this time too and it will actually be paid this time. The prior 2 he just had to not get paid :/

My SO only got a week off.

DH was in a temp job when DD was born. He took off the 6 days we were in the hospital but that was it. And he needed to bring a copy of my discharge papers to prove we were really there for 6 days. We got out of the hospital at 9pm. He had to work the next more at 8am. It sucked.

My husband only gets 10days technically 8 because one of those days I will be in labor (induction) and one of those days he has to travel back to work.