Stephanie Williams, 38, is a neonatal intensive care nurse. She lives in Denver with her daughter, Riley Drew, six weeks. She plans to take 12 weeks off work—a mixture of six weeks’ disability pay, plus 100 hours of paid time off, and the rest unpaid but covered by her savings.To return to the main paid leave article, .It took me a long time to decide to have a baby on my own.
That’s why I’m coming up on being an older first-time mom. You often think you’re going to meet the “right” person, whatever that is.
And I spent years attempting to date or find someone, or thinking that I would end up in a relationship before I had kids.But I always knew, no matter what, I wanted a family, and it was always in the back of my mind that doing it alone was an option.
When I made the decision two years ago that this was what I wanted to do, it was liberating—a thousand pounds came off my shoulders, because I realized it was what I really wanted.
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