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I have had 6 miscarriages due to a genetic condition and I worked up until I was pulling into the hospital to have the fetus that was no longer alive removed because my body wouldn't pass it on its own. I had to use what little PTO I had if I wanted any time off. Now that I have a healthy baby girl who is 3 months old, 12 weeks isn't enough time. It's scientifically proven that a woman's hormones, body, mind, is not back to normal for 1-2 yrs. The least we could do is offer 6 months of paid maternity leave. As a primary provider in my household, I cannot afford to take anytime off beyond what is approved by the state and i only could because my employer agreed to provide supplemental pay to cover the gap between fmla and my salary. Without what they have done I would have defaulted on my mortgage to take even just 6 weeks.
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Jennifer supported: Maternity Leave: Extend & Guarantee 12-24 Weeks of Paid Leave, Even After Miscarriage.Medicaid should cover lactation services provided by a non-physician IBCLC. When I gave birth, I did everything I was told when it came to breastfeeding my healthy baby. I asked for extra help because I felt like her latch wasn’t right but the hospitals LC stuck her finger in baby’s mouth and I was assured she was eating enough. I wanted to get a second opinion with a local IBCLC who was highly recommended, but we have Medicaid, and there are no options available.
When we got home on baby’s first day, she seemed to be doing as well as in the hospital, but she was rapidly dropping weight(she was 9.4!) and not going through very many diapers. The lactation specialist at the hospital told be over the phone, that she was fine as long as she kept having that small but steady output, and nursed as often as baby wanted. The morning of her first appointment, she barely could wake up. She didn’t seem to want to breastfeed, but I tried that and a bottle of my milk anyway. We got to the doctor and she couldn’t get her to eat either. She was nearly unresponsive, even to pain stimuli she didn’t flinch. We rushed her to the children’s hospital where she was the ‘sickest child in the ER waiting room.’ They gave me a pump and bottles to try to sustain her while waiting hours for a room, since her heart and oxygen were no concern. When they admitted her and get her blood checked(which took 10minutes, 5 sites, and tons of poking and squeezing to get enough) they said she was severely dehydrated and depleted of essential nutrients.
3 days we had to stay in PICU, pumping, force feeding, supplementing, and weighing diapers, while my newborn recovered from what easily could’ve been prevented by the support and thorough guidance of a professional IBCLC. Instead of having the readily available help with baby’s latch with a very slight tongue tie issue, we had that hospital stay, followed by ENT appointments weeks later. In the meantime I had reached out and begged for help from other moms who had initial issues feeding their brand new babies with even severe tie issues, and they taught me what their IBCLCs had taught them from the start. That’s what saved my baby. I needed that from the start. Our insurance wouldn’t help. Every mother and every baby needs that help.
Samantha supported: Urge Medicaid to Cover and Reimburse IBCLC-Provided Lactation ServicesChildcare costs too much and the state wants my disabled above the knee amputee husband to return to work to even be able to have healthcare. Our daughter is 3 I can’t afford to pay $2400 a month for childcare… so my husband is staying home to help offset that cost… while I work my butt off to try to stay afloat… Beginning of 2023 when my husband got sick we lost 3/4 of our income and then inflation hit… I work as much as I can at my main job and then I take care of my family at home and then I have my photography business that I tried to start 3 months before my husband got sick but I only brought in 38,000 this year… and with my husband losing his insurance with the coming of this next year he is losing IRIS so I will be losing caregiver compensation so my family is going to be losing $1200 a month… so I am hugely stressed right now… especially on how I am even just going to be able to keep a roof over my families heads when that is literally what I pay for rent every month… but we make too much to get help but also don’t make enough to get any help.
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