When Rebecca was born, my company offered four weeks’ paid leave. I know I was lucky to have that kind of stability. Even so, we were still paying off my husband’s law-school loans. I was absurdly excited to learn Rebecca was breech and she had to be delivered via cesarean section, which meant I got an extra two weeks of disability pay because the C-section was classified as major surgery. When Andrew came along two years later, I chose to have a C-section, in part because of those extra two weeks’ pay.
Ack. Leave policy steering women into having c-sections? :(
