Maternity Leave Stories from Moms at 100 Best Companies

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Maternity Leave Moments

By Helen Jonsen

Twitter: @Helen_Jonsen

Join our Blog Carnival on Paid Parental Leave. We want to post your #workmom stories of taking maternity leave with your babies. Was it a paid leave? How did you arrange it? How did you spend your time-the real stories of lack of showers, sneaking peeks at your Blackberry or returning to work faster than you thought you could or would? Send your blog post to webeditor@workingmother.com.

Include your full name and state as a part of your post, and your Twitter @ name if you have one.

Maternity Leave Stories from Moms at 100 Best Companies

Posted on October 03, 2011

related tags: Maternity & Parental Leave

We have asked moms how they used their maternity leave and whether it was enough. At the Working Mother 100 Best Companies all women are given some length of paid leave. Some of those moms tell their stories.These employers offer on average 7 weeks paid maternity leave and 3 weeks paid paternity leave.

Time Well Spent: Sharing the early weeks with a stay-at-home spouse, giving a sickly child a new lease on life, organizing a large family around its newest member, and not getting non-work projects accomplished: These moms all used their maternity leaves to the fullest advantage.

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