Dear friends,

Happy to be back after a short period of no mail.
Netherlands does not have paid maternity leaves for years (about 3 months, with some room to stretch with parents leave or sick leave), but we do have the possibility to use parents leave, unpaid , for both parents to share.
Another factor might be that in The Netherlands most moms work parttime and most young children will not be at daycare for more than 2-3 days a week.

Warmly greeting,

Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands

Wendy Blumfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote: The report of the conversation with the abusive works manager is truly horrifying.

But It is important to connect all the issues concerning breastfeeding and societies` attitudes to mothers/babies.
Recent studies showed that the UK and the USA were bottom of the list for children`s happiness and wellbeing.  For such developed wealthy countries this is incomprehensible.
Scandinavia and Holland were top.
Has anyone made the connection that in Holland and Scandinavia, paid maternity leave stretches into years not months with options for the dads to share, while the UK allows three months and the USA a mere six weeks.
Extended maternity leave encourages prolonged periods of breastfeeding and reduces the risk of leaving young children with abusive child-minders.
A client of mine comes from Czechoslovakia and says that there women can take 4 years maternity leave.  I do not know how this relatively poorer country provides in other ways for its children.
Is anyone familiar with Czech family laws?


  Met vriendelijke groet, 

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC 
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