Maternity Leave in Residency

Maternity and medical leave during residency: Time to standardize?☆

I was full of dread the day I went to the pediatrician for my newborn son’s three-week checkup. The following week I was to return to my clinical duties as a dermatology resident, just 4 weeks post partum. The pediatrician learned of this and strongly urged me to take more time off. She insisted that 6 weeks is the minimum time needed to establish breast-feeding, strengthen my mother-baby bond,...

Paternity leave in medical residency.

Maternity and Family Leave Policy∗

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general conclusions. First, despite important barriers to the take-up of leave, both the implementation of new pro...

Maternity Leave for Residents and Young Attendings

This is a very charged topic! I have varied opinions on this topic depending upon whether I am wearing my hat as a department chair and residency director or as a mother and grandmother to a daughter and granddaughter. To give some historical context, I must share with the readership that my first child was a stillborn during my chief residency year in dermatology. I took three days off after t...

Influence of maternity leave on exclusive breastfeeding.

OBJECTIVES To describe the profile of women with children aged under 4 months living in the Brazilian state capitals and in the Federal District according to their working status and to analyze the influence of maternity leave on exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) among working women. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study with data extracted from the II National Maternal Breastfeeding Prevalenc...