Maternity Leave Advice for #Doctors

My advice initially is just to ask a lot of questions of HR and to figure out what the options are. But even actually stepping back before that, when I was looking for jobs, I knew that I was going to have another baby soon. So that was actually what some of the questions that I was asking on my pro con list when I was looking at different jobs is like, what does maternity leave look like? I had some groups that said kind of like, oh, you know, we figure it out. And that's a very unsatisfying response. I didn't like that. So, you know, the group that I picked, they had very clear policies in place and they followed kind of like the I'm an employee, so they follow the guidelines that our state sets up, which allows pretty generous maternity leave. And, you know, they seem very flexible if I even need to take more time after that. So that was a big factor. And then after, when I'm actually planning the maternity leave, it was just talking to HR and really, like, planning things out.