Dara Ladjevardian, an OB GYN from California, took five months of maternity leave and kept building wealth through state disability, paid family leave, and her group's short-term disability policy. She shares how her family managed finances during that time.
So I am an OB GYN. I'm about 2 1/2 years out of residency and I live in California. I took a five month maternity leave and somehow we continued to build wealth during that time. Some of it was paid. California does have some nice benefits. So we did get. I got state disability for the time I was on pregnancy disability leave. And then we also have paid family leave for the state. So it's less money than you would make as a doc, but it's not nothing. And then my group also had a temporary short term disability policy, which I got for several weeks as well. So when we calculated all those different state and through my group leave policy, it was about $50,000 between the both of us.
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