A new group is highlighting the raw realities of bringing humans into the world and asking parents to demand paid family leave.
During this period of cursed jockeying, you may have seen people sharing post-birth stories of how they weren’t wiping their raw vaginas with toilet paper but rather rinsing them with a squirt bottle, stuffing ice packs into their hospital-issued mesh underwear, still bleeding weeks later, or unable to drive a car post C-section, all while getting comically small amounts of sleep because they were trying to keep a newborn alive.
wrote an open letter to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urging them to keep paid leave in the bill.in the world—and the only rich country—not to guarantee paid leave. According to the New York Times, the average paid maternity leave globally is 29 weeks, and the average paid paternity leave is 16 weeks. Here, people are left to the mercies of their employers’ policies.
Now a group called the “Chamber of Mothers” is rallying people to fight for paid leave, and evoking some of the raw realities of birth. “As we talk about how we can’t
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