https://breastfeedingworld.org/2015/09/demoted-due-pregnancy-youre-going-stupid/ Spreading the Breastfeeding Love, One Latch at a Time Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://breastfeedingworld.org/2015/09/demoted-due-pregnancy-youre-going-stupid/#comment-168 Fri, 02 Oct 2015 03:29:58 +0000 http://breastfeedingworld.org/?p=1600#comment-168 Thanks for sharing! We need to be heard and people need to know this is happening everywhere and it is NOT ok. Sorry you had such a rough time with your pregnancy but I am so happy you have a healthy baby now! Good luck on your search, enjoy the baby and the universe will send something your way when its ready!

]]> https://breastfeedingworld.org/2015/09/demoted-due-pregnancy-youre-going-stupid/#comment-167 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:11:41 +0000 http://breastfeedingworld.org/?p=1600#comment-167 I had a similar experience with my job. I worked for a busy clinic the fit people with orthotic and prosthetic devices. I worked my butt off for them. I was working for two clinics on my own, running the central location where I was, any time anyone had a problem they went through me. I came in early, left late, worked through lunch. At around 4 months I let my manager know I was expecting a baby, then the questions began to fly, when would he be born, how long was I thinking of taking for maternity leave, would I be coming back full-time or part-time? Of course I knew none of the answers to these questions as I was a first-time mom. 2 seperate times I was put on bed rest @,5 months because of my back, they immediately tried contacting the insurance company to see if they could begin my leave early and not use my accrued PTO. The insurance company of course, adamantly denied it saying the baby must be born. I continued on now, a little scared of what tgey were up to. My pregnancy became higher risk I had an issue with my placenta and gestational diabetes. I still always worked and scheduled all the necessary appointments before and after work. I brought up the lunch issue with my boss and said because I have GD I need to at regularly and test my sugar levels and since I am the only one here for the whole day we need to figure something out so that I may take a lunch (as is tge law) well shortly there after I was written up for not taking lunches. Then there were small complaints on a daily about hiw slow I had become, finally I had to have an emergency c-section and my son was born 3 weeks early. When it was time to return after the 12 weeks, I was told there was no possibility of going in part-time for a while, like they had originally offered and I either had to work full-time or not at all. Obviously my preterm son was my all and needed me more so, it was a no brainer and I went with not at all. I am currently home with him looking for something good, close and part-time, but those losers I would never work for again. Not after how terribly they treated me during such a difficult time in my pregnancy. All is well that ends well and I am better than them as you are better than those greedy monsters.

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