This doesn't feel legal... 😳

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00:00When am I going to go on maternity leave and stop working these long night shifts at the

00:04hospital? I live in America. I'm going to be working until this baby comes. I can't believe

00:09I'm saying this, but let's get ready for another night shift. I thought I was going to have my

00:12baby this week. I can't believe I didn't have him and I have to work another weekend. My body just

00:18really hurts and I'm exhausted and going to work night shift as a nurse this pregnant is not easy.

00:27I am just hoping that being on my feet all night at work does not trigger padromal labor again

00:34because that was awful last weekend. Despite spending years on this miracle baby, she has no

00:39choice but to work. In America, there is zero guaranteed paid maternity leave. It is solely

00:45based on your employer. So for me at my job, I get 12 weeks of maternity leave that is at less than 50%.

00:54If I wanted to take off right now, that would cut into those 12 weeks. And I don't know about you,

01:00but I want to spend as much time as possible with my baby. 12 weeks is not a lot, especially when other

01:06countries are getting one to three years with their babies. So I want the full 12 weeks to have bonding

01:14and breastfeeding and all the things. So if that means I have to work until I give birth, that's what

01:18I'm going to do. And that's very common here in the United States. Her miracle baby took years to

01:24arrive, but now she's forced to leave and return to work. Apparently if I lived in Germany, the second

01:30I got a positive pregnancy test, I would be put on fully paid leave. Another question I kept getting

01:36asked is why do I not switch to day shift? Apparently it's illegal for pregnant women to work nights in

01:40other countries or to work this late in pregnancy in general. Just because I'm pregnant here doesn't

01:45guarantee a day shift spot. When I was offered my job, it was a night shift position. I've been working

01:50nights for six years. So if I wanted a day shift position, I would have to wait for an opening, get put

01:56on a waiting list and probably not get it. When her story went viral, it shocked the world, revealing a

02:03truth too many still face in silence. I don't want to be dramatic, but I think my water just broke

02:07potentially. I went to the bathroom, I was going pee. I finished going pee and then I kind of like stretched and I

02:13felt like a popping sensation in my back. Second it popped, a little bit of fluid came out. I called

02:18my husband because he's at work right now and we're just going to monitor it for now. My water

02:23for sure broke. We're having a baby. I was at two centimeters dilated. They admitted us to labor and

02:28delivery and then they hooked me up to this wireless monitor called Monica. I spent most of my time

02:32bouncing on the yoga ball here. I labored naturally for 10 hours and then they rechecked my cervix and I

02:39was only at a three. I really didn't want Pitocin, but since my water was already broke for the last

02:4410 hours and I wasn't progressing, it was time. I got Pitocin in the epidural, which my epidural

02:48struggled because of my scoliosis and I had to be flipped from side to side to keep the medicine

02:53dispersed. Having your IVF baby placed on your chest after going through infertility and a miscarriage

02:58was just the most magical moment of my entire life.