<prompt> Human: Hello PF! I do not know if this is the right sub for this situation, but you always seem to know how to help in every financial situation. Anyways, my fiancé and I are expecting our first child yay!. However, her work provided health care policy did not include short term disability, therefore they are denying her any sort of paid maternity leave. She must now resort to using her Paid Leave a little of two weeks total, which seems like no recovery time or bonding time. Now, Im not here to discuss the costs of children or the matter, we make plenty of money that we are ready for this new addition into our lives. What bothers me is that she has two weeks where she can get paid and no further support. If she has chosen the short term addition no idea what it is called from her provider, she would have gotten up to 12 weeks paid out at 60 of her rate. Any prior history in combating this sort of policy or does anyone have any insight into alternative options we can utilize, so that she can take off more time to be with our first child.Once again, sorry if this isnt the right place for this. Thanks for all your help regardless!Edit 1: she works for a company with over 100 employees, so we will be taking advantage of FMLA.  <response>: Welcome to the US, one of the three countries in the world with no paid maternity leave! Your fiance should be able to take 12 weeks unpaid through FMLA, if her company has over 50 employees and she has worked at least 1,250 hours over the previous 12 months at her company. 