The Army will now allow both parents to take paid medical leave after a new birth, miscarriage or stillbirth.
reported. The social media group grew into a broader effort to pushes changes through the Army hierarchy.
After Edge had a miscarriage during her first pregnancy in 2016, she was only granted two days of convalescent leave. She asked for more time to grieve but was denied, so she took two weeks of vacation on her own “to be able to process and mourn the loss of my family and the future that I thought I was going to have.”
Soldiers who give birth will also be “deferred or excused” for a year after their pregnancy from duties that take them away from home for more than a normal workday, such as field training, deployments, training center rotations and temporary duty. Soldiers are also now excused from wearing service uniforms during pregnancy and up to one year post-partum, according. Before now, soldiers had to buy new unforms or get their uniforms altered. With the new policy, soldiers can wear a combination of Army uniforms and maternity uniforms.
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