Congrats! You’re the first person to have a baby at your startup. Now what?
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Walks through concrete steps: googling policy, using the California state disability website, joining a 3k-member Facebook group, and confirming that the company supplements income for 12 weeks full salary; documents every email and files paperwork deadlines. Recommends building a pragmatic mother's room — lockable door, curtains, comfy chairs, fridge and lockers — and warns of a 15-month daycare waitlist and newborn realities like wake newborns every three hours plus watching for postpartum depression.
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