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“To go through a loss of this magnitude and still be concerned about whether you're going to also lose your job on top of it because you have to — you're on survival mode.," she said."It’s just cruel.”Before being pregnant with Nina, Swaminathan also had suffered a miscarriage of twins. She remembers completing the miscarriage on a Sunday, and returning to work the next day. “Emotionally, you're just so fragile, and then you have to go back to work as if nothing happened.
Von Rotz said she hopes the new law will not only give families the time to grieve, but raise awareness with employers about pregnancy and infant loss and lessen the stigma associated with it.While Swaminathan was able to get short-term disability after giving birth to her Nina, she wasn’t entitled to maternity leave.
“This is now the new baseline. And I think that's a very good thing,” Aditya Swaminathan said. But he says he’ll continue to work to allow for family leave for parents who’ve experienced an infant loss like his. While he was able to take five days off after Nina’s death for bereavement, he returned to work right after.
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