People talk about it being difficult for Kate to go to the wedding so soon as if women who have babies just lie around bleeding and leaking milk all over the place for weeks on end after the birth. Of course it’s not a pleasant situation and definitely uncomfortable but many women who don’t get maternity leave go back to full time work within a few weeks. I’m sure Kate isn’t worried about sitting through an hour long wedding four weeks after giving birth, people should give her some credit!

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“many women who don’t get maternity leave go back to full time work within a few weeks.” Sorry but I absolutely hate this narrative. The US is an anomaly. The rest of the developed world realises that women need time off. Just because some women are forced by economic situations to go back to work doesn’t mean it’s the norm or that every woman should aim for it or that it’s ok to force someone else to return to work before they’re ready. Giving women time off is giving them credit for the huge emotional and physical stress they’ve put their body under for 9 months. Kate obviously feels well enough to go and that’s great. But if she wasn’t, that would be fine too. There will be many women who will not be able to and I’m not going to feed in to a line of thought that makes them feel less than or ashamed because of it. 

It takes a woman’s body 2 years to fully recover from a pregnancy and the first few weeks is bleeding and leaky boobs, sure some women do go back to work within a few weeks but 6 weeks is the typical maternity leave in US as preschools/daycares wont take a baby under 6 weeks old. That all being said those women going back aren’t Kate, they don’t have to be in the public view and can excuse themselves if they need to pump or change their pad but she can’t do that at the wedding. She can’t just get up because she is leaking and in pain because her breast are full and heaven forbid the pads to stop the leaking get full, also she has to choose an outfit that makes them unnoticeable. She is in a position NONE of us will ever understand!