‘In the First Days After Giving Birth, All I Could Think About Was Money’
29.09.2022 - 13:31
/ glamour.com
As told to and Photography by Shukura Wells, 28, was a mortgage credit underwriter and is launching a business supporting Black-owned cosmetics brands. She lives in Detroit with her daughter, Zendaya, age four, her boyfriend, Dazz, and their son, Dakari Gold, three months. She had no paid leave.To return to the main paid leave article, .I had my son on June 25 this year.
And a few weeks before I gave birth, I took severance from my job. I was working for a mortgage company in Detroit, but the housing market has been slow and our department was really affected.I thought it would be okay because the money I was being paid in severance would take me through to November, my health care was still covered for six months, and I thought it would give me time to put into the beauty business I started recently. But I think I thought I was superwoman, and that even while heavily pregnant and in the early days postpartum, I would be able to do what I needed to with my website: reaching out to businesses, pitching to carry their products on my site, promoting everything.
But I didn’t, and in the first few days after giving birth, all I could think about was money—stressing about what we did and didn’t have, and the fact that the severance money I had was coming to depletion. I didn’t mean to cry, but when I said it out loud, it felt real.On day four I knew I would have to start back working pretty quickly doing something—at the very least part-time just so that we would have enough money with my and my boyfriend’s income. So it was the two of us working, so we weren’t struggling.
This isn’t what I wanted. I would have loved to take a proper maternity leave. I wasn’t able to do it with my first child, as I had no paid leave from my
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