I am freaking out. My husband is a brewer at a local brewery in the US that profits millions a year- from recipes my husband writes and brews and his benefits package doesn’t include any parental leave. None at all. He has to use PTO to take time off to spend time with me and our new son. Our baby came three and a half weeks early on the 11th and my husband only had 13 days of PTO for the rest of the year, he used the rest up earlier this year before we knew we were pregnant. I was able to get 13 weeks maternity leave through my employer, but only 8 weeks full pay, 5 weeks half pay. The past two weeks have been such a struggle and that is with both of us being home and both being hands on with taking care of our baby. My newborn son is cluster feeding and wakes up to nurse every hour or 90 minutes. My husband goes back to work tomorrow and I am so nervous and have no idea how I am going to manage doing this alone. It is so infuriating knowing that we are the only first world country without even adequate workers rights including basic parental leave and health coverage. How do people manage in situations like this? I am so stressed out and overwhelmed and welcome any advice that I can get on how to manage taking care of a newborn (and myself) while my partner has be away from our family so that he can slave away to enrich his bosses.