The creator, Grace Beverley, explains her company TALA's progressive miscarriage policy, which was born from her own experience with 'invisible grief.' She details how employees who lose a pregnancy after 24 weeks are entitled to full maternity and paternity leave. She contrasts this with inadequate statutory leave, discusses the societal taboo and shame surrounding miscarriage, and argues for the necessity of such compassionate workplace policies.
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Grace 👏 Frickin’ 👏 Beverley !! TALA founder Grace Beverley opens up about how her own miscarriage shaped the policies within her company and why we need to take the shame away from these conversations.
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Transcript
Better twenty four weeks, if you lose your pregnancy at Tala, you can take a full maternity leave. You said that your miscarriage was like invisible grief. Mhmm. Because you're still showing up. You're still functioning. But no one knows that you were pregnant and it's just you have to continue. Yeah. And I I didn't talk about it until over a month later. Even since that point, we've made changes, for example, at Tala to actually introduce a miscarriage policy. After twenty four weeks, if you lose your pregnancy at Tala, you can take a full maternity leave. Wow. And same with full paternity leave. Wow. Because That's amazing. It's entirely unfair that you wouldn't get your baby. And then also you're expected to well, you didn't have that. So So here we go. Guess you're back to work. I I don't know tier stats off the top of my head. I think it's, like, one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage. It's a huge stat. And I mean, before November of last year, I think it was, there wasn't even statutory miscarriage leave. Like, unless you lost a baby after twenty four weeks, which is considered, like, essentially you've gone into labor past that point. Like, it's not even considered no much a miscarriage as a stillbirth past that point. At that point you get two weeks. Add into that the complication around even telling your employer you were thinking about having a baby in the first place better kind of going through this amount of pain and on top of that because it's so taboo. Like when something's taboo it carries shame. So what like why? Like why is there all this shame around the fact that you had a pregnancy and it didn't work out?