[pmkiwi]

In NZ, my wife took 6 months of parental leave (with a huge drop of salary...) and I took 2 weeks* (one unpaid and one paid by my company). So yeah, I did not take anything else because our mortgage is not going to repay itself and the pragmatic move was that I continue working.

Note*: in NZ, the partner is allowed 2 week unpaid if you are in your current job for more than 12 months, 1 week if you are in your job between 6 and 12, and 0 if you just join a new company. And it does not matter if you have been paying taxes and working several years before that. Silly system really.

At the same time, I WFH the full time so I was there for almost everything and my kid started to have full nights straight away so it was not that bad :).