{"id":10322,"date":"2017-01-05T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.music4friends.de\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:44:45","slug":"returning-after-parental-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/returning-after-parental-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning after parental leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:900px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd > .kt-row-column-wrap{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-row-layout-wrap.wp-block-kadence-rowlayout.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}.kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd > .kt-row-column-wrap{padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style><div class=\"kb-row-layout-wrap kb-row-layout-id10322_f68261-bd alignnone blog-inhalt wp-block-kadence-rowlayout\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-mobile-layout-row kt-row-valign-top\">\n<style>.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a, .kt-inside-inner-col > .kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a:not(.specificity){margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column10322_d20b1f-3a\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p><strong>After taking seven months of parental leave I&#8217;m now returning to my professional life. I&#8217;m looking forward to my old \/ new daily life in the agency. But let me share some of my memories with you for now.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parental leave &#8211; many opportunities and a shared decision&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news that we were expecting a baby in May 2016 was received by a burst of enthusiasm from &#8216;Mum&#8221; and &#8216;Dad&#8217; just as much as from grannies, uncles, cousins and friends! Yippi, we were going to be parents!!<br>Fortunately, it takes nine months, so we had enough time to prepare, to furnish, to buy (oh yeah!!) and to make plans for our future life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally, we were faced with the question of how much family leave we would want to take? Time to research: the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs published two whole books regarding parental allowance and it&#8217;s different programmes (more information:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmfsfj.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bmfsfj.de<\/a>). In different forums and blogs online we quickly realised that the most common way of going about parental leave: the mother taking all parental leave, the father only two months of so-called &#8216;dad leave&#8217;. Those two months are then typicially spent travelling together &#8211; sounds awesome, right?<br>The father wants more though, he wants the whole deal, the full-blown daily-routine with a baby! I loved the idea and was happy with our final decision: &#8220;Half and Half \/ 7 months you, 7 months me&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blogbeitra\u0308ge WebP\/Blogbeitr\u00e4ge_LQ\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/Galerie\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit_Galerie_2.webp\" alt=\"R\u00fcckkehr aus der Elternzeit in Deutschland, gl\u00fcckliche Familie bei der Arbeit.\" class=\"wp-image-5490\" style=\"width:317px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1096\" src=\"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blogbeitra\u0308ge WebP\/Blogbeitr\u00e4ge_MQ\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/Galerie\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit_Galerie_3.webp\" alt=\"R\u00fcckkehr aus der Elternzeit \u2013 gl\u00fcckliche Familie bei der Wiederaufnahme des Alltags.\" class=\"wp-image-6609\" style=\"width:317px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blogbeitra\u0308ge%20WebP\/Blogbeitr\u00e4ge_MQ\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/Galerie\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit_Galerie_3.webp 768w, https:\/\/music4friends.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blogbeitra\u0308ge%20WebP\/Blogbeitr\u00e4ge_MQ\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/Galerie\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit_Galerie_3-673x960.webp 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I look back on seven wonderful, exciting, cozy, sleepless and enamoured months with my gorgeous baby girl. We definitely made the best of our shared time &#8211; enjoying cozy times of confinement after childbirth, seeing friends and family, the first vacation, walks, walks, walks and our first christmas as a family. I could go on forever.<br>Now it&#8217;s time for daddy to take over and let him watch her grow and discover the world &#8211; what a wonderful task!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>So, I&#8217;m back!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello desk, hello laptop, hello lovely colleagues: I&#8217;m happy to be back! I need some time to re-adjust, so thank you for the opportunity to slowly up my working hours and allowing the three of us this time of transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Well, all right: Dear musicians, dear partners, dear clients, I look forward to you all!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we might possible see each other quite soon?<br>On 18 and 19 January 2017 I will be at our trade fair booth at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boe-messe.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best of Events<\/a> in Dortmund and I look forward to all those familiar faces.<br>We do have some guest tickets, so if you&#8217;re interested please email me at:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gesa@music4friends.de\">gesa@music4friends.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See you soon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gesa Niessen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blogbeitra\u0308ge WebP\/Blogbeitr\u00e4ge_LQ\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/Galerie\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit_Galerie_1.webp\" alt=\"Zur\u00fcck aus der Elternzeit: Gl\u00fcckliche Eltern mit Baby.\" class=\"wp-image-5489\" style=\"width:490px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you planning an event? I happily consult you and offer the matching act.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nach 7 Monaten Elternzeit geht es nun zur\u00fcck f\u00fcr mich ins Berufsleben. Ich freue mich auf meinen Wiedereinstieg und meinen alten \/ neuen Alltag in der Agentur. Aber lasst mich noch etwas in Erinnerung schwelgen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":274,"label":"People"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/music4friends.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blogbeitra\u0308ge WebP\/Blogbeitr\u00e4ge_HQ\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit\/Header\/zurueck-aus-der-elternzeit_Header_1.webp",768,494,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Kasimir Schn\u00f6lzer","author_link":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/author\/kasimir\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":274,"name":"People","slug":"people","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":274,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":274,"category_count":10,"category_description":"","cat_name":"People","category_nicename":"people","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10328,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions\/10328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music4friends.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}