Some women choose to take maternity leave and return to work relatively soon after the birth of their child, either through financial necessity or from choice.(BNC)
I shall be on maternity leave from the end of December and plan to return to the editor's chair in the summer. (BNC)
At the meeting, she was told that the store had coped without her during her maternity leave and to cut costs she was now being made redundant. (BNC)