Parking privileges for pregnant women

[shootingstar]

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Proposal in NYC.

I've never heard it before. But I've never paid attention because I've never been pregnant.

However, at a construction site with decent parking lot, one pregnant woman (her first baby) requested that she park right against the main administrative building. I mean less than 10 ft. from the 2 step staircase with porch to get into our building.

She got the privilege or safety measure?? Actually she had to move car later in a few months, because a huge 6 ft. deep hole was being dug right in front of the building..(actually in front of my office) A bike ramp was being built.

How does this jive with my mother who had several children, pregnant at different times and had to do most of the housework anyway with my father away working full-time? And we were either in school or too young to help her do certain tasks? She did call upon her own children to do certain stuff --that were child appropriate tasks. We had a 2 storey house with basement.

I'm lost..