Interviewer: How did you decide when to go back to work?
Participant: Honestly, it wasn't really my decision. My manager kept emailing during leave like nothing had changed, so I felt like I had to come back early just to keep my role.
Matches an existing code in your codebook — used in 4 other excerpts.
Interviewer: Who helped you most during the first few months?
Participant: My partner really stepped up — he adjusted his own schedule so we could split the nights, which took a lot of pressure off me.
New label, but close to an existing code — worth checking before it fragments your codebook.
Interviewer: Was there anything about the leave policy itself that surprised you?
Participant: Not really — I mostly just talked it through with my sister, who went through the same thing a year earlier.
Off-topic relative to the research question — a case for rejecting rather than approving or merging.
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