Inside the movement for paid time off to have a baby — in Utah and beyond

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — After giving birth to her daughter River in April, Kelsey Hixson-Bowles began a quick countdown from 10 — the number of paid days she could take off work.Hixson-Bowles, 27, scraped together another five days by cashing in the few paid sick and vacation hours she'd managed to accrue since accepting a position at Utah Valley University last February.When River was a month old, Hixson-Bowles was working full-time from home and a few weeks after that, was back in the