AIBU to try to renegotiate KIT days

[MamaSleep]

Hello. I’m after some advice on KIT days.

I am currently on MAT leave and have a series of 8 2-3 hour meetings I want to attend before my return.

My Line Manager agreed I could let these meetings add up to 2 KIT days, however I have just read the following on Maternity Action’s Website:

You can use a KIT/SPLIT day to keep up to date with what has been happening in your workplace while you have been on leave; to attend a training course or staff meeting; to complete a project or to help you settle back into work gradually at the end of your maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.
Even if you only work for part of a day or a couple of hours it will still use up one of your KIT/SPLIT days.

Am I being unreasonable if I go back to my Line Manager and ask if I can use the meetings as individual KIT days rather than adding them together?

I know I should have researched first but… FTM and was slightly overwhelmed in earlier months.

Appreciate any thoughts/advice/experience.

AIBU - you have agreed, leave it.
YANBU - worth asking the question

Yes - this is indeed now the plan :)

interesting about the 20 being in addition to the 10 - I’ll look into it

We did shared parental after maternity so I got all my KIt days and Split days, and my husband got all his split days too. It worked out really well for us. I’d encourage every father to take leave and have sole charge of the baby for a while. It gives them a great understanding of what’s it’s like for us and ensures they are completely capable going forward in terms of all the organisational prep like packing bags for days out etc! It’s meant we do a proper 50/50 mix now of childcare and housework and our lives feel pretty easy with no resentment!