If, however, your spouse is also a faculty member, the system remains the same. The new child creates two course releases, but parents now want/need four. So, either each parent takes one course release (and teaches only one course) or one parent takes them both and the other takes zero.
As I understood our leave, we have a very peculiar leave system. A new child creates two course releases. We teach 3-2, so that the way it works out is that you can take a semester of paid leave when you have a new child.
If you're making art with something to "get," it's worth considering whether people will actually get it. But I think much of the value in art lies in its potential to build our capacity to understand ourselves, other people, and the world around us. The ways it can encourage us to reach.