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Maternity Leave - Torn, Time Before or After!

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  • I'm lucky in that MIL has the kids on the days that I work, I only do three days a week. Otherwise, I would be using the childminder who lives over the road from me,

  • Just realised I called you Dumblesquad lol!  Sorry ;)  

  • I would go for time off after the birth.  When I had Molly I was working long hours in a stressful desk job, I worked up to the Friday in my 37th week and gave birth the following Tuesday!!!  I only had five months to take in total though so to me that was the best way to do it and I do not regret it for a minute.  Could you work reduced hours in the lead up to your maternity leave?

  • You still accrue annual leave during your time on maternity leave. I finished work at 36 weeks - I had a couple of weeks leave to take, then started ML. Baby arrived at 40+10 so I had off quite a long period before hand, although obviously you can't control when the baby will turn up. Our leave year ran from April to March and I stopped working at the beginning of March, used up my AL for that year. I had a year off work which took me to nearly the end of the next leave year. I thought they'd pay me for it, but they had a policy of not doing this, so I returned to work having 4 weeks leave. I'd already arranged nursery care for my daughter so she started (part time) and I had some time off at the end. It was accidental but worked really well. And by that stage she had gone through a clingy only wanting mummy phase and I was quite pleased to have a bit of a break (although I did feel bad about that too).

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