Maternity Leave - Help when?
Hi Ladies,
Can you tell me when you started your mat leave, or intend to?
I am in a pickle whether to leave at the suggested 29 wks on 28th Nov or work longer till xmas...?
I work in an office but I am up and down all day and not that comfy at my desk already.
I also work 40 hrs a wk.
I have to tell my boss by 30th Oct, and i really dont know what to do?
Em 22+5
Can you tell me when you started your mat leave, or intend to?
I am in a pickle whether to leave at the suggested 29 wks on 28th Nov or work longer till xmas...?
I work in an office but I am up and down all day and not that comfy at my desk already.
I also work 40 hrs a wk.
I have to tell my boss by 30th Oct, and i really dont know what to do?
Em 22+5
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With my first I left when I was 38 weeks as I wanted as much time off after he was born... I actually had him when I was 40+13 so I could've left later...
I did find it exhausting in the later weeks but knew I couldn't leave him when he was so young to go back to work...
I was supposed to go back in April but found out I was pregnant again in March, so resigned... I don't think I would've been able to cope as long this time as at 30+2 which I am now, i'm the same size as I was with first lo at full term...
You just have to play it by ear... Will you be going back to work after your babies are here or will be a full time mummy?
Sara x
sarah
I am going to try to be a full-time mummy - However this scares me too?!
I have used my holidays days (what I had left), to take the next 5 Fridays off, so only got to do 4 day weeks for a while.
I think 30 wks would be good as it would mean ileave 5th Dec, so I have time to prepare for xmas and the xmas party's, lol.
But i still dont know...?x
Mummy to Luke 14 months and Max and Milo 4 1/2 weeks.
I replied to this yesterday but obviously did not post.
I like you hmm'd and aaah'd about what to do and ended up deciding on 28 weeks - as it turned out I have been signed off work since 21 weeks (and only work 25 hours per week)
entirely upto you but especially as you are not going back (likewise) then i would stay ay 29 weeks maternity
I am really suffering in last week and only 25+4 weeks