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I haven't had a LO yet, but I'm about 20 weeks pregnant. It's my greatest hope to go to my due date because it's the day that winter break starts in the school system I work in. Then I wouldn't have to start maternity leave until after that break so I would be getting almost 14 weeks instead of 12!
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I really want to maximize my time with my baby, so I don't want to "waste" a week or two waiting around to go into labor.
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@ElbieKay: I had that same fear/worry. In the end though I was starting to get miserable and DH really wanted me to rest. I went 5 days late and I was grateful for the stress free days I had to enjoy the final moments of pregnancy and get ready for baby. I only had 10 weeks of maternity leave total.
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I plan on working until I pop.
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I stopped at 38 weeks but went into labor at 39 weeks. I wish had stopped at 37 weeks
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I packed it in 2 weeks before my due date. But I had saved up vacation time for the end of my pregnancy, and then we get one year maternity leave here, so it was time I would have had to take at some point.
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I worked until 37w5d. I gave birth at 38w5d.
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I worked until I went into labor at 39 weeks. I would have worked until I went into labor even if it was past my due date.
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I worked until I went into labor at 38w3d. Wasn't expecting to go early. I worked on a Friday and had my son on a Sunday.
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My due date was Monday, June 17 and I worked until Friday, June 14. I was induced on Monday, June 24 and LO was born on Tuesday, June 25.
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I was scheduled to be induced on a Saturday and when I told my department head he told me to take the Thursday and Friday prior to induction.
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I worked up until I gave birth - literally!
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I was going to work up until 38.5 weeks, but finished at 37.5 instead, because I just didn't have the energy/patience to be there any longer.
That being said, it would be a MUCH different story if I didn't have a year for maternity leave. -
My plan is to work until Sept. 30 (39+3) and then take off until January. We'll see what happens! Thankfully I will be banking comp time so hopefully I can use the comp for the first four days of October and then dip into my vacation/sick time.
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I planned to work until my due date... I worked until the day before I gave birth but I went into labor 4 weeks early.
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I was due on May 29th. I worked until May 31st. 2 days past my due date. I was nervous about how work would respond when I asked to work past my due date, but I knew in my heart baby wasn't coming until late. Work was very understanding and agreed to me working 2 days past my due date. Technically, they said they couldn't make me take leave earlier, they had to do whatever I wanted. In the end baby didn't come until June 12th. So I still wasted a week and a half waiting for baby to come.
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Lo is due this month so technically things could change at any moment but I scheduled the week before our EDD off which technically is only 4 days before the date. Which only leaves me with 3 weeks left of work!!!
I really want to save as much time as I can for when she is here.
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I planned to work until I went into labor. My last day ended up being the Friday before I gave birth on Sunday. I thought baby would be late since it was my first and I had no progress leading up to labor, but she came 5 days before her due date. I planned to continue to work even if she came late so I didn't use up too much maternity leave with no baby.
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I'm 39 weeks now. My last day is this tomorrow. I was hoping to go up to my due date but decided I was over it. Plus I'm sick now. No fun.need to rest.
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I went into labor a week early, but worked up to that day, and would have kept working if she had been any later
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