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I worked until 39+4 which was the day before thanksgiving. It seemed like a logical time to stop...but then LO didn't show until I was 40+6 when I was induced. I was ready to be done working but in retrospect I was bored, impatient and anxious waiting for her to show up!

I stopped working about two hours before going to the hospital!

I had an unexpected induction at 38 weeks though. I had had an ultrasound earlier that day, and my doctor called just as I was leaving work to ask me to go to the hospital based on the results of the ultrasound.

I only worked until I was about 6 months pregnant. I was going to school full-time and working part-time in retail where I was on my feet constantly. I had left my job and then just focused on school after that.

I was supposed to work until the Friday before my scheduled c-section, which was due to baby being breech. I ended up having her a week before the scheduled section. I worked that Monday and had her Tuesday.

I went to work on the morning I delivered! I don't recommend it though! It wasn't fun.

I worked til I went into labor at 39+5.

I finished up at 36 weeks but I'm in New Zealand and I had a year of maternity leave plus a stack of annual leave to use. In the end I was really pleased to finish up when I did because LO flipped herself breech, I started to swell and my platelets started to drop which my MW suspected was due to work-related stress.

I worked until 38+5, DS was born just 5 days later.

It's interesting here in Austria. Women are required by law to stop working 1 month before their EDD. They also get 12 months of maternity leave.

I worked until 36 weeks exactly and was induced that night. I would have worked until I went into labor had things gone differently.

Until I went into labor. I wasn't about to waste any of my precious time off on just myself, so I kept working until the Friday past my due date.

I was supposed to work until my due date, ended up scheduling an induction for 39 weeks, stopped working at 38, then water broke at 38+4

I worked in the office until 38.5 weeks, then worked from home - I was still emailing wrapping things up in early labor!

I was planning to work up until I went into labor. I made my lunch made for Monday, laptop by the door when my water broke on Sunday night.

I worked until the Tuesday before my Monday induction. I stopped because I was uncomfortable and because I ran out of projects that I could complete before I left. Also, my boss kept asking me "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be having a baby?"

With #1, my last day was my due date. With #2, I believe it was 38+2. It was a week before my scheduled csection.

@stine_ciro: I worked til the very end which was 40 weeks and 4 days. I wanted to save all my days off til the baby was born

With DD (my first) I worked past my duedate, but stopped at 40 weeks 1 day, and was induced at 40 weeks 6 days.

With DS I was going to work up until my c-section was scheduled, but my water broke early, so I had worked the day he was born!

I worked two days past my due date and LO came 3 days later. I was planning on working until she came but I had finished everything up and was bored!