Concepion...fixed term contract

[diseydaly]

Hi there.

I wonder if anyone can help me calculate the latest date i can fall pregnant. For some reason everyone i ask gets a different date for this.

I have a fixed term nhs contract which ends on 21st may 2019. My contract says if my contract finishes after 11 weeks the week my baby would be due then my contract will be extended to cover my mat pay.

So i get...

By 21st may i need to be 29 weeks pregnant...im saying by 13th may as there was something about full weeks. So if i count back 29 weeks from 13th may is 22 oct....so am i right in saying i need to be pregnant before 22 october?

What you've written doesn't make grammatical sense: 'after 11 weeks the week my baby would be due'? Is that 11 weeks after the baby would be due?

Yeah i see what mean...i was losing the will by this point.

It says

If your contract is due to end after 11th week BEFORE edc then your contract will be extended.

Anyone?

I calculate that as by 29th May you need to be no less than 11 weeks left till due date. Based on a 40 week pregnancy calculation would mean 11 weeks before 29/5/19 is 13/3/19... so 29 weeks before that date is 22nd August 2018.
So surely you'd need to get pregnant on the cycle commencing 22nd august at the latest?

Xoxox

No wait.... it'd be 11 weeks after the 29th May 2019... so surely the latest would the the cycle commencing 7/11/18 latest?
Im not a maths person lol! I would say to be 11 weeks away from your due date would be 29/5/19 + 11 weeks and then 40 weeks before that so would be 7/11/18! :)

Xoxox

Thanks so much this has been driving me crazy. everyone I've asked has given me different answers and i really dont want to chance not getting mat pay x

@diseydaly

I disagree and have done a double check. There is a really handy excel document here www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/during/family/maternity/ called maternity leave dates calculator. It's used by these people's HR teams to calculate dates, so I've run it with your dates.

If you put in an estimated due date of 4th August (so due w/c 4th -10th August) then 11 weeks before is 19th May (you have to count from the Sunday before your edd). This puts your qualifying week (25 weeks pregnant) as w/c 21st April.

So, based on 19th May....if the first day of your last period is 27th October (and a standard 28 day cycle) then your estimated due date is 3rd August 2019.

So you need to have your last period before 27th October. Tbh this could be cutting it a bit fine in case they change your dates at the scan. In my case the sonographer says I'm 5 days further along than I think I am. I know when I conceived (we hadnt had any other sex around those dates as we weren't actually trying and it was a contraception failure) and I know when my last period was and her dates meant that I conceived when I'd actually had an injury and was in hospital so I remember that day well. Nonetheless she wouldn't change the dates so my estimated due date is 5 days later than it should be. Dates can also change depending on your cycle length.

Personally speaking I would have a mental date in my head of needing to have had the first day of my last period by 20th October to qualify for their extension.

Mavericksnoopy

Thanks so much for going to all that effort.

Im normally spot on with my period and should start them 11th october so that should work out ok.

No problem at all - I used to work in HR and so have a bit of insight. I have also had to be meticulous about mat leave plans/dates myself in the past so I know how important it feels. Good luck TTC.

Thanks. I was due on halloween so didn't need to worry about my contract but miscarried. I should be redeployed into another role but better to be safe than sorry.