Maternity leave for the self employed

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I am self employed, set up as a sole trader. I am a consultant, mostly working from home. I charge an hourly rate to a range of clients for my services.

I am now 3 months pregnant.

I understand that I can claim SMA, however I am curious to know if anyone can advise on the 'keeping in touch' days.

These will be invaluable to me for maintaining relationships with my clients, but I cannot find anything that can define how long a day is.
How are 'keeping in touch' days monitored for the self employed?
Could I could 10 hours of work as 1 day?
Does anyone have any experience like this?

It's literally 10 "days", hours aren't specified. If you did one hour it would count as one day, if you did 23 hours it would count as one day

IME, they aren't monitored. If you kept records of which days you worked and on what, I reckon that would be fine in case you did become the lucky one to be audited.

Awesome, thanks guys.