How late did you or are you planning to leave for maternity

[Evianbaby15]

as the title says really
If you stayed/plan on staying for as long as possible what kind of job do you have?
I am only part time but spend day on my feet, not sure how late I'm going to be able to go
(Have a dc already so staying at home to relax 2 weeks beforehand is all well and good but I won't be relaxing)

Finished at 39 +3 had baby 6 hours after leaving work. Completely regret not having some me time. Planned to finish at 36 weeks with number 2 but she came at 34 weeks.

I'm 33+5 now and have annual leave booked from 37 weeks and maternity booked from 39 weeks.

But have had several complications in the last week or so and may end up delivering early, in which case the maternity leave will kick in earlier. I won't lose my holidays though as they'll let me carry it over.

I'm a social worker so office work and visits. But I do a LOT of driving and am no longer allowed to drive so my last couple of weeks are admin only from home - my files will be perfection!!

If you take a look at the return to work thread and legal matters you'll get a fair idea of how many people want to change their job/hours or are made redundant during maternity leave. It's pretty stressful if the most recent "achievement" you can list is being dressed before noon

I work 3 days a week in an office job and have an almost 2 year old at home, and will be finishing at 35 weeks (5 weeks time woohoo!). Dh is a teacher so will be off work for the first three weeks of mat leave on summer holidays, and we thought it'd be lovely to have a few weeks with just the three of us before it all changes again.

Personally, by this point (30 weeks) I've pretty much lost all interest in work and just want my baby, and am really looking forward to having some time off to enjoy with my son.

I've already got an agreement from my new boss (we've just been through a significant restructuring so there are unlikely to be further redundancies any time soon...they need someone left to do the work!) to my returning to part-time hours next year; childcare is all booked and deposit paid up...nothing like being prepared! Sadly, I don't have the luxury of being able to consider returning to even fewer hours or a lower paid job as much as I may desperately want to in a year's time!

Will just have to cross my fingers and hope that I'm too critical to the future success of the organisation to be made redundant...

I'm 27w with my first and at the moment I'm planning to go off at 38w.

I work mainly in an office less than 10 minutes from home, and although I normally travel around a bit too I'm cutting that back now for the summer.

My mat leave will officially start on 1st October which is 39 weeks but I want my salary to be paid until the end of September. I'm then using annual leave to take an extra week off before. I still have a further 8 days holiday left over however ours rolls over to next year for those on maternity leave so it won't hurt if I don't use it.

Im stopping at 32 wks which seems early but work with horses so really limited as to what i will be able to do but worried Im going to get bored :(

I planned to work until my due date with DS. Waters went at 37+1 on a day I was due in work (I was lucky I wasn't on the train when my waters went) and had to do a conference call in the car on the way to hospital. I don't recommend it.

This time I'm working until 36 weeks and the last four of those are at home.

I do an office job, mostly sitting down although some training delivery which is on my feet.

Full time desk job, complicated pregnancy. Last day was 39+1 but spent most of that day in hospital after a routine midwife appointment, made it back to work for 5pm to receive my presentation and gifts :) In triage and admitted to hospital 7am very next day, gave birth at 39+6. Glad I worked that long for financial reasons but it was hard. I finished my very physical Saturday volunteer job at 30 weeks and couldn't have gone a day longer.