How many weeks were you when you finished work?

[eggsbenedict89]

Just that really...
I've worked out I will be 27 weeks and the thought of staying for another 3 months kills me!

39 weeks with first baby, 36 with second. Luckily I was overdue with both.

37 exactly with dc1, 39+6 with dc2 and 39+5 with dc3

39, 38, 38!

37.5 with both, longer commute and busy weekends with a toddler made the second time feel much harder

33... but that was because I gave birth early.

My replacement had already started and was really good so I had started using some of my saved holidays and was only working mornings. I was finding work (office job) exhausting. I'm pregnant again now and I can honestly say I don't know how I coped with work, I probably sleep 2-3 afternoons a week.

I finished at 32 weeks. Much earlier than most but to be honest I was feeling so crap, exhausted and tired all the time. I'd been off sick twice as my job was so stressful, and involved 8 hours a day on my feet and my boss never even did a risk assessment and treated us horribly. Would have liked to sick it out longer but no regrets at all. Wont be going back either. X

Omg! Ok I'll get back in my box...

With first 41.
With twins 36
With sixth 37.

(Gave birth early as in, was having contractions at work, child arrived that evening)

DD - 38, she was born at 41 weeks
DS - it was supposed to be 37 weeks (One week of annual leave) with a CS at 39 weeks but I ended up going off sick (not pregnancy related) at 33 weeks.

DC1 I was scheduled to leave at 38 but waters went at 37.5 so I left immediately and it kicked in on 37.6 - DC arrived at 38. DC2 I left at 36.5 wanting to give myself some time and he didn't rock up until 40.5!

I thought you could only take maternity leave from 29 weeks or is that just my profession?

I went at 34 weeks, but only because I was moving 200 miles away.

37 weeks, two of which were annual leave. DS was born at 37.2 it was a fairly active job where I was on my feet pretty much all day, I think it was the two weeks of me not doing anything that bored him out.

39 weeks - I would have left earlier but I needed the money

Finished at 37+2 but used AL to reduce to 4 days (Weds off so I only had two days of work at a time) from 33wks

38 weeks with DS, hopefully be the same this time too although my commute is longer so we'll see!

I went at 37.5 weeks last time (with the last half a week working from home). Think I'm going at 37.5 weeks again this time (am almost 33 weeks now). The end is in sight! It can't come soon enough though - I'm a London commuter with a 1.5 hour one way commute and South West Trains are currently buggered!

Oh, and DD1 came at 42 weeks so I had one week of sorting things out and relaxing and then 4 weeks of being ridiculously bored!

@Emeraude oooh I don't know?!
I just used the maternity calculator on the government site and it gave me my earliest possible date to start x

32 weeks, I would have stayed longer but I had accumulated Holidays that I would have lost if I didn't take them! So used them all up! Had baby at 39 weeks x

38 weeks

37 weeks with both.

I also thought 29 weeks was earliest.
Why do you want up to 15 weeks off before baby arrives? Do you have lots of health issues? If not maybe rethink as it is normally considered better to use maternity leave for when baby is here. I had nearly 5 weeks off before baby as both of mine were late and it was too much really, though with dc2 it was lovely to have the time with dc1.

My last day of work was 23rd of December as we close for Christmas. Maternity leave technically started on around the 7th of January he was born the 22nd of January

I finished at 36 weeks using annual leave. It was perfect, 4 weeks of chilling on the sofa before baby arrived!