Maternity leave - when do/did you start?

[Naetha]

Apologies for another straw-poll question, I'm just interested to see when people are intending to or have started their maternity leave and their reasons for it, and whether they're intending on doing the same again?

Thanks!

Last time at 35weeks as

A) It was christmas took the last of my holiday between christmas and new year.

B) Couldn't fit behind the steering wheel any more.

With DS I intended to stop at about 36 weeks but ended up stopping at 34 weeks due to high bloodpressure etc.

With DD I stopped at 32 weeks - much better .

I finished work at 36 weeks - 2 weeks a/l then started maternity leave at 38 weeks. Baby arrived at 41 weeks, so was quite bored, but tbh I was useless at work after about 32 weeks - distracted, uncomfortable etc, but wanted to leave it as late as possible to get maximum time with ds after the birth.