When to stop travelling for work?

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Hi everyone!

Would love to know everyone's thoughts about when it's sensible to stop travelling to see clients for work. I'm due 6th April and live out in the countryside, but have lots of clients in London.

To go and see them, it's a 1.5 hour train with 30-60 mins either side, so realistically a 3+ hour each way.

I have clients trying to book in meetings for Feb and March but don't know when is reasonable / sensible to put as a cut off and say that I can't travel?

Would love to know what you did!

Thanks!

I suppose it all depends on how you feel and how your pregnancy is going. I would probably stop around the time your are full term so could go into labour at any point. So around 37 weeks/mid March.
Congratulations on your pregnancy

Much better to make the cut off earlier and adjust everyone’s expectations. I’d say mid-Feb.

If you arrange stuff for later on and it’s too hard, they’ll be upset. If they know in advance it’s fine.

Worst case is you don’t travel when you might have felt okay, which is better than travelling when you don’t because you’d committed.

35 weeks ish. Mainly because it became so bloody uncomfortable to travel for 3 hours!

My business travel was always international and I flew until 30 weeks.
I am still travelling to any/all UK meetings by road and train at 36 weeks (albeit very uncomfortable)

I currently commute 2 hours each way. Planning to stop at 30ish weeks and maybe do a day a week as needed. I didn’t dawn on my at all with my first that I could go into labour early (I was working until 38 weeks but going away to my parents house 3+ hours away until my due date) and I am quite scared about it this time!

I'm 35 weeks. For me, sitting on a train is fine. Sitting in a station is fine. Standing for more than about 10 mins is not fine. If I walk for more than 10-15 mins I need a wee! So, I think it depends on what the journeys are like and how much walking and standing around there is.