Any NHS HCA's?

[mummy2freddybear]

Just wondering how many weeks did you work up till?

I work on a busy elderly medicine ward, working with some quite challenging behaviour with some quite aggressive dementia patients and it can be very physical with moving and handling. I'm planning on taking 3 weeks annual leave from 37 weeks and then starting my maternity leave the day before my due date

Not a HCA but I do work on a ward clinically. You should have a risk assessment to make sure your duties are safe for you and your bump, so you could be risk assessed to a less risky patient group or less physical duties, more rest breaks etc.
I managed to work until 38 weeks then saved up 2 weeks of annual leave to take and so mat leave started bang on my due date (baby born the day before!)

Thank you 😊

I've been off sick for almost a month now with really bad morning sickness (12 weeks now) I've another two weeks off (A/L) but when I go back I'll speak to my manager about a risk assessment 😊

I'd like to work as long as possible so I can have more time off with the baby as I want to breast feed as long as possible.

In my last pregnancy I really struggled with hip pain so I will have to see how I go