Don't know if this is the right place to post, but thought I'd see if anyone can advise me. I was signed off work in Nov 09 with SPD in pregnancy and submitted a signing off line to work to commence with their date of early mat leave for me which was 11th Jan. I had intended to potentially not go back to work until maybe August time. However, I have just had my child 3 weeks ago and my died dad 2 weeks ago. I feel emotional enough about having the baby and pile on top of that the fact that my dad died and that my SPD is still here and have been advised by my physio that it may take me many months to recover.
Someone has said to me that I should signed off sick from work again, mentioning that I will of course get full pay and that this is better than going onto SMP. I have no clue about any of this and I certainly don't want to be 'cheating the system'.
Does anyone have any comments on this or advice on what I should do. My instinct tells me to wait and see when I think I might be Ok to return to work - but will this be too late then if it ends up that I am actually still immobile etc?