Working Mums:What is your EDD and when are you starting ML?
Feb 20, 2015 18:11:18 GMT -5
Post by leenziepops on Feb 20, 2015 18:11:18 GMT -5
Hi ladies, my boss's boss called asking me if I could narrow down my date for the start of my maternity leave. Until this point, I had just been saying late May. So I told him today May 22nd and my EDD is June 10th giving me 2.5 weeks should things go according to plan. I advised that this is tentative with possibilities of that date shifting earlier.
I am curious now, what is your ML start date and your EDD?
ST+M that worked during pregnancy, please weigh in with opinions/advice.
I plan on working right up to the bitter end - but I am likely going to have a scheduled repeat C/S with all the nugget drama going on.
That said - with my first, I was due July 6th... The Friday after Independence Day! I planned on working until the end, and I got close. Our office was closed for the holiday, and we had a big deadline that week. So I finished my work, and all the team had to do was print and send to the client after the holiday.
So I worked Tuesday, (3rd) and said "Ladies, I think I'm calling it quits... I'm donzo. It's Fucking hot, I'm tired, and I just want to lay down for a day or two before baby comes" And they were 100% cool with that.... well the universe laughed at me, and I went a full week overdue.
We were basically 99.9% prepared for baby to come at any minute, and so all I did for a week was lay on the couch watching bad TV and eating. It was glorious for the first couple days. Then I got bored.
Then I got mad that I was wasting precious PTO that I could be using for my REAL maternity leave of 12 weeks after baby was born! My ML didn't kick in until the day baby was born, so although it was nice technically taking 13 weeks off, I was mad because it took away that paid time with baby and I ended up having more unpaid time at the end because I really wanted to take my full 12 weeks with baby.
That said, if you end up having baby early (less likely, but totally possible) then no worries. But 2.5 weeks is a lot to me...
Yup 2.5 weeks. I mentioned a bit later that I am taking 12 months ML so I do have that flexibility to start a bit earlier. It's pretty common in Australia to take 2 weeks off or more prior to EDD.