When did you start maternity leave?

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I get 6 months of for maternity leave where I work. (Lucky I know) Im 38 weeks now and hoping my dr will let me start maternity leave a few days before my due date. I work rotating 12s and the week of my due date I will be working nights. Ughhhh..... Can I request to start my leave early? Assuming I don’t have my baby by then. Has anyone did this? I’m new to it all and don’t know how it works.

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I wouldnt, its less time you get once the baby is here. As hard as it is waiting, its harder to leave them to go back

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You can start it early however I wouldn’t. I got 12 weeks and worked until the day I had her. I’m a teacher worked all day and went to hospital at 8pm. Sucks right now but will be totally worth it later. The only exception I would make is if you’re being induced and you took off starting Monday of that week and had an end date soon. You don’t want to take off now and then go to 42 weeks. Then you’ve wasted all that time without your baby.

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I took mine the day I went in to labor at 40 weeks 5 days. It honestly depends on your company policies so you’ll probably want to call your employee services/hr and ask them to be sure. My work asked if I wanted to start it on my due date but I said no. I wanted all the time possible home with the baby recovering.

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I’ve never been through this, so my thoughts are just thoughts. I can’t even imagine working 12 hours shifts 9 months pregnant.....not even a little. But I imagine come 6 months when you have to go back to work, you’ll be asking for those extra days you took before that sweet little babe made their arrival.

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