How many of you worked right up until delivery/due date?

RomeRomance06

This is sort of an informal poll. I submitted my maternity leave plan a few weeks ago to my company and they're cool with it. I've told them I plan to work right up to my due date, unless I deliver early, and I'm wondering how many of you were actually able to do that. Did you peter out at the very end and go on ML early? Or were you able to telecommute?

tomandcourt

I worked up until the day before J was born, but only because he was born at 37 weeks and was a surprise. My due date was a Tuesday, so my original plan was to start telecommuting the week before (ostensibly teleworking a full week plus a day if I had delivered on my due date). My office was fine with that idea.

Hey Jellisy

I worked up to the day DD and DS were born.  No problem physically, your brain is sort of mush, but by then you've usually transitioned all the things that matter.  I wanted to maximize time at home with the LOs and had no desire to cut into that time. 

DCtoLowcountry

I worked right up until I delivered. At 37 weeks I had a meeting with my supervisor and the people who would be covering portions of my portfolio to outline what needed to be done, and from there I did a summary email at the end of each day with the status of my activities. I had DS at 39 weeks.

Hope all is well with you as you enter the home stretch!

tracy042206

I was induced with Maggie and had a scheduled repeat c-section with Molly so both time I took off one day prior to get stuff together.

Artslvr

I worked in the office up to my due date, and telecommuted after my due date.  Both girls were five days late.  DS came at 39 weeks, and I worked a full day in the office the night he was born.

slukd79

I worked in the office up until my due date. Then it was a long holiday weekend and I was induced 2 days later. Emotionally I was just done when I hit my due date. Physically I was fine.

mssaint

My original plan was to work until my due date, but then I got put on bedrest at 32 weeks. They took me off at 35 weeks and I went back to work for a week. Then my water broke on Sunday night, somy leave started 4 weeks early. After I was put on bedrest, I got the ok to work from home 2 days a week until 38 weeks and then I was going to work from home full time until I hit 40 weeks. I kind of left my work in an awkward position as I hadn't finalized any transition planning but considering the situation everyone was very understanding.

claraj

I worked right up until my due date. I was due on a Monday. Left work on Friday night fully expecting to be at work ON my due date (I was convinced DD was going to be late). Instead, I went into labor on Sunday and delivered DD on my due date.

mek10976

I have two more days of teaching this week, then a c-section on Monday!

QueSrah

I worked a week past my due date, and took off the last two work days before my induction because I had almost nothing to do and was pretty uncomfortable by then.

vtkgirl77

I felt fine working right up until my due date. I went to work up until the actual day that I went into labor (however, I didn't go into labor until that night).

mommmyz

I taught right up until I delivered...I definitely spent a little more time sitting though! I worked Friday, went into labor Sunday night, had DS Monday morning. I was 39 weeks. I am so glad I worked right up to the end - would have driven myself crazy otherwise!

Sofka

worked on my due date, the day after, and the day after that, had DD 4 days past her due date on a Sunday

 

ak1234

I was scheduled for a c-section on Friday, and worked through Wednesday.

cookieinva

I worked past my due date until the day of my induction at 41 weeks. It was super hot in July and I was uncomfortable and possibly somewhat useless at work but I definitely didn't want to squander any leave without a baby around. Even with working, I felt bored like I was sitting around waiting...can't imagine how much worse that would've been if I wasn't working! Good luck!

Lion&Hokie

I had a scheduled C/S due to placenta previa with B - so I was able to go at 38 weeks (and worked up to the day before).

This one? Probably going at 39 weeks and unless something happens, working right up to it.

kellnbri

With DS I was teaching.  I was supposed to work until the 23rd of March...2 days before his due date.  Turns out the 16th I was in labor all day at work and didn't realize it, just thought I wasn't feeling well.  Came home, ordered pizza, DH was helping his sister with some work stuff while I sat in agony on the couch counting contractions.  He was born at 3am on the 17th of March....it was snowing when we drove to the hospital.  My parents had a foot of snow in NJ that night and couldn't make it here until Sunday. 

amh_navyblue

With DD#1, I was working from home part time as a freelance consultant, so that was pretty easy to do up until she decided to arrive, 6 days late.

With DD#2, I started telecommuting the week of my due date...and kept working until she was born, 10 days late...

LindseyJW

i worked M-F in the office, sometimes 10-11 hrs/day until i was 39 weeks with  tomas. then my boss kicked me out. i worked from home (but didn't really do much work) until 41 weeks. i can't honestly say that i did anything at all that last week (he wasn't born until almost 42 weeks). i REALLY enjoyed being home those last few weeks. i was super uncomfortable and getting dressed for work was the worst part of my day.

i worked 4 days a week in the office and WFH one day a week during my 3rd trimester with audrey. i WFH full time beginning at 37 weeks and didn't really work at all after 40 weeks. she was born at almost 42 weeks, too. i wasn't uncomfortable that time, but i really hated being in the office (but, i also hate my boss/office).

jess08200

I taught on Friday, and had DS on Saturday night.  Personally, I would have been bored if I didn't.

WinesNotWhines

My contractions started while I was at work, so I definitely worked right up until the end! In case you're worried about going into labor while at work, it wasn't a big deal at all. My early contractions were fairly mild, and I had no problem driving myself home.

zeptattoo

I worked until the day before my c/s, although my team teacher took that chapter to give me a chance to get paperwork done, etc.  HR made it clear that I could not go out on ML until the day Snuggle was born.

DoubleFlyaway

I tried to, but my BH started getting painful (they had long since been very frequent) at about 37 1/2 weeks. At 38w4d I gave up on trying to work (with my dr's support), and then I ended up having DD two days later. So I did make it close to the end, even though I thought I still had some time.

Mrs.Handy

I worked 5 days past my due date. I was due on a Monday the 12th and then made the following Friday the 16th my last day since I was so bored at work and I was tired of people asking me if I was still pregnant.

Physically I was fine, mentally I was going crazy wondering when I was going to go into labor.

I went into labor the Saturday evening the 17th and DS was born early Sunday morning.

It worked out wonderfully (perfect timing DS!). I was worried I was going to be sitting home the following week using up vacation time. 

Jitterbug2668

at 37 weeks I was already 5cm dialated so that week after my OB appt, I decided then was a good time.  I was just shy of 39 weeks when I was INDUCED.  I sat on my behind at home for 2 weeks nesting thinking I could pop any minute but didn't.  I work 60 some miles from the hospital I was scheduled to deliver at so I was worried I wouldn't make it home, had my water broken at work. 

kirnat848

I worked up until the day before with both DD1 & DD2 but with DD3 I was just so exhausted that I couldn't so I stopped working about a week before she was born.

Gigs2000

With DS, I was planning to head into the office after a morning dr. appt. but was told to head to the hospital instead.

With DD, I had a Monday induction scheduled but worked the full week before.

As PP said, your brain isn't really with it but may as well not tap into maternity leave if you don't need to do it.

Amy&Steve0421

I was able to telecommute and literaly worked until labor started.  If you can get a telecommuting deal - I highly recommend it!

RomeRomance06

Well, you ladies are certainly a bunch of workaholics! I do want to conserve as much of my PTO and partially paid maternity leave as possible, so I will probably try and work up to my due date unless I'm physically unable to make it into work and telecommute afterwards, just in case. I think I would go crazy just waiting around for labor to start but I would be kind of paranoid about going into labor at work too. Thanks for the input!

kbalb

Originally, I asked for the week before my due date off (she was due on a Sunday), but during the check up the Thursday before, I was not dilating at all, so I decided to work that week.  I then had off starting the day after I was due.  I went to the doctor's that day and was slowing losing water.  I was induced that Wednesday.

 I was completely fine, but definitely didn't take on any long-term or big projects the three weeks before my due date, just in case.

shellindcwife

zeptattoo:

I worked until the day before my c/s, although my team teacher took that chapter to give me a chance to get paperwork done, etc.  HR made it clear that I could not go out on ML until the day Snuggle was born.

What system do you work for?

membrn

I worked up to the weekend before my induction.  I was supposed to work the weekend but they wrote me out for it.  I did, however, switch to 8 hour shifts (instead of 12s) by around 34 weeks or so.