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I stopped 4 weeks before, mainly because my wife went into labor 4 weeks early the night I got home.
I would plan on shutting travel down 6 weeks before due date- kids don’t really work in your schedule and it’s not something you want to miss, especially if this is your first.
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Stop right now. I’m serious. My wife gave birth to our second 12 weeks prematurely. She made it like one week into the third trimester. We had no indication that anything was amiss until contractions started. If LEK was a travel firm, that would have been disastrous for us. Don’t travel.
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6 weeks before the due date, but I was really sweating when traveling leading up to that deadline too.
I would stop now.
My son was born in week 37 but we had a whole slew of extra doctor visits between weeks 30-37.
Is she alone at home ? Then I would stop traveling right now. If she has family who can step up when you are away then you can go on for little bit longer
I did a trip 3 months out and was done. Didn’t travel again till baby was 6 months old.
I took my last trip 4 weeks out from due date. Baby came a couple days later after I got home. I did my first next travel ~6 weeks later.
I think minimum 6 weeks before the delivery - I feel way too nervous traveling throughout the pregnancy tbh but it's especially important to be around at the 6 week mark
My wife is due in 3 weeks and just got off a week of travel. Obviously, I would want to be there for birth, but if kiddo came months early, such is life. My friends with kids who spent lots of time in NICO continued to work since not much they could do
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Yeah I worked for 8 out of the 10 weeks my second was in the NICU, still think that if I was out of town for work at birth, it would have made a (diagnosed) traumatic experience even worse for my wife
I stopped 3 weeks out but it was clear to all my leaders and team that if anything happened I’d be on the next plane. Was lucky at the time that I was only ~2-3 hours away.
Thank you all super helpful
It depends. If my mother-in-law is with her, I stop traveling for work a month before her due date. If she's alone, around one and a half month prior.
6 weeks unless it’s a really critical trip for which I did a day or two. No travel within 4 weeks