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I strongly recommend taking the short term disability leave and stop working 2 weeks prior to due date. I stopped traveling at 30 weeks (didn’t miss anything client wise, just (thankfully) worked out). I have been WFH most of the time but started getting winded while sitting and speaking in my last couple of months so a sit stand desk is critical!
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Very much agree with EY2. California presumes disability 4 weeks before the due date (also use it or lose it and doesn’t cut into postpartum disability or bonding), and the midwives I talked to strongly recommended taking it or taking 2 weeks off at the very least. Now very glad I did. Like EY2, I found the prep time really useful, and ended up so exhausted by 38 weeks I would’ve been all but useless at work anyway.
I requested to WFH after 36 weeks. I was swollen, uncomfortable, needed to pee all the time, etc.
I’ve always done 1-2 weeks prior but I felt pretty good through my pregnancies.
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They say 36 weeks is full term, so I requested it then. Didn’t want to go into labor at the office or during the commute lol
I’m currently 36 weeks and I could not imagine going in to the office! I’m so uncomfortable, having Braxton hicks and cramping. I no longer walk, I waddle. I last went in at 34 weeks and told everyone that was my in person farewell. I got stuck in 1.5 hrs of traffic on the drive home and almost peed myself. So that really did it in for me lol