Can see why ladies leave earlier for maternity...

[Lettie]

I worked til 36+2 but had used a fair amount of AL to drop my weeks down before that as I work in a hospital and the distance I was walking and manually moving patients etc with heavy machinery was really taking it out of me, do wish I could still be going in now for a few hours a day but enjoying the lie ins as like most of you not sleeping well at night. At the end of the day if this is your first baby, you'll never get this alone time again - so everyone keeps telling me and yet I just wish baby would come lol!

 

[redbear]

I finished as soon as i could! To be fair im a plumber and was told by the doctor i wouldn't be able to work until i could take maternity and would have to go on the sick but i did it... was hard tho lots of lifting kneeling and working in horrid conditions. xx

 

[Cazza]

I saved all my A/L as I just knew I was going to struggle wth sleep, Lupus & RA!!!

I'm now on 3 weeks of 2 working days a week then I have 4 weeks A/L until Mat Leave 1st January.