I wish my OB had these attitudes. She won't even suggest time off to me and seems really pro work.

❤

❤ Thank you Kathy!

Literally crying watching this at 28 weeks with no idea how I’m going to continue for another 10 weeks until 38 weeks gestation in a job where I’m required to travel on the road and stay at motels extensively. Staying on due to maternity leave requirements. If I go to part time now they wouldn’t pay me my full time wage during may leave either.

I’m 28 weeks today..I’m very stressed at work and home..and to top it off my job is very physical. 40 hours a week. Even with restrictions it’s a lot of walking, lifting, and bending. My stomach even hurts when I sit. I want to throw in the towel but I’m worried about finances since I’m the bread winner in the marriage.

Very helpful! I'm at 20 weeks and I've been utterly exhausted since week 6ish. It's good to know quitting work "early" is acceptable. Thank you.

I'm 33 weeks and 3 days right now and I work part time but my job doesn't give me breaks, and doesn't let me sit. Yes I know this is not legal but I've been in so much pain and been getting so bullied at work for being pregnant that I'm to the point of going on maternity leave earlier than 38 weeks.

I am currently pregnant with baby number 3. I am a dog groomer work on my feet all day with no brakes. With my first baby I worked until 39 weeks and 38 with my second. This time around am done at 34 week am just so much more tried this time around and honestly wish I could have been done weeks ago. I honestly just think it depends on the pregnancy.

I hope this vid continues to speak to women in years and years to come because it was very helpful to me. I didn't know about the correlations during the why stop work at 28 weeks. It was all so good. Thanks so much!

Thanks for this wonderful video, somewhere we all know that we are pushing things beyond our capability but still need someone else to tell us and explain this for us to undetstand! Thank you

I think it depends on your pregnancy. Some women feel sick through their entire pregnancy. But they say pregnancy is not a sickness. Pregnancy is different with every woman.

I wish I could stop before I deliver but any time I take before counts against my very brief job protected leave (12 weeks max, unpaid, and I have to exhaust all of my accrued time off and return with 0 days off, I have no idea what I’ll do if baby gets sick). There is so much pressure to work up to the moment you deliver and return to work ASAP. The social pressure to ignore your body’s needs is immense. The stress is huge and the anxiety about returning to work so soon is heavy. It is inhumane. Hearing this makes me feel so much better ❤

I work in an extremely physical job, as a circulating nurse in a trauma operating room. I’m 32 weeks, I’m so exhausted and tired of lifting, bending squatting. My work has not taken it easy on me, sometimes I’m the only nurse left with surgeries at the end of a 12 hour day. I don’t know what to do because Fmla/std says you MUST have a doctors note to stop work early. I contacted my doctor and they think it’s too early to leave because therefore I won’t have enough time off after the baby. I am just so discouraged, aggravated and annoyed at how women are treated. The normal pregnancy symptoms & changed in our bodies is a good enough reason to need off before you go into labor. I can’t stand the norms around working until the very last second. I’m unsure where to go from here, I can’t stop completely I need insurance, If I go part time I’ll get paid part time when I’m gone and it just aggravated me I’ve been a full time employee my whole career and they wouldn’t pay me full time pay (60 percent of full time pay that is🙄). Things need to change

I’m 29 and 36 weeks pregnant with my first, I’m a painter and decorator and this is my final week in work. I planned to work up until 37 weeks but my body is telling me enough is enough, my job is pretty demanding, if I don’t put in the work, the job won’t get finished and that would create a domino effect on the next job, which is also creating mental strain as well as physical. It’s almost impossible to find and relate to other female tradies when it comes to maternity leave, If anyone else on here is in a similar situation, I would love to hear your thoughts or experiences!

I am pregnant with my 1st child in my 30s and have no complications, which is why I was thinking to work until 36 weeks. But, now I will rethink, as I want my baby to be healthy.

I work full time remotely from home. My work is based two timezones from my home so I'm not on demand until 10am at the earliest. This has helped so much as I have the flexibility to sleep longer. The flip is that I should be available for meetings until 6pm which during the current busy season at my work is at least 1-2 times a week. I've been exhausted during those meetings and cannot emphasize enough how much I appreciate my husband pulling dinner together so I can eat once the meeting is over. Overall I'm beyond fortunate but the further along I get (I'm 22 weeks now) the more I just want to think about everything baby. I have had to be much more intentional to focus on work. I feel like because I have a fortunate work setup and a very supportive husband/family that I should be able to work further into my third trimester but worry I won't be in the right head space to maintain my productivity. I'm blessed with very generous benefits but really want to use them when baby is here.

Anyone pushing vit k vaccine for a newborn or baby is an absolute psycho. Where is ur real evidence????

I’m trying to work until I give birth I’m at 30 weeks now

I'm 35 weeks in 2 days and I've just sent them an email to be all done at 36 weeks. I had to call out today due to being sick but also exhausted and burnt out. I'm having insomnia and I can tell I just need to fully surrender to this baby's timeline and just rest right now and get him into position

Much as I appreciate this woman's perspective and normalising of starting maternity leave early, I just want to share that, in my own experience (low risk and relatively smooth pregnancy, and office job), it is also OK to decide to work up to your due date, if you feel up to it and your work is not too physically demanding.

My 1st born had the shot in 2004 and she was premature at 36 weeks. She developed severe jaundice and was under the lights for 13 days after. It was awful to deal with in the NICU. She even had to go back to the hospital after being released for 7 days because her labs showed her jaundice was still high. I was 20 years old when I had her. No one asked my permission back then to give her the shot nor explained anything to me. My daughter also developed hearing problems as well. This is also a result of severe jaundice. She also had difficulty in school and some developmental delays. I never made the connections till I started researching this!! After all these years…. I’m currently 29 weeks pregnant with my 2nd and seriously considering having her not get the shot. I have a genetic disease called Ehlors-Danlos Syndrome. It’s a connective tissues disease and with this we also have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and don’t respond well to injections of any kind. Even lidocaine we don’t tolerate well. My children have a 50% chance of inheriting my EDS. My 1st born did and my 2nd most likely will also.

I’m 27 weeks and work full time and two doubles on the weekends . I stand ALLLLLL DAYYYY long . Its exhausting and depressing . I dread it every weekend . But need every cent 😫😫😫

35 weeks and I want to stop so bad but doctor won’t sign off on it and military won’t let me stop unless I have a docs note😒

First trimister makes me feel I'm gonna die during work because of my excessive vomiting, headache and nausea. Please help. I'm working 12 hours in home care.

Honestly the best video I have seen on this topic. I searched because my conscience tells me leaving work early is the right thing to do. But we want to appear as strong but we are actually very exhausted

This is so helpful, I'm honestly so tired and I'm 31 weeks and working full time every day and working condition are not really ideal. But I'm definitely stopping soon after 32 weeks. For my sanity and for healthy pregnancy. Praying for all the moms to have a healthy delivery

Thank you Kathy

This was the best informative video I have seen so far! Thank you so much I work at a plant building cars and I’m on shift work My mum was telling me that I should take my maternity leave as close as I could to my 40 week mark and I disagreed with her I really appreciate this video because I knew it was not an appropriate time to take off and I was really stuck trying to make a decision considering my work environment and the low motivation I may have in the later months of my pregnancy Thank you again!💕

Not helpful, not accurate. 1:13 you have already said dilate incorrectly several times. Regardless of anything else you have to say, if you can not get this point correct no one will listen to you.

I stopped working at 8 months and everyone treated me like I was lazy. They had no idea how exhausted I was from creating a child

Thank you so much for this. You have such a sweet manner and I felt like I was listening to someone close to me.

I just hit 32 weeks and I was going to work until 36, but I am so OVER IT and my employer cut my hours by 50% anyway, so I'm going to have the talk with them tomorrow and tell them I'm just done. I am single so I'll be on government benefits while pondering ways to generate my own income in the future but you are right, healthy, broke, and second-hand is better than the alternative possible outcomes. I'm looking forward to peace and rest.

In love with this advice

As a first time mum to be I'm finding it hard to know when the best time to leave is. I want as much time at home with my baby as possible so I was planning on leaving a month before my due date but now thanks to your advice I am looking into leaving earlier x

Thank you so much.

Im 35 weeks and was planning on stopping at 38 because of pressure from my work. But honestly I’m exhausted and can’t do it anymore. This has helped me to make my decision to start me leave next week.I wish i should have started earlier.

I’m 37 weeks... still working

I hope I can rest more but I do not get any support. I have to work till due date and back to work two weeks after delivery

So true!! I have seen so many pregnant women going to labor with certain complications and all due to overworking and not taking care of themselves. Doctors don't tell you that but is a fact 👌

Hi! Thank you for this video. I’m 28 years old, had a stillbirth due to placenta abruption last July 2020 at 33 weeks gestation. I’ve shared with my doctors that I believe I had undiagnosed preeclampsia or eclampsia; because even though my blood pressure was normal, due to Covid I barely had any in-person checkups, gained 30lbs in the last 3months and was absolutely as swollen as one could be. I’m now 16 weeks pregnant and would just die if I lost this baby too. My doctors are very supportive and insist they’d write any note needed to get me out of work if it came down to that. I work Monday to Friday 9-5. When do you suggest I stop working?

WHEN TO STOP WORKING DURING PREGNANCY? drdad.in/when-to-stop-working-during-pregnancy/

WHEN TO STOP WORKING DURING PREGNANCY? drdad.in/when-to-stop-working-during-pregnancy/

Not a lot of Information out there about this. Definitely appreciate you making this video. Apart for being a great source of information you gave (at least me) reassurance about making the best choice for my baby and I. Thank You so much. I was thinking of working all the way up to the day of...After watching your video I have decided to stop at 32weeks. Thank YOU !!!

Thank you so much for making this video. I am on a decision phase and this is exactly what i need to hear.. God bless

I’m 21 weeks and I’m done! Finally came out of morning sickness phase, but I’m tired every moment of the day, having back pain, and pain from my fibrosis. My job is about 95% less physical, but the pressure to get the job done is still present and by 2 PM my tired switches to exhaustion. I can hardly form sentences and pregnancy brain goes into full mode.

I’m 36 weeks 4 days and still working....

In that circumstance I'd have to say "If a Paediatric doctor gave you advice about the health wellness of your infant, but you as the Mother instinctively disagreed with the opinion, what would you do?" In a way it's no different ... except your baby is being held by your womb instead of held by your arms. x

What do you do if your doctor insists you continue to work at 34 weeks ?

I'm due in February and I'm taking mine in November so excited I tend to deliver early 32 and 34 weeks pregnant. So I will be around 25 weeks to chilll out my job is all day on my feet walking only a lunch break. Im making the decision on my own

That sounds amazing. Unfortunately , here (USA), we have to work until the day we go into labor and then we only have 6 weeks after birth ...