Due Date 03/03/14

[phleb]

So when do i submit mat leave etc. My manager hasn't advised me at all, don't think he has a clue. I will take my remaining holidays and add them to mat leave and hope to take mat leave around December time. Is that to soon?. I have a month of annual leave to take. I work for the NHS. Any advice and info welcome. I am a bit confused.

[Prudie]

Sorry no but the NHS has a very robust HR dept surely? They should be advising you even if your manager doesn't know. Have you told them yet?

[pixie373]

It depends how long you want off after you have the baby. Most people i know have worked for as long as possible up to the birth (there is a limit before the baby is due, but i can't remember how many weeks). The more you take before the birth, the sooner you'll have to go back after, even with a month of Annual Leave. Personally, i would leave it until later, but it's your choice. Do you know how long you'll have? Be on full-pay/half-pay etc?

[4getmenot]

i think you have to tell them so many weeks before birth. think its 20 but check on direct gov. my hols run march to march. i. was due in june so i took al 5.6 weeks before maternity, and im so glad i did. i couldnt move much and was huge. many congrats by the way. i guess its your first?

[4getmenot]

and i only took all mine before coz i knew when i came back al my annual leave would start again.

[bednobs]

you can't "officially" request your mat leave until you have the matb1 certificate, which you can't get till around 20-21 weeks. It's up to you how much you want to take - you can take up to a year (the last 13 weeks unpaid) you can work up till the day you give birth if you like. By law you must take at least 2 weeks off after the birth

[bednobs]

sorry, meant to add you cant take it until 11 weeks before your due date

[bednobs]

and you need to add leave onto the beginning or the end

[bednobs]

who cares what you think about matters? the OP has asked for factual advice, not on what you think about maternity leave.

[excelsior-1]

phleb - - congratulations on your pregnancy


hope it's a smooth one for you

[4getmenot]

ha ha jeza. in your dax women probably didnt have to work.

[friedgreentomato]

Jeza how rude and nothing to do with the OP.

All my friends have worked as far as possible so as to take more time off after the birth.

[phleb]

I'm due on 3/3/14. So thinking of taking some annual leave in January to get organised and start mat leave at around 34-36 weeks pregnant. My work have been so great. I fainted today while on a busy ward, and i was very embarrassed, but they took care of me and said i could go home. Seeing as we were short staffed i couldn't do that to them (i know i should put me first, but no harm done), so stayed and worked in a cubicle. I find sitting is better at the moment, when i stand for too long i get dizzy and feel faint. I have new experiences with this pregnancy, and never felt this ill. I had 2 migraines this week aswell.