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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm honestly psyched that we're going back right before my due date - I'd like to get some face time with folks and get back into the groove before maternity leave. Partially, I think, because covid started in the middle of my last maternity leave, so I don't want to go right from maternity leave to maternity leave without seeing anyone face to face!

I wouldn't ask unless you have a specific reason - just "the last three weeks of pregnancy kinda suck" doesn't feel like enough. If your commute is long and you want to be close to home for labor, okay, ask. If you walk to work and it'll be too hot those last couple weeks, okay. But if you'll just be uncomfortable and contracting at your desk - wouldn't that be the same if you were home? It feels like by asking to telecommute, you're basically saying "I was going to phone it in those days anyway."[/quote]

Let me ask you this:

If men had to be uncomfortable and contracting at their desks, do you think they'd come into the office?  [/quote]

PP here - absolutely freakin not. They'd also not work the bulk of pregnancy, and take a solid year of leave after the baby was born. But that's not the world we live in. We live in a world where, if you're lucky, you get 12 weeks off for maternity leave, and most people opt to work through pregnancy and maximize their time off to recover from birth and bond with the baby. If the OP doesn't feel up to working through the end of the pregnancy, then she can shift to use more of her leave before the baby comes. But that's not what she's talking about - she's talking about working at home vs. in the office. And I don't see how, with the parameters she's setting, that would effect her comfort or contractions - she's going to be sitting in a desk chair, working at a computer, uncomfortable and contracting, whether she's at home or in the office. So absent some other reason she should be home, I think it's a tough case to make, and so my advice to her (as another, currently pregnant woman) is not to ask, but just to come in, and save her political capital at work for other stuff. [/quote]

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