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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question what is the big deal is you go to work.

I used to have car service vouchers in my desk for limo service, we had security who was training, my company was near a hospital.

We had plenty of women over the years go into labor at work. Better than at home by your self or with kids with no one to watch.

Between heart attacks, births, accidents, even a shooting once we do it all time. We had 6,000 staff in building so almost weekly,

Heck I tripped once on curb got a estangled hernia and they got me into hospital asap at lunch time. Had HR coordinate medical benefits, security get me over there. Was not bad at all. Better than if I was home alone.     [/quote]

Years ago at 35 weeks pregnant my doctor determined I was in early labor and recommend reduced actives but not straight up bedrest. We had a major project due when I was going to be about 37 weeks and I asked if I could telework after the 37 week mark. At the time we had intermittent telework but I rarely used it. My project lead (female mother) said no but our manager (male / not a father) said it wasn’t up to her and it made sense.  My project lead’s rationale was that first babies are always late, water doesn’t break dramatically like it does in the movies, first deliveries are long, and we might need someone walking paperwork around the building at that point. She said she’d done it twice and it was fine. Her husband worked in our agency and they drove in together. I took the metro and my husband took metro to grad school and hour away. It ended up not being an issue because at 36.5 weeks I worked until 6 pm and early the next morning my water broke dramatically. My daughter was born 4 hours later. My husband left a message on my project lead’s voice mail and I heard later that she started a meeting with “she’s probably having a false alarm and we expect her in later today.” By the time she gave my team that update, I either was pushing or had delivered. [/quote]

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