Hi all, I need your expert advice regarding when I can try for a baby and receive company maternity pay! I need to have been with my employer for 1 year, 3 months before my due date, I started my job on the 30th March this year and we want to start trying for a baby asap. The first day of my last period was the 26th Septemeber and I have a 29 day cycle. So my question is, when can i try for a baby ensuring that I am guaranteed to get company maternity pay? Thanks for reading x x x
Posted by Trustie
hiya
please take this as a rough guide, I'm fairly new to it myself! For starters, I'd recommend you look at www.directgov.uk
http://www.directgov.uk/ / on maternity pay and conditions.
My cycles are roughly same length as yrs and I fell on a month before you, touch wood, I'm due early June 2010. So by yr reckoning, if you are pregnant this cycle (are you trying?), you would be due early July 2010, giving you your 1 yr and 3 months by just a whisker.
The thing to check out with yr employer, I wouldve thought, is how would they deal if your baby arrived prematurely (say by a few weeks), giving you a sooner due date than they allow?
there are lots of pregnancy dating and numbering sites you can put your figures in and they will give you approx due dates based on this -and also when's good to try, tho obviously some folks find this more useful than others.
good luck xxx
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