Even if you give people at work a heads up at week 24, that's still a lot of weeks left to go in the ideal case. I caused my mother to get an emergency C-sectio

Even if you give people at work a heads up at week 24, that's still a lot of weeks left to go in the ideal case. I caused my mother to get an emergency C-section 4 weeks early and it still wreaked havoc with everything - most importantly, my father missed my birth because he had to go pick up my grandmother flying in from halfway across the world, who thought 4 weeks was plenty early. Besides, this kerfuffle says volumes about how some people would still react to an unexpected emergency. Death or severe illness in the family? Immediate medical emergencies? Taking care of myself and my immediate family comes before any corporate bullshit, personally. I wouldn't have it any other way.