So you were back at work 10 months (almost exactly right?) but looks like the first month well 10th April till 5th May (I wonder why 5th and not 1st?) is not counted - making you under the 10 months within the 13 slightly?

Are there any pregnancy complications you can use as an explanation of why finished up in Feb - I am sure they must have to take that sort of thing into the equation. Can you claim later? If your bub comes a little early then surely you will be very nearly 10 months.

I think the whole 10 out of the previous 13 is odd anyway - went back to work when my DD was about 14 months and worked till 5 weeks before DS was due (at least 22 hours a week) and I didn't quite qualify (over 9 under 10). I wouldn't have thought that, that sort of work pattern was that unusual, and lots of people have even less time between 1 & 2 and still work. The difference between Baby Bonus and FTB B at the time worked out only marginal - but now with the reduction in Baby Bonus for subsequent children from Jul 1st - it makes PPL the better option. It really makes no sense to me that you can work 9 months full time and not get it, but work just 8 hours a week for the 10 months and get it. (In my mind again it is another element of the PPL that is poorly thought out for the current time where working patterns of women are quite different to how they used to be).