My partner is on a career break and handles most of it, but would like me at the appointments, and I'd like to be there. The problem is my regional client meetings get fixed three or four weeks out, while the doctor's slots get confirmed a week before at best. I've already missed one. For those of you who travel for work: did you mark certain appointments as non-negotiable and let the rest go? Which ones turned out to matter?
Our second is a baby now, ten years after the first, so I've done this twice around a theatre schedule. The routine check-ups my partner was fine doing alone. The ones I'm glad I blocked were the detailed scan around the middle of the pregnancy and the visit where the delivery plan was discussed. Ask the clinic for a rough window for those as early as they can give one; most can once the earlier results are in.
Useful, thanks. I'll ask for the windows at the next visit and put both in the calendar now, before anyone books a client meeting on top of them.
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