If women are healthy enough, should we not be allowed the right to choose whether we want to take two, three, four or 14 weeks before having a baby? Our system is forcing expectant mothers to put unusual dates on their maternity leave benefit forms. Did it never strike anybody that Ireland might have the highest rate of premature babies in the world? All our babies come two weeks early, based on the social welfare certificates, because women are declaring confinement dates two weeks later than the expected date.