Vent!!! Working while pregnant.......

[Tinydancer]

I feel really embarrassed as I take great pride in my work normally, and now I can barely manage the most basic tasks.... of the 45 hours I spend at work a week, im probably only productive for 5. Im trying not to let it get to me, but its really stressing me out!

From week 5 of this pregnancy Ive been so tired and lethargic all day every day, I feel sick most days, constantly have a headache...... have ligament pains and am sooo vague.

I eat really, really well, take multivitamins, rest as often as possible and excersize when I can, so I dont know why im feeling this way. Everyone else seemed to cope just fine and so I feel like a wimp wanting to give up work. Even the midwife looked at me funny when I said I was planning to leave work at 28 weeks....

Im so over it...... not the being pregnant part... I know how blessed I am to be pregnant, but i wish I wasnt feeling like this so I could enjoy it and live my normal life while im waiting for my baby to arrive.

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Sorry - I know that alot of you have bigger worries than me right now!!! I just needed to vent!

[jamb]

just sticking my head in to say i was EXACTLY the same with my first pg. My productivity was a joke, i literally filled a chair and thats it.

My offsider had to take on all my interactions with the public (i could not form sentences, my tongue stopped working). By then end he was even answering my phone:o

I stopped at 33 weeks, just got dr to write a sick certificate as there was no point in me going in.

This pg much much better, i put it down to not having to get up to an alarm (well DS is an alarm of some sort i guess), no peak hour traffic travel, no office environment, no meetings/deadlines etc etc

I think my stress levels are so much lower and even though i would not say my job was stressful, just getting there and performing as such was stressful

:hugs: to you!

[Shana]

I take my hat off to you. I don't work so have not had that concern but I could not possibly have gone to work anyway during the last two months I was SO SICK. Now I just feel yucky all day and have very little energy . . I cannot imagine having to go to work too. I can only do half the washing up at a time and I'm absolutlely flat out getting a few groceries.
It seems many women who have trouble keeping up at work take in a Doc Cert and request reduced hours. Would this be an option for you? Obviouly it may reduce income, but if you can manage that it would no doubt make the next months a bit less 'tiresome'. Just a thought . .

Hope you get a burst of second tri energy soon!

[whatwasithinking]

That is precisly why I have just left work 4wks before my Mat Leave is supposed to officially start!

Now I just feel even more of a lazy ooff.

[Kittylou]

Oh, I understand how you're feeling. I'm not working but studying full time and am completely stressed out because my brain has gone to mush. For the first half of the semester I was feeling sick every day and somehow managed to struggle through but now that the m/s has gone I'm even worse. I'm tired all the time and my brain just doesn't seem capable of taking in anything I read, let alone writing assignments. I really wish I'd decided to take the whole year off instead of just next semester.

Last time I was pregnant I was temping and doing really easy tasks with no public interaction and no need to really use my brain at all. Even though I remember being completely exhausted, it was such an easy job that I could do it even though I felt like falling asleep at about 3.00pm every day.

[kaybee]

I know exactly what you are talking about! I'm finding it really hard to get through each work day! I feel very guilty that I don't feel like I'm being as productive as I usually am. Including travelling I am away from home for 10 - 11 hours a day, and I am exhausted both mentally & physically. I get home in the evening and I can barely manage to take my shoes off before collapsing on the couch. The housework has really slipped and we're having a lot of takeaway, which is not good for the budget/waistline. There is no way I could finish work early, I am the higher earner of the 2 of us, so we will need as much of my income as possible b4 I go on mat. leave!

[Tinydancer]

Thanks for the responses....

Its nice to know that im not the only one thats found it hard!!!

All will be worth it when the little one is here :D .

Thanks again........ feel better for getting that off my chest!!

[Kizmet]

hey hun, im not working this pregnancy as im sahm to DD but I worked whilst pregnant with DD up until I was 38 weeks pregnant. That said, I was buggered and only stayed that long as DH was finishing his course he was studying so was able to drive me to work every morning. I found the stress got to me too much and moved from my position to reception so all i had to do was file and answer the phone which made things so much easier. I dont know if a position switch is possible in your job but maybe something to think about?

[EcstaticEm]

Oh Thank god Im not alone!!!!!!!!!
I have no idea how the heck I am getting to work and getting home, let alone how on earth I will keep doing it for 6 more months.
My brain has turned to mush and I could sleep 24/7.
My boss has been good, but I feel like such a tool. I keep doing stupid things like locking the banking in teh freezer.. soooo embarrassing.. I do th eordering at work, so LOTS of stuff has been forgotton.. Its woeful..

Please say it gets better!!!!!!!!!

[Moops]

I finally decided to get a temp job when I thought the m/s had gone away, the agency I went through said not to tell them I was pg because it was only for 3-5 months.

Well I started about a month ago and I have not been feeling the best I've had headaches, hayfever and occasional nausea. I had to tell them I was pg but I feel really bad like I deceived them and I have had to take a few days off (including today) because I've been feeling like cr*p. I'm sure they aren't particularly happy with me but my bubs health comes first.

What do u think I should do? Stay or go?