Hi Ezz .... no unfortunely due to OH & S I can't have anything other than the standard issue chairs!!! GRRRR!!!
The pillow seems to be help today :fingerscrossed:
I know I won't want to be home all day as I too would go brain dead but it would be nice to have a little more flexability in going home if I am really struggling to get through the day
is there a couch somewhere, you could always just put your legs up at lunchtime, and meditate/rest with your eyes closed?
I'm only 26 weeks and am well and truly over work - but then I was over work when I was about 12 weeks!!
Working up to Christmas, then leave, but also finding it really difficult to sit for long periods - I take the longest walk to the water cooler, toilets and anywhere else I can walk to.
Definitely talk with your boss about taking work home, or working longer days (when you can).
I'm struggling with work right now too, although I'm haivng a good day today as bub seems to have shifted off my back onto my bladder. Strangely, that's an improvement
I spent an hour and 45 mins getting to work and the same again going home, dropping my son off on the way. We leave home at 6am and get home at 5:30pm. The longest days of my life!!! I have oodles of sick leave though and have found that working every second day is really helping, with a rest day in between. I only have 2.5 weeks left. I can't wait!!!
Oh, and a heat pack is the only relief I get from my back pain. I've got a gel one rather than a wheat one and find that it moulds into the shape of my back a whole lot better
Hi Tarkine....
Nope no couch or anything ... I might bring that up next meeting ...LOL
I work in sales so there isn't anything that I can take home as I need access to systems at all times and they are still umming and aaahhhing about giving us all laptops instead of pc's so that we can have a little felxibility Great thought though!
Disgirl - I need to get a head pack so I will definately look into a gel one!!
I hope the next couple of weeks go quick for you then you and DS get to chill for a little while
trying to think of things I can do from home but nothing is jumping out at me yet. after closing DF's business not sure I am ready to head back into the fray ....
Some time before I got pregnant! LOL
No but it was very early in the piece - maybe 8 weeks? 2nd trimester was kind of ok but 3rd was just like groundhog day - every afternoon I would try to find somewhere quiet to sit or lie down - and there still wasn't anywhere! My legs and feet were so swollen it was a nightmare to walk anywhere and I never wore shoes in the office. Fortunately I didn't have to think much so that was a blessing! LOL
it really seemed to drag. I really feel for you girls!
Dee, I do exactly what I used to do in-house, only on a consultancy basis (I work in corporate affairs/communications). I branch out by doing a lot of writing and some marketing for smaller businesses as well. The hard thing is keeping the clients coming, although it is getting easier as time goes on (as long as I don't get caught napping in someone's office ).
Oh I'm not the right person to say this, but from about 6 weeks I needed a nana nap in the afternoon, so working a full day was not going to fit in! I work for myself and had that luxury... Didn't make much $$ during the pg - but hey, got plenty of rest!!
I am self employed but feel sooooo guilty if I take the arvo off...... I need to get over those guilt feelings and just do it
I'm not sleeping enough and I have 11 weeks left to go..... should be resting more!
You guys just make me realise how lucky I am. I am a graphic designer and although I have to endure the M5 freeway for on average and hour or more each way a day I have a job that also allows me to be just as productive if not more from home. My boss is very flexible and I will only go into the office on the random days between now and the end of the month and I will work right up till we knock off for Christmas on the 19th but work from home with no more commuting (THANK GOD).
But even today I worked from home and my feet a swollen and my tummy is so tight I can barely stand up straight. So I am just glad I am home and not having to contend with the traffic while feeling so tired.
I worked full time up til 37 weeks but probably would have liked to have finished up at 35. By then I just couldn't keep my mind on the job & my feet were so swollen I could hardly walk half the time. My OB wouldn't sign me off for sick leave and I wanted to spend all my mat leave at home with bubs so I perservered for the last two weeks. I'm glad I did perservere as I only ended up having 7 days off work before giving birth & it was boring as & I just got so obsessed worrying about everything. At least at work I had things to distract me.
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can i come work for you?
Jennifer -My legs and feet were so swollen it was a nightmare to walk anywhere and I never wore shoes in the office. Fortunately I didn't have to think much so that was a blessing! LOL
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