This is kind of a vent, but I am just so very tired. I'm barely coping with being at work, and I have *no* idea how I'm going to keep going until at least 32 weeks. It's such an effort to drag myself in here, and I'm so unproductive.
Is anyone else struggling with work so early on? Other people seem to be OK working until just before their EDD, but I just can't see how I'm going to do it. I feel so big and cumbersome already, I can't imagine doing this when I'm twice as big as I am now.
The earliest I can go on leave is the end of November, and that seems an eternity away.
Urgh. Anyway, I know I'm probably being a sook and I should just deal with it, just had to have a little whinge.
after the rank morning sickness, constant migraines and overwhelming tiredness that lasted to 18 wks, I have had 4 weeks of feeling great BUT STILL dragging myself off to work, daydreaming, reinventing the meaning of the word "spacey" and running into things (i'm not even that big yet) then yesterday the "i don't want to be here" feeling became overwhelming so on a sick day today (unpaid leave as i have no sickies left!).
if anyone has any great ideas on how to make my previously enjoyable job feel like that again please tell me as well! i have until just before xmas to work and man i'm counting (literally - the weeks on the calendar!)
Yep, I'm only 17 weeks and I'm exhausted! I've already dropped a day of work and my boss says I can take my mat leave whenever I want, obviously just give some notice. But I will try hang in there til 30+ weeks hopefully! I've been so tired and forgetful - I keep making stupid mistakes at work but I've been told it will only get worse! One of my managers keeps going on about how I have it easy, because I'm only part time and how she worked up to 2 weeks before her due date full time. BLAH BLAH BLAH! Well I do full time uni and have to go home to assignments and study, and don't have the luxury to sleep or have weekends!
Maybe you can drop a day or reduce your hours? I find the days I work just go soooo slow
In fact I'm so tired now I think I'm going to have a nap...
I'm in the same boat ... I am exhausted but I think for me it has more to do with the fact that now my priorities have changed I just don't want to be here which makes it hard to come in a be productive!
My job involves quite a lot of forward planning and I just can't see the point considering that I am going to go on ML in December.
Is it possible to go down to 4 days a week or shorter days just to make it more bareable?
The thing is, I already only work 4 days a week! Which is a godsend, there is no way I'd be coping doing 5 days.
IKWYM with the priorities, I am so preoccupied with the baby and all the things I have to organise, that I really just don't care about work at all. I'm just sitting it out really.
Have to try to keep in mind that the longer I work the more we can afford to do before the baby arrives - like putting in some air-conditioning.
Lucyinthesky - I have 5 days of sick leave left and I'm rationing them! Need to hang on to all my annual leave so I can finish earlier.
Hi Devon
Know just how you feel, Sal's employer just ( very nicely, I might add ) offered to drop a day or a day and a half from her roster as she is sooooo exhausted and not coping. We've had a couple of bleeding scares already, so I am hoping she will take the offer and go down to 3 or 2.5 days a week. Don't feel bad about not functioning at work, just remember you only get to experience the first pregnancy once! If you choose to have another baby, you will already have a little one running around the house. This is the last time in a loooong time that you can be selfish and think about yourself first. Some women cope with working all the way to term and others don't. You don't have to feel bad that you are tired! Take the time and enjoy being pregnant if you can afford to.
Good luck!
I laughed when I read your post bcos that is how I feel now and am not even 8 weeks!!!!!!
With my first pg it was exactly the same, but we had a few complications too so was on and off work a bit, but at then end of the day your priorities have changed.
I had women say to me that they "worked up to the minute they gave birth" and I would say "wow good on you I want to enjoy being pregnant and have a break before I start real sleep deprivation". And then I would tell them that I was planning to finish work at 32 weeks and the faces were hilarious!!
Pre-pg I was a career minded ambitious dynamo then I fell pg and turned into a jelly brained procrastination queen - but hey it was all worth it and is just a taste of how your perspective changes once you have those babies! Lucky I work for myself now!
Remember you are growing a little human being and just like we are all different, each little baby affects its mum as it grows in a myriad of ways! Stop when you need to - yes pregnancy is a condition, not an illness but I bet the person who said that was a man or had a "perfect" ms-free bloat-free once in a million pregnancy!
Is anyone finding it difficult to keep working?
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