I can't offer any sickness tips but I had awful nausea between weeks 8 - 17. The only thing which helped me was eating bland but small and often (rich tea biscuits and plain crackers with a tiny bit of butter!) and keep hydrated with small sips all through the day. Chewing gum helped also but nothing else i tried did the trick!
Congrats!
Even tuck jumps and shaking myself around didn’t budge her. She’s apparently nestled deep into my pelvis, which explains why I don’t have a bump yet!
Having one rich tea biscuit first thing in the morning helped to settle my stomach and reduce the morning sickness. I also had terrible motion sickness in the first trimester and used Preggie Pop sweets (I got them from Amazon) which really helped with car & train journeys. They just look like normal boiled sweets too so if you do bump into your colleagues they won't know it's pregnancy related.
Good luck! I really hope it goes well. The thread will be here for you if you need a debrief afterTomorrow's task is to finally tell my unsupportive parents that we’re having a baby.
Congratulations!!
Congratulations!!! I wish I could help, but I was sick from weeks 7-18ish and it came back at week 22. In 31 weeks and was sick 6 times today.
AS a room leader in the toddler room I feel your pain! What’s does your risk assessment say? I’ve updated mine to extra ten minute breaks as and when I need them, and I don’t do any lifting or any jobs other than paperwork and delegating where everyone goes. We also just changed teams but I kept a lot of my older staff in the room which helped as my management team didn’t want to add too much change/stress me out - although 24 toddlers on our busier day is hell on Earth
it’s so hard working in a nursery at the best of times let alone pregnant and having to carry on as normal!Which one did you get?Finally settled on and ordered our travel system. After a panic as it was going out of stock til December in almost every place
. feel great relief as I have not bought anything else except drawers so at least now the baby now has somewhere I can lay her if nothing else
Totally agree! I WFH and have basically given up now even trying
luckily my team are pretty chilled. I’m off camera now for all calls and on the sofa as was finding my desk chair too uncomfortable. I’m 37+3 so in the same boat with wanting to take it as close as poss to the due date.we went for the Cybex gazelle with the cloud T Car seat.
it’s beeen lovely the last 4 weeks having lie ins and watching box sets I worked until 36 weeks with my first on a job where I was on my feet most of the time (NHS surgeon) and on those last few weeks were a killer. Standing in one position for hours on a end nearly did me in.
I don’t know how you managed that!) in my first pregnancy. I’m a secondary school teacher and if I didn’t have a KS4/5 heavy timetable, I wouldn’t have managed it, but it was exam season so I was often only teaching 2 or 3 lessons a day. This time I think I’ll try to go to 37 weeks but won’t beat myself up if I don’t manage it.I feel this. Ive not long finished at 36 weeks as a midwife, and that was hard enough
Sometimes I wonder how I managed it. Didn’t even get a rest either as my daughter was born the day after I went on mat leave!
I went to 38+5 (the 5 days is important
I’m pretty sure you probably work harder!!I feel this. Ive not long finished at 36 weeks as a midwife, and that was hard enough
Hats off to you, that’s an amazing achievement!
I can't believe you did that. I WFH luckily and can do it from the sofa but I would have struggled even in the first trimester with how sick I was. Even last week I had to run off from a online meeting cause I was sick.
Really early on the sickness was hard - I mostly just had nausea but being in the OR was not fun at all. I think that was probably harder than the tiredness later on, especially as we were trying to keep it quiet as long as possible!
Had a solid day of meetings last week and couldn’t sleep with the pain later on