Pregnant and working
Work conditions and additional discomforts and stress
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I'm pregnant and my due date is August 3, 2017. I'm 39 years old and there's a gap of a bit more than 12 years between my youngest and the baby in my belly. No longer the youngest mom. I don't feel good at the moment. I have stomach pain, especially when I exert myself. As soon as I get to work, I have a constant hard belly and I notice - I'm a receptionist - my patience isn't as stretchable as usual. Despite my enthusiasm. But I also don't find my working conditions optimal in my condition. I work shifts from 8am to 8pm with sometimes barely a 12-hour break in between. Plus it's a special stress environment (for seniors, risk of falling, dementia patients, hard of hearing...) and I find the workplace absolutely not ergonomic. An Ikea chair for less than 100 euros where 7 out of 7 / 24 on 24 adults sit of different weight categories. I am absolutely not happy in my current job. Therefore I've made the decision to still take parental leave before my delivery, despite the loss of income I'll have here. But I can no longer combine this job personally in my condition and my busy family (3 teenagers + self-employed man - 1 out of 1000, by the way). I also had an unpleasant encounter with my mother last week, from which I'm still not okay. I find it quite egoistic of her, but so be it, that's a whole history where I could definitely fill a whole forum with.
In short, I feel like I can't carry this pregnancy in this way. It scares me.
I have an appointment with the gynecologist on March 8th. What seems SO long to me now... pfff... sorry for my sighing and complaining...
I'm pregnant and my due date is August 3, 2017. I'm 39 years old and there's a gap of a bit more than 12 years between my youngest and the baby in my belly. No longer the youngest mom. I don't feel good at the moment. I have stomach pain, especially when I exert myself. As soon as I get to work, I have a constant hard belly and I notice - I'm a receptionist - my patience isn't as stretchable as usual. Despite my enthusiasm. But I also don't find my working conditions optimal in my condition. I work shifts from 8am to 8pm with sometimes barely a 12-hour break in between. Plus it's a special stress environment (for seniors, risk of falling, dementia patients, hard of hearing...) and I find the workplace absolutely not ergonomic. An Ikea chair for less than 100 euros where 7 out of 7 / 24 on 24 adults sit of different weight categories. I am absolutely not happy in my current job. Therefore I've made the decision to still take parental leave before my delivery, despite the loss of income I'll have here. But I can no longer combine this job personally in my condition and my busy family (3 teenagers + self-employed man - 1 out of 1000, by the way). I also had an unpleasant encounter with my mother last week, from which I'm still not okay. I find it quite egoistic of her, but so be it, that's a whole history where I could definitely fill a whole forum with.
In short, I feel like I can't carry this pregnancy in this way. It scares me.
I have an appointment with the gynecologist on March 8th. What seems SO long to me now... pfff... sorry for my sighing and complaining...
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