Anyone else work in hospital as nursing assistant?

13HR shifts are killing me such a heavy job making my anxiety worse

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I’m a student nurse and I’m on placement from start of April until end of June and I’m honestly dreading the 12 hr shifts 🥲

It’s so hard going 😭 make sure you make the ward manager aware and don’t be doing anything too heavy especially changing beds on your own I’ve been so savage with what I will and won’t do until it’s safe

Mee! I'm a hca on surgical assessment unit. I only work 2 days a week now which I'm thrilled about! Already planning where I can fit my holidays in when I'm further along and I can get it so I'm down to 1 day a week well before I go on maternity!
I'm not really suffering yet as I'm only 4 weeks but I am a bit nervous as my manager hasn't even picked up my email yet to tell her and I'm sure a risk assessment is meant to be done as we have covid and infectious patients as well as moving heavy patients etc. Plus there's moving wards etc so figured I best tell them ASAP.
Hope fully everyone else can pick up the extra load to take a bit of pressure off you! X

I’m pre and post surgical as well my sister did risk assessment and has been amazing!! We have covid on our ward at the minute and I’m just refusing to work with them hard to put the load onto others without actually telling them your pregnant as I’m only 5 and half weeks

Yeah everyone on our ward has to tell people pretty early because of this! If I have to then I will. But hoping to keep it quiet for a while cos I'm super early! We have everything on our ward from surgical, urology, gynae, max fax, ent, opthomology etc and all acutely unwell. Can't wait for the fun to begin ha.
Hope you manage to find a way around it without telling people x

Yes I’m a labour ward coordinator so can be very stressful the nights were the worse x

my boss has been amazing a taken me off nights until I hopefully reach the 12 week stage 🤞🤞🤞

I’ve got a fair few nights but can’t really swap them easily because I’m in charge there’s only so many people to cover, I have a meeting with my manager on Monday and will let her know I’m expecting then as if all doesn’t go to plan I will need time off again x

I work every Wednesday night! Hoping to survive them 🙏

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Go to dinner ideas

Looking for recipes you use in your family that are not the traditional lasagna, shepards pie, ect

Love my husband. Love my kids. But…

I’m 32 weeks pregnant with twins. I take care of my 4 yo, 2 yo, and 1 yo. I barely have energy to stand anymore. I cuddle and watch movies with my kids all day at this point. My husband is less pushy in this pregnancy in wanting to be touched or love up on me. But I feel more like a tool these days more than ever. He gets frustrated (not to a crazy degree) but I can tell he huffs because he’s probably sexually frustrated from me not wanting to be touched on. (my boobs are super sensitive atm) I love having the babies part, but the pregnancy also now has me feeling like a baby making machine. And a tool with big boobs made for touches and my husbands pleasure. Ofc I love my husband and kids, but with my hormones all wack, it really doesn’t feel the same when you’re not turned on. It’s so hard for me to get turned on. I’m uncomfortable all the time in my own body. Babies moving in there all the time. My children cuddle me all day but get rowdy at the end of the day, so I end up getting touched out and I can get irritable when my husband tries to touch me affectionately. He doesn’t have the tact necessary for me right now, when I wish he wanted to go in for a normal comforting hug I’m let down more often than not, there is almost always a boob groping involved as well. I tried to just let him touch me last night so he could get it out of his system, but he could tell I felt tense. Wish my boobs weren’t such an uncomfortable place for me to be touched. Idk why I’m making this post. Probably just to vent. Wish men were equally as emotionally intelligent as women. Wish I didn’t feel like I still owe him something because he’s picking up a lot of the house load and yet I still need to ask him to do more before these twins arrive. He’s tired every day when he comes home, so he takes a shower sometimes works out, and helps get the kids to bed. So it’s a struggle getting him to help any further than that. Weekends are my only time to get to him. But it’s a struggle to find time on weekends too. I know if he wanted to he would. But there’s just no drive.

If you DO NOT buy things second hand, it is mainly because:

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What are we giving our soon-to-be 3yo for their birthdays?

We have the magnetiles, we have the kinetic sand and play doh, we have the play kitchen…

Literally, is there anything left in the world to buy this spoilt kid? 😅

Baby groups?

Hello there!!
I hope you enjoying the 5month babies 🫠 the cuteness outweighs everything over here.
We live in the area of Croydon & need to start going to baby groups ( I NEED it more than him though) but I am a little bit clueless. Any recommendations?
We are happy to travel a bit too.
Thanks ☺️

Looking for connection!

31, to be 32 this year. Baby boy due in June. FTM. Looking for someone to relate to, let’s support each other! I could use a good friend, I’m a great one myself! Bluntly honest, will always stand by you whether we agree or not! Located around southwestern Ontario but open to long distance :)