New mummy

In your early stage of pregnancy if u can go on sick leave pls do as it is the most important stage of pregnancies . After the 1st trimester u have to be active so that when it time for labour babba will come out willingly.

The best advice I can give is to let your boss know that you are pregnant, they then will have a risk assessment for you which will outline what you’re able to do/ not comfortable doing. It will also go through things like your workstation, chemicals you might come across etc. This might help reassure you what you can do at work.

I'm going to be honest I have been at a job from January, in February I fell pregnant and then had a stressful encounter in April and basically at the end of April I went on sick leave as I was bleeding and was scared I will lose the baby. If my job wasn't so stressful I would've continued working until labour pretty much as I had a WFH situation. I am glad I was on sick leave the whole pregnancy though as I had time to look up what I needed for the baby. I could've gone out more during the day for walks during second trimester mainly. During first I was sleeping when I could as I was extremely tired. And then in the third I had horrible PGP and couldn't walk even 5 steps so most of the days I spent in bed or on the sofa as everything hurt otherwise. I did go swimming almost daily though as that helped with the PGP and was the only exercise I could do.

did you mean advice on stop working or stop worrying? I thought maybe you meant worrying and it was a typo.

Yes I mean worrying I didn’t even notice that

I feel you. It was a very scary and full of anxiety period! (until I heard her heartbeat) ☺️As soon as you formally inform your employer of your pregnancy you are officially protected under the discrimination and equality act. This is very important as your work place will have to adapt to your very important circumstances without being at risk of losing your employment. I went from 5 days in the office to 2, then 1 and my last month fully remote. The team sized down but they couldn’t give me more workload and of course I had time off to attend all my health appointments.

P.S when I was so full of anxiety what helped me was seeing her in the right place doing the right thing I was only 7 weeks pregnant. I had mild cramps so I went to E&A and they sent me to the early pregnancy unit to scan my uterus. No questions and no judgment. That’s my advice