Anyone else still working? How are you feeling?

[simoneandbump]

Im still working at 30 weeks, i know its still only early but i work full time as a carer for people with mental health. So its quite a demanding job physically and mentally. I got on maternity leave on the 13th Feb and to be honest, i cant bloody wait!!!!

 

[sandilion]

Yeah i am feeling VERY over working right now. I work in a call center (retired hairdresser) and they are all about stats stats stats!! I am finding it very draining. So sick and tired of it. I am also feeling more tired now too as the baby grows, and yeah i just wanna start my nesting phase and get the nursery organised etc. Haven't even started it yet

My mat leave starts 14th March ... still feels so damn far away!!!

 

[Siuan]

Oh, I am so with you all on this. I am sitting at work today and I REALLY don't want to be here. I have a house which needs serious tidying. It's a bloody mess everywhere and it's driving me mad. But by the time I get home I'm too knackered to do anything.

I didn't sleep well last night either so I'm exhausted today. One of our cats decided to stay out until 12am which worried me and then I just couldn't get comfortable. I have a new member of staff in my team at work whom I'm really supposed to be talking to more, but I've dumped her on one of the others to deal with and I'm counting the days until I leave here. I checked out a good couple of months ago!

I leave here at 36 weeks, 24th February and I cannot wait! 21.5 days to go - 'cos I have 5.5 days A/L to take between then and now which makes it less time. C'mon time... go quicker! (and then slow down so I have time to sort out the nursery!!!) lol!

 

[Hutchess]

i still have a week and a hlaf to go before i finish up and i will probbaly 'work' on a little longer from home just overseeing some deliverables - control freak!

i found it harder at about 30 weeks as my sleep started to be disturbed but i'm now used to 4 or less hours a night and it kinds feels normal now.

struggling a bit today as my nausea from 1st tri has returned but the light is def at the end of the tunnel!!

 

[fairy1984]

working until 36+4 and i know from last time that making it there will be a struggle.

i've mentally checked out though as 1)i'm on here when i should be working right now haha and 2) whenever people keep talking about things that are happening mid/late march onwards i just agree with them and in my head i think "haha i'm not going to be here"

 

[Debbie82]

I'm still working and it's getting harder and harder. I'm going to invent a bump friendly desk as my backs killing me cos I can't sit flush against my desk

I've still 5 weeks to go at work and if I have to stand another train journey I'll probably burst out crying

However, my mum and MIL have said they don't think I'll make it to 32 weeks and I'm determined to prove them wrong (I also don't wanna miss out on my leaving lunch).

 

[pixxi]

Still working here too. I finish next Friday when I'll be 38+3....really can't wait. It's a desk job so nothing physical at all. The amount of stuff I have to do is petering out which doesn't help my already dwindling motivation and so I'm spending most of the day on B&B and reading up on baby stuff! Kind of glad I won't have too long at home alone before the birth though or I would go insane with boredom and impatience.

 

[China girl]

Let me join in....

Hopefully I will be working up until I deliver. I have a desk job with no physical activity. Just getting up to go to the printer. If I work past April 8, then I will get 100% pay (only for 8 weeks). That is the ONLY thing keeping me motivated.

I feel like crap!!!....If I sit too long I get really bad cramps around my "area" I can't take the steps cause I get out of breath....I really don't remember my first two pregnancies being this bad...could be that I was a lot younger

 

[littleANDlost]

it was my first day of leave yesterday (though i'm taking 5 weeks holiday before my actual mat leaves starts) but before then i'd had enough weeks before, my job is quite stressful though and i'd just given up on my targets and didn't care anymore. However, second day off today and already bored! lol

 

[trudie100]

I'm not close to the end yet but I am already finding getting up, getting dressed, going to work and actually working tedious. My job isn't very stressful nor does it require a lot of physical activity. I think I've mentally checked out. Seems normal...or is it?

Im working until 2 weeks before my dd so ive got 5 weeks to go and ive had enough already LOL

Im really busy and also i drive 1.5 hours to get to work, and same again back so even though im just sitting at a desk by 3pm im starting to find im knackered

My backs only just started hurting the last week or so as well so sitting at my desk all day is a nightmare!

I want to go nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww x

 

[monkeydo]

I'm still working, I finish next Friday at 38 + 2.

To be honest, I would rather be here than at home because if I was at home I think the time would go sooo slowly. I'm nearly passed over all my work so I'm not doing anything too demanding, just bits of paperwork. I won't deny I'm tired and my mind isn't particularly on the job, but at least the time is flying by.

 

[bebedreamr]

Is it February 10th yet? No? :'(
My mind is so not here, but it doesn't help that I wasn't that into my job in the first place. I wish I was done, but I already told them my date and can use the money so I am here until Feb 10th or the baby comes. Plus, what would I do at home? I kind of hope I go overdue by a few days so I actually have some time to relax and sleep before she comes!

 

[Msocwife]

Im still working also, planning to until next Tuesday and i'll be 39 weeks then. I'm taking 13 weeks leave and would rather have the time off WITH the baby once she's here than use it before, so thats why i'm working up until then. I may even have waited longer than that but my family is coming in town next Wednesday so i wanted to be off when they got here too. REALLY hoping baby decides to come between 39-40 weeks so I get the most time i can with her BUt i'm not going to lie, working sucks!

 

[eulmh82]

You lot are hardcore working so long I was talking about this at work with a woman who went on mat leave last year - she finished at 32 weeks as she was struggling but actually was a good thing as baby was born at 33 weeks!! But we were syaing we don;t get bored in the 6 weeks hols - I am looking forward to having 4 weeks just to me as the next 18 years I am pretty sure will be manic!

 

[SpideyMom]

I'm still at work as well, not as far long as some of you ladies but still checked out mentally here. Getting up early and into the cold has not been very fun lately. We've been having temperatures around -30C so it's cold, cold, cold when I leave and then again after work. I cannot wait for my leave. Trying to stay as long as I can so I have more time at the end of my mat. leave.

 

[Sew_Sweet]

Luckily I sit pretty much the whole day - yet I've been feeling so tired lately. I think I take a nap every day after lunch on the sly now lol. I've also been coming in later and later - DOH. Luckily my boss is really nice and hasn't said anything. I'm pretty checked out at this point too. All I can really think about or focus on is baby right now. Good thing this is our slow time of year or I'd really be in trouble. My maternity leave won't start until I pretty much go into labor so I'm stuck here awhile

 

[MajellaG]

Im glad to hear im not the only one still physically working but mentally checked out!!
I just dont care anymore - roll on 4th Feb - Last day of work!!!

 

[rj84]

I feel exactly like this today!!!! I'm a teacher and I'm finding it so uninspiring at the minute and I'm unable to inspire the kids if I'm not inspired myself! I can;t be bothered. I am sooooo tired and I just want to coast out the last 3 weeks and 3 days but another part of me won't let myself. Plus I'm not able to as they keep giving us things to do on top of normal duties.

Oh I know this!!! I've got a week left in school and in agony. bad choice today of doing val saben dance. 4-7 yr olds don't really get on with things either!!!

 

[Scottishgem]

I am still working and will carry on working up until 37 weeks i am then on holiday for 3 weeks and will start my maternity leave on my due date, i am starting to struggle now, my job was as a nightshift manager however i came off nightshift and am on dayshift which is alot harder, still doing alot of lifting and bending over(and getting told off it) am counting down the days now hehe

 

[ggbaby2]

Still working but I'm miserable, no energy, no motivation