Working moms

motherofrockets

How is everyone getting through working during the first trimester? I'm absolutely miserable and I feel like every day is something new, today is the headaches, yesterday the nausea, bloating and food cravings another.. ect. I feel like I'm not functioning with pregnancy brain either, which can be very detrimental and dangerous in my line of work as I do a lot of analysis and testing involving explosives. The fact that I'm in a male dominated role doesn't help either, because not very many people are going to sympathize with me when and if I tell anyone. I'm a STM and the first go around I had zero symptoms and I was still in school, so I could easily just stay home if I wasn't feeling great.
Does it get any better? Yikes.

izza2

Generally speaking, the farther along you are, the more minimized your symptoms will be. So yes, it usually does get better.

I've had severe nausea and MS since 4 weeks, and have been taking Zofran to handle it (tried Phenergan; didn't work) because I wasn't functioning at work or life in general. I'm at the point (9w4d) where I don't have to take the Zofran every 8 hours to get relief; I can go almost 12 hours before starting to get nauseous.

jenny2018

I'm in the same boat as you with working and not being at the top of my game. I'm about 7 1/2 weeks and personally just feel "blah" all day long. I've had a couple of bad episodes of nausea at the office, thankfully I didn't actually get sick. For me it's more like my stomach always feels unsettled, not much seems to help it. Not to mention with my hormones, I can tell I get annoyed much more easily than normal in the office. I'm so ready for the holiday break. I'm hoping I can get over the hump then.