Working Mom's Check In 8/16/16

chavezrd2 · August 2016

Freelancing it this time - what's on your mind?

chavezrd2 · August 2016

37w this week and it's also my last in office week for me and I'm relived but annoyed, so much going on I hate that I'm leaving in the middle of the storm. Wishing kiddo would come sooner than later so I'm not expected to keep up my pace, then I'll really have a reason not to focus on work :P Balancing work and home is hard with DD starting school tomorrow then hectic here plus DH job is back on the idk if he'll have a job soon. I'm glad this all has my mind racing so I don't have time to worry about fear anxiety crap.

I read a Parenting magazine about working moms balance (or lack thereof), nothing new. It doesn't exist, we carry most of the work home/office even those with spouses. We need paternity leave... bla bla bla. Wish they'd do something about it other than just keep repeating it.

Tippy05 · August 2016

I originally thought this week was going to be pretty laid back and not stressful, but every time I turn around there is another meeting or conference call or appointment that I have to go to. At least these are all short term things, but still...

mrsvoorhees-2 · August 2016

I seriously have no desire to get anything done. And I can't sit in any position that's comfortable. My ribs and back both hurt really bad today, which just adds to my desire to leave. I did order some new steel-toe boots today, and they're actually cute, so that's a win?

AnnaS930 · August 2016

Feet are swelling despite keeping them up, doc offered to take me off work but I'd just lose time with baby so going to deal. But man, that was tempting, maybe in 2 more weeks we will take her up on that. Busy at work but so uncomfortable that it's tough. When I buy compression socks tomorrow I can add sweating to death to my discomfort. Yay.

chavezrd2 · August 2016

Any reason for the steel toe boots? When I hear that I think of the "these boots were made for walkin' and thats just what they'll do" song :P

lark81-2 · August 2016

I just left a little pity party over in randoms, but hey - why not here too! I just hit a wall of tired this week, and like @Tippy05 every time I turn around something new is getting tossed my way. The fall is our busy time, and about now is the time where things start picking up in the wine business...so it's totally a great time to have a baby (not). I work for a tiny company, so there's really no one to fill my shoes for certain aspects of my job while I'm out - so of course I feel bad. And I know I'm probably not going to get to finish everything I want to get done...blargh.

mrsvoorhees-2 · August 2016

chavezrd2 said:

Any reason for the steel toe boots? When I hear that I think of the "these boots were made for walkin' and thats just what they'll do" song :P

I just really like for my toes to be protected. Hahaha no, I work for an oil and gas company in safety, so I go
out to pump jacks and rigs and have to
wear all the safety clothing that those
safety jerks make everyone wear

CRich15 · August 2016

So for the last 3 days our network drives have been down and things were pretty quiet, well they came back online today and it's been nonstop. I don't mind it since it's making the day go but Mylanta I could really go for a nap!

DD has dropped and it's just pressure and pain everywhere. I'm grateful that I am starting to take every Wednesday off starting tomorrow and I hope that DS2s therapist is good with still not having a session tomorrow even though he starts school a week later than everyone else.

rock1cherry · August 2016

Getting down to the wire to finally find out what my leave will entail. I can't call before 30 days prior to my due date. So I have another 10 days or so...so that's good.

We just switched over our timekeeping software for our hours at work and it's a complete clusterf*?! No one in HR even knows what to do or how it works. Very frustrating.

Also, I have a performance review coming due next month and I'm hoping I'm there to have it done because I would like a raise.

I'm getting sick of work for the first time - just getting tired of it. Happy I will be off for some time with baby girl soon.

chavezrd2 · August 2016

Guy I work with told me today, "good thing you get to take a vacation soon" (maternity leave) wt*

jln27 · August 2016

I agreed to do night shift so that I could continue to work despite having appointments nearly every friggen day of the week but now I regret it. Night shift is solitary, so if I need help, or go into labor, or fall, or anything, I'm kind of screwed.

I also asked for fewer shifts (part time) so that I could rest more, but instead I wound up with a full schedule. My last week of work is busy instead of easy. Not something that anyone could really control, but it would have been nice...

I wish I had gone on leave/quit at the end of July, but we need the money too much.

bnt1023 · August 2016

As crazy as it sounds, sitting at a desk all day these past 3 weeks is the most uncomfortable thing I've experienced this entire pregnancy. I'm so ready for my LO to get here!

jas1982 · August 2016

Today was my last painful 7 AM firmwide meeting before I go on leave. Still sucked.

I have so much to do to be comfortable handing my cases to someone else, and I want to do those things so badly, but I am also so tired. Instead of accomplishing anything yesterday, I spent half the day at the OB and a lot of the rest marathoning Call the Midwife from bed. I am ready to be done with this pregnancy.

@chavezrd2 I believe I might have punched that guy.

hey_clever_girl · August 2016

My maternity leave is officially 4 weeks away & it's starting to hit us all. Like OH SHIT CRUNCH TIME. I'm feeling less stressed & okay about everything. Just counting the days. I am ready for a work break!

nativetexan512 · August 2016

MrsVoorhees lol, we can swap FRC and steel-toe fashion tips.

+1 zero desire to do anything and SO exhausted all the time. I am really trying to work till baby comes (due date 9/2) but every day is such a struggle to get to work and stay at work. Uncomfortable, tired, snacking all the time and peeing every 2 minutes, and my group is sweet but annoying with the constant "you are you feeling? I can't believe you are still here! how is the baby today??"

womp.

PSUBecky23 · August 2016

@MrsVoorhees I have steel toed boots, ear protection, a hard hat and a sexy flame retardant suit for certain site inspections of crazy industrial sites I have to do for some of my cases. (I wonder if I could fit into that suit now. Challenge accepted.)

Work hasn't been super busy lately but I still have a fair amount to do and need to get some things in order before handing my cases off to the other attorneys. I stuffed myself into a suit and heels yesterday for a hearing. That was fun. I wish I could declare a certain day my official last day. But alas, I'm only 36 weeks and I need every last one of my PTO days for maternity leave. Hopefully I don't go into labor at work. At least I'm not far from the hospital.

rock1cherry · August 2016

I had a press run to go to this morning in my plant. It's super hot out there as we produce and make corrugated board for packaging. It's very humid out there and since it's a manufacturing floor I also need steel toes, bump cap, earplugs and safety glasses. My glasses kept steaming up on me because I was so hot. Attractive.

hey_clever_girl · August 2016

nativetexan512 said:

MrsVoorhees lol, we can swap FRC and steel-toe fashion tips.
+1 zero desire to do anything and SO exhausted all the time. I am really trying to work till baby comes (due date 9/2) but every day is such a struggle to get to work and stay at work. Uncomfortable, tired, snacking all the time and peeing every 2 minutes, and my group is sweet but annoying with the constant "you are you feeling? I can't believe you are still here! how is the baby today??"
womp.

Oh, dude, this. My coworkers are ALL so sweet but I work at a place with 150+ employees and there's only so many times I can hear, "How's the baby? How much longer do you have?" before I start getting twitchy.

asht · August 2016

My last planned day of work is 8/31 with csection planed for 9/1. I'm not sure I can do it. Had a parent chew me out today and it took everything I had to not snap back. There were lots of sarcastic "ok"s and eventually " I don't know what you want me to say to you so I'm just going to listen". The kids are far easier to deal with!

AMT1107 · August 2016

I started maternity leave yesterday, so 2 days without work and to be honest, I love hanging out with my DS, but I'm bored! I'm a bit of an introvert, so the adult interaction is good for me, I think 3 weeks home with DS will get better but I run out of things to do with him. Some people are just not meant to be SAHMs, I'm one of them

chavezrd2 · August 2016

runningisrad said:

nativetexan512 said:

MrsVoorhees lol, we can swap FRC and steel-toe fashion tips.
+1 zero desire to do anything and SO exhausted all the time. I am really trying to work till baby comes (due date 9/2) but every day is such a struggle to get to work and stay at work. Uncomfortable, tired, snacking all the time and peeing every 2 minutes, and my group is sweet but annoying with the constant "you are you feeling? I can't believe you are still here! how is the baby today??"
womp.

Oh, dude, this. My coworkers are ALL so sweet but I work at a place with 150+ employees and there's only so many times I can hear, "How's the baby? How much longer do you have?" before I start getting twitchy.

I swear if i hear one more "when are you due?!" i'm gonna fkg lose it.

nanibrooks15 · August 2016

2 more weeks until my maternity leave begins and I can't wait. Though I mainly sit at a desk, work has been busy as ever and I'm tiiiiiired, it getting a lot of sleep from tossing and turning. Can't wait

JasonKristen · August 2016

Work is so hard and I still have to do it for 5 weeks.. ugh!

CRich15 · August 2016

4 more weeks... Lucky for me I only work two days at a time since I decided to take every Wednesday off. Cherishing those days for sure!

rock1cherry · August 2016

Work has been super stressful and busy lately. I was hoping the last month would be a little easier. I'm also growing more and more uncomfortable and tired by the day and I still have so long to go. I can't wait until I'm off.

asht · August 2016

I decided today that tomorrow I will be calling hr to see about making my last day next Friday. I can't do two more weeks tired and stressed then go in next day for csection

mrsvoorhees-2 · August 2016

@PSUBecky23 I had to go up 2 sizes in my coveralls because I couldn't zip them over my belly. I look like a real oilfield guy with a beer belly. Lol

yay for PPE! I don't have to wear all of
it much anymore because I took over corporate safety, which doesn't sound like much...but our company has never gone incident free on campus in almost 30 years. One year alone, we had 11 incidents on campus. This year, we are still at zero!!!! Makes me look damn good and I really didn't have anything to do with it because it's all due to our CEO calling corporate out. Haha I'll take that win though!!!

bunnymay · August 2016

I still don't have a plan on when I'm going on maternity leave. I'm going to hold off as long as I can. I stressing because we are waitlisted at two daycares for the infant room so I don't know when I'll be able to go back, or how many hours I'll be available. My work is willing to be flexible, but there are some big projects in the works and I'm having some serious FOMO.

hejo2016 · August 2016

I work with the public and see the same people every few months. They all comment on the shape of my belly, my size, my lack of size, is it a boy, is it a girl... Omg I'm over it. I know people are excited and are being nice, but damn, I'm done having my body assessed. The plan is to work up until I go into labor. Both kiddos were born at 38wks, let's hope this one follows that trend!

CindyR29 · August 2016

I was able to quit my job a month and a half before DS was born but I won't be able to do that this time around. I'm trying to wait until DD makes her arrival to start my maternity leave so I get more time with her before going back. Work has been okay up until now but with so many doctor appointments lately, my supervisor has been really rude about me needing to be off early for appts or about taking longer lunches for them. Even with me giving her my complete appt list months ago

nativetexan512 · August 2016

MrsVoorhees I have this debate a lot with friends at work. My company too has had stellar safety this year but I think a lot of it is due to the fact that our pace of work has slowed dramatically - less rigs, smaller drilling programs, less budget to travel so less people on the roads, etc. Of course, those things don't affect corporate - when we want to improve corporate safety we take away everyone's scissors and give them child safety scissors. :)

Also - I took off yesterday as a sick day/mental healthy day. It was glorious!

jellybiehn · August 2016

Well the official countdown has begun. 10 more shifts left and that will bring me to 39 weeks, if my OB doesn't pull me off work next week like she was hinting at yesterdays appt. It is definitely getting hard with all the physical aspects of the job and standing all day...I swear my feet are now swelling right over the top of my shoes at the end of the day.

I think I do too much at work and push myself more than I should be, but we work as a team in the OR, so anything I dont do has to be picked up by my coworker. Leaves me feeling guilty so I probably do more than I should be. Maybe being forced off a week earlier wouldn't be so bad.

Definitely not helping that Canada has been hotter than Rio this summer, I mean come on! Lol

rock1cherry · August 2016

Just posted this in the randoms but in hindsight maybe I should post here. It just dawned on me that I've used barely any vacation this year so I will have a nice chunk of time off with the leave I should be getting from my work. I find out next Thursday for sure what my eligibility is but I'm assuming 12 weeks of time off. Then I can take the remaining part of the year off using vacation time. As well as one week prior to her due date! This is the best news I can think of right now. Yay!!

drabong88 · August 2016

@rock1cherry that's awesome news! I get 12 weeks maximum after baby comes and it is going to use up every bit of PTO I have saved up to cover it. I am actually hoping our little guy decides to cook past his due date so I don't have to go back to work until after Christmas. That's the one thing about working in the medical field that I dislike is having to work holidays.

lark81-2 · August 2016

chavezrd2 said:

runningisrad said:

nativetexan512 said:

MrsVoorhees lol, we can swap FRC and steel-toe fashion tips.
+1 zero desire to do anything and SO exhausted all the time. I am really trying to work till baby comes (due date 9/2) but every day is such a struggle to get to work and stay at work. Uncomfortable, tired, snacking all the time and peeing every 2 minutes, and my group is sweet but annoying with the constant "you are you feeling? I can't believe you are still here! how is the baby today??"
womp.

Oh, dude, this. My coworkers are ALL so sweet but I work at a place with 150+ employees and there's only so many times I can hear, "How's the baby? How much longer do you have?" before I start getting twitchy.

I swear if i hear one more "when are you due?!" i'm gonna fkg lose it.

I guess this is a bonus to working for a tiny company. We're pretty close, and I can literally tell them to f-off if they get sassy with me

ketomommy · August 2016

This is my first week not working. I have been working on projects around the house that were neglected before. Somehow I find I have more energy not working, than I did when I was working. My office is being great about not e-mailing me, but it makes me feel a bit left out.

Jillybear82 · August 2016

It's hard to believe I pretty much have two weeks left before I go on leave (My school has the week of labor day off, I plan on starting my leave the following week). I have been scrambling to get an IEP done. We are having to do it a month early because of my maternity leave. Unfortunately it will probably be a one that involves multiple meetings, which I really don't have time for. It also means I have not been able to do much work on my Leave of Absence binder.

Next week starts our two weeks of minimum days, where the kids go home around 12 and we have training. They grouped everyone into two groups. I was put in the second group, which other than me, is composed entirely of newbies. This is because we all have to be trained in this certain protocol, that includes basics for working with students with special needs all the way up to how and when to restrain a student. For obvious reasons, I would not be able to test out on certain skills, so they put me with the newbies, which means my certification will expire, and I will have to re-do the initial 12 hour training. I'm thinking about asking to be switched to the other group, because loosing all of my prep time for several days would pose a serious imposition on my after work family time, as I would probably need to stay pretty late to make up for it. On top of that, I will need to stay late at some point in January to do CPR/First aide certification.

My husband and I have been looking into whose healthcare plan we will add our son to. I chose the more expensive plan because it includes free labor and delivery, the other was 10% after your deductible. I work for a non-profit, so they help with the cost of the employee, but not the cost of any dependents. My husband works for a small business, and they also do not help with the cost of dependents.

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