I want to start by saying I feel really lucky that I've been able to keep working 40 hours a week up until now (almost 25 weeks), but, now that the baby is keeping me up a night, (kicking), I am starting to struggle. I try to get in bed around 9:30, and my alarm goes off at 7:00, but it's a struggle to squeeze in work, my commute, doing all of my CF stuff, (treatments, exercise, etc), and well, that's about all I have time for. By the time I get home at night (after work and the gym), it's almost 7:30, which gives me two hours to shower, dry my hair, heat up dinner, shovel some food into my face, and prepare everything for the next day. There is pretty much no time for me to actually relax and spend time with my husband. And, the other issue is that I don't get to eat dinner until after 8:00 - so I'm going to bed with a full stomach, which does not help my GERD.
To top things off, my job has been very stressful for the past six months or so - to the point where the back of my neck always hurts from tension. Being pregnant just makes this worse. I am very overloaded with work - management has me scheduled for like 50+ hours of work a week, so I am trying to squeeze it into 40 hours, which means I don't get it all done and people are constantly calling me, emailing me, and stopping by my office to ask for me for things (which means I get even less stuff done because I am interrupted so often). It's to the point where I give my phone the finger when it rings.
Last week was especially bad - between being stressed, soooooo tired from not getting enough sleep, and hormonally deranged, I ended up in the work bathroom sobbing. And then I got a little sick over the weekend - my lymph nodes hurt and I started coughing up more gunk than I normally do.
SO, my husband wants me to cut back on hours (to 32 hours a week) and tell my boss he needs to take some work away from me because I can't work full-time right now. It sucks because my boss is NOT understanding about all this stuff, which is unlike ALL of the other management where I work. I did call in sick yesterday because I wasn't feeling well, but I HAD to do some work from home. Which meant I had to go in briefly to pick up some drawings to review from home (and "briefly" turned into 1-1/2 hours because people had a gazillion questions for me while I was there). My boss's boss asked me why I was even there when I was sick, said I didn't look well, and that I needed to take care of myself. My boss just wanted to know if I could go to the staff meeting they were about to have.
I'm already signed up for intermittent FMLA for my CF, and my high risk OB has already told me that she thought I should absolutely take some FMLA each week to get some rest. But, I'm feeling really guilty about it - like I am calling in sick so I can watch a movie with my husband. And, I am definitely a type A personality and an overachiever, so I hate, hate, hate the idea of "giving up" on trying to get it all done.
So, I'm wondering if I am abnormal - was anyone actually able to pull this off and stay healthy? If so, do you have any advice?
(FWIW, I am NOT going to continue working after the baby arrives because I know I won't be able to handle it. I would love to just quit now, but we could really use the money and it would completely screw over the people I work with if quit right now.)
To top things off, my job has been very stressful for the past six months or so - to the point where the back of my neck always hurts from tension. Being pregnant just makes this worse. I am very overloaded with work - management has me scheduled for like 50+ hours of work a week, so I am trying to squeeze it into 40 hours, which means I don't get it all done and people are constantly calling me, emailing me, and stopping by my office to ask for me for things (which means I get even less stuff done because I am interrupted so often). It's to the point where I give my phone the finger when it rings.
Last week was especially bad - between being stressed, soooooo tired from not getting enough sleep, and hormonally deranged, I ended up in the work bathroom sobbing. And then I got a little sick over the weekend - my lymph nodes hurt and I started coughing up more gunk than I normally do.
SO, my husband wants me to cut back on hours (to 32 hours a week) and tell my boss he needs to take some work away from me because I can't work full-time right now. It sucks because my boss is NOT understanding about all this stuff, which is unlike ALL of the other management where I work. I did call in sick yesterday because I wasn't feeling well, but I HAD to do some work from home. Which meant I had to go in briefly to pick up some drawings to review from home (and "briefly" turned into 1-1/2 hours because people had a gazillion questions for me while I was there). My boss's boss asked me why I was even there when I was sick, said I didn't look well, and that I needed to take care of myself. My boss just wanted to know if I could go to the staff meeting they were about to have.
I'm already signed up for intermittent FMLA for my CF, and my high risk OB has already told me that she thought I should absolutely take some FMLA each week to get some rest. But, I'm feeling really guilty about it - like I am calling in sick so I can watch a movie with my husband. And, I am definitely a type A personality and an overachiever, so I hate, hate, hate the idea of "giving up" on trying to get it all done.
So, I'm wondering if I am abnormal - was anyone actually able to pull this off and stay healthy? If so, do you have any advice?
(FWIW, I am NOT going to continue working after the baby arrives because I know I won't be able to handle it. I would love to just quit now, but we could really use the money and it would completely screw over the people I work with if quit right now.)