Surprise baby & work!

Surprise baby & work!

While our mothers had the luxury of staying at home when they were pregnant, we are not that privileged. It’s a choice I made, to be pregnant and work. Thoughts which crossed my mind whenever I felt like taking a break were so dramatic!

What will I do at home? I have a cute 1.5-year old son to keep me busy all the time but will be bored after a point? I like coming to work and I love what I do (I know very rare right?)! And how will I survive to be dependent on my husband financially? Last time I took pocket money from mom was in 2007.

No way, I will not take a break. For sure work will be difficult, flash back of all that I went through in my first pregnancy just a last year back floods my vision. But what surprised me a lot was work pressure was never an issue. Infact it helped me keeping my attention away from all the nausea feeling. I remember it was Diwali time, being in retail business Diwali is one of the biggest sale season. Work would keep me up till 3 am, but it never crossed my mind how tiring it was.

What messes up your mind during pregnancy are all the sudden changes in your body, different kind of pain every day, sleepless nights and annoying people around you! And how much complaints can one husband handle?! Seriously, you can use him as your punching bag all the time because he will sympathise for some time but after a point will lose it. So, to ensure I do not repeat same mistakes as fist time to take my mind off all the things troubling I go out on a walk and that brings me some peace.

When I joined back work post maternity, the feedback I got during appraisal was that I have turned into a hostile, vindictive personality! What!! When? How? All I remember is being nice and always smiling even when I was going through tremendous pelvic pain from 3^rd trimester. So the lesson learnt is all that pain I went through changed my personality, changed my behaviour towards people. Lesson learnt, this time I smile and breath in every time I feel like snapping or killing someone :P

With pledge I have successfully completed my 1^st trimester. Hopefully, this article will help many of you to cope up. Just remember one thing that pregnancy is for you to feel special, no one cares to make you feel it. Its all in your brain, do things which you love and make this phase memorable!