Is it normal to feel differently about your job when pregnant?

[Yoes]

I can’t seem to focus on it much at the moment (having previously loved it and poured energy and enthusiasm into it). I just feel like I have other things on my mind and have the nesting urges already in the second trimester.

Is anyone else experienced this, if so, will I feel differently after I’ve had the baby?

Yeah I’m pretty ambivalent about work now I’m pregnant! But I always did the acceptable minimum before and forgot about work at 5.01pm so perhaps not the best comparison.

No, I was commuting internationally till 36 weeks, and trying to get a big project finished before I had to go on mat leave (at 36 weeks because I couldn’t be cleared to fly after that), so I was all fired up because of that. The nausea did make the public speaking part of my job more difficult, though.

Pretty normal. also feeling a lot less motivated. not to mention tired so energy levels aren't helping!!

I am working from home today and fighting the urge to go and wash all the baby things. but that's just me. My works also recently increased the amount we have to be in the office and decided to start monitoring us - I've been with the firm for 15 years and feel like i'm now being treated like an untrustworthy child so not helping with the motivation much either

Not surprised! I wonder why they’ve made that decision, really frustrating isn’t it.

Management wanting to throw their weight around sadly. hoping by the time i get back from mat leave they'd have moved onto something else and the idea will have been left in the dust. the monitoring system is awful and inaccurate too. constantly having to submit corrections

When I was pregnant (had a higher risk pregnancy due to bleed at 28 weeks) it just put things in perspective. I was a lot calmer about things that probably would have irritated me beforehand (although more frustrated with the sector generally - worked in a university). Although probably dramatic case as I then changed career after baby came, five years down the line I think the trauma in pregnancy really just changed everything for me but it began with those niggles in my career.