August 2014 - Baking summer babies in our ovens.

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Continue as you were ladies..... :)

Another teacher here also, I'm not stressing about it anymore, I'm not going to be the teacher I want to be whilst pregnant, I just don't have the energy, but I will do my best!! Get my year 11 through, keep my year 10 on track and have fun with my key stage 3, my marking might not be up to date but hey ho, I will try my best!

Some of my colleagues know as I had a few days off with ms, and the gossip mill will be spinning when I go back next week no doubts but had scan at 9+2 and everything is fine, ms is still lingering with good days and bad and cannot wait to see the back of it!

Thank you Feelingfatty :)

That's kind of what I'm thinking howly. We're expecting Ofsted any day now - just need to get past that and then I'll be able to relax a little, I hope.

Also wondering when to tell my school as I have a week morning appt for booking in and will need to show paperwork to get the time off work. Which is fine, except my appt card says midwife on it So guess I'll have to come clean soon. Might try and wait till my early scan a week before, but won't be popular with the cover office!

How many teachers on this thread?..
I am a teacher too!

Don't know at all how I will cope back at school as have felt soooo dreadful for the past 2 weeks.

I guess we will all have to keep each other going! We are also waiting for OFSTED.

We are RI so have constant QA- walkthroughs and scrutinies all the time. Very stressful. Feel shattered thinking about it!

I guess we teachers all wanted holidays babies?? I'm excited about the thought of maternity leave starting on 23 July! Guess I won't be taking a year group of kids to Thorpe Park or Go Ape this summer though...!

Kind of hoping the baby is late and ends up being a September-born in the end. In fact, we nearly didn't try this month because I would have rather had a September baby than an August one. Only tried in the end because, well, it can take a year to conceive a baby and we don't want to waste a month. Think how much we'd regret if it kept taking forever... (It was month 2 of TTC. D'oh.)

We were month 1, and likewise would probably have preferred a September born. Although to be cynical, this one will cost a whole years worth of child care less. Swings n roundabouts!

This is a very teacher heavy thread!! I am also a qualified primary school teacher but decided to not go back after dd. strangely it changed how I feel about teaching, may change again in the future I suppose

We thought about not trying that month because I didn't want an August baby. In the end we did and we didn't, if you see what I mean, and just got lucky!!

Travis, I've never thought of it that way! There's something to be said for summer babies then. :-) Seems we 'planned' well with June and August.

DD has changed how I feel about my job too, Fatty. I detest the thought of it now.

I'm not a teacher, but that would be choice if I was to retrain now.

Not sure what we're going to do about me returning to work after DC2 is born.

Need to weigh up pre school fees and nursery fees and then think about hours etc as DD will be going to school September 2015. Sounds like an age away but I suppose it'll come round faster than we know!

i will be going back to school, i think, but i want to go part time. i'm hoping school will oblige...

We really wouldn't have chosen an August baby, but fate intervened! September would have been much better for work - as it is I will have to start mat leave in the middle of the summer hols which I would have been paid for anyway....

Does anyone else feel like a big mess? My hair is ridiculously greasy, my face looks like a pizza and I just feel bleugh! My make up slides off in no time at all now!
I can't wait to get past this rubbish feeling stage! I want to be glowing! Not looking like an oil slick! Moan over!

I think that's the case for all teachers, rose , it's so wrong that our annual leave is taken off us. But hey, hardly surprising in the current climate! Are you a teacher horace?

Halfpint I'm with you there. I used to have super dry skin-literally had about 5 spots in my life. Then when I was pregnant with DD it got a lot oilier-I would say it became 'normal' whatever that is! And now I'm pregnant again it's getting even oilier-I currently have 8 spots I can't believe what a difference these hormones are making... It's a pain as well as we're on a super tight budget and I can't afford to just buy a whole load of different skincare.

No, Travis, a trainee solicitor. Personal injury claims...dull!

But on the plus side of being a teacher and having an August baby, at least your maternity leave will begin the day the baby is born so you won't loose a couple weeks before hand. All being well (and I'm only 7 weeks so prob shouldn't even be thinking this far ahead, but it's hard not to!) I'm due around 20th so I'm really hoping I'll go over and then get the max out of my maternity leave as well as having 4-5 weeks off before hand. Everyone else at my school has worked until 38/39 weeks which I can't imagine is all that much fun! Anyway, I guess we'll all have to just wait and see what happens.

Teachers get it easy with regards to maternity leave!!

I feel oily, fat and disgusting! I have to time showering as I actually get tired washing my hair!! I have no energy for exercise and I usually love walking, running and swimming! And my diet is atrocious, my poor baby! Cannot wait to get out of this trimester it's been crap!

Teachers do get it easy with maternity and when it comes to child care, working hours etc... I w

Why's that then FriendofDorothy?

Pressed send too early!

Having said we get it easy with mat leave I do believe we put in the hard graft beforehand, there's no sitting at a desk quietly nursing morning sickness and an early night when feeling tired trough pregnancy is out of the question! It's all go 6 hours of the day entertaining 30 children an hour and endless marking that you never catch up on!

Never go into teaching for the holidays or the maternity leave!!

Actually thinking about it I don't get that good a deal, I'm due in 26/7 so the first 6 weeks of my maternity leave are actually holidays I don't get!

Humph!!

I'm not a teacher (yet) but I'm mid-way through a BEd, start block placement next Monday in year 5. I genuinely don't know how I'm going to get through it, you ladies already teaching have my complete admiration. That plus uni essays will make for an interesting couple of months!

Halfpint - I'm so oily it's ridiculous. Combination skin anyway + hormones have resulted in skin like an oil slick. Sexy.