Anyone else quit their jobs after miscarriage?

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I've had a miscarriage and now I'm considering quiting my job. Anyone else been there?

Just by way of background, I had a miscarriage last week. I was 10 weeks and it was a missed miscarriage. I've passed everything naturally at home and whilst it's only been a week I'm trying to get my s* together in a practical way, even though I'm crushed. I really wanted the baby but as soon as I got pregnant I realised I was trapped in a job that makes me miserable.

By trapped I mean, the mat leave at my work is rubbish, it's just statutory really, but it's better than maternity allowance so quitting once I knew I was pregnant just seemed irresponsible.

So here I am! I'm still signed off work but I'm really thinking about handing my notice in as soon as I go back. I hate it there. I was forced to tell my boss I was pregnant before I wanted to, because he was having a go at me about something and I just immediately panicked and hoped he'd stop what he was doing. A week after I told him, he put me on a performance review. I'm not going to go into all the gory details but he's been bullying me for years, I'm in a constant state of panic at work and I've had enough. I started having panic attacks at work about 3 years ago.

There's a real chance I won't find work right away. I could face some time of unemployment, which in your early 30s with a mortgage is frankly terrifying and makes me feel like a massive failure.

Anyone else in a similar situation? Or has been in a similar situation?

Not quite the same but I quit my job about a year ago with a 2 and 1year old. I had been a teacher for many years and my husband still is, but I had a diagnosis of Lupus in 2017 and my health was being battered by the job. I was very unhappy. The final straw was when a family cold that had passed round everyone in the house got to me and I got pneumonia. I was signed off for 3 weeks after the year before having had some time off while I was suffering from what I now know was the side effects of untreated lupus. When I got back after the pneumonia was informed that I was being put on “informal capability” and that if I didn’t pass it I would be on actual capability. 15yrs old teaching and had never even had so much as a bad observation.

It was terrifying, but I quit. I was really lucky because my union managed to retroactively argue I’d been forced into a corner and it amounted to unfair dismissal on the grounds of ill health, but that money didn’t come through for over six months. We had to readjust our outgoings for a while and got rid of Sky and of subscriptions to things like Audible, but we actually weren’t that much worse off. I then landed a stress free part time job working in the education department for local governement and I love it.

I was standing on the edge this time last year thinking I had no options: turns out I had loads, it was teaching that was blocking my options.

Good luck with whatever you decide. Life is too short for jobs you hate and bullying bosses.