Any pregnant teachers out there?

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Hi there,
Was just wondering how everyone copes with feeling rubbish in class (having to run to the loo etc).

Just discovered I'm pregnant and want to sleep all the time - not looking forward to going back to school tomorrow particularly!

I guess with any job it is exhausting being pregnant, but just ater some advice from people who have been there.

Thanks!

Newbie here. I teach Y3 and am 10 weeks at the moment. I've had to tell lots of staff at school because my symptoms were becoming really obvious (threw up in my classroom sink last week) and I've had a child try and kick me in the stomach and ram a chest of drawers into me in the last few days. My head has already done my risk assessment and has asked me to show it to my midwife to check it is all ok. I'm finding actual teaching ok but the staff meetings/extra clubs/politics of the place are even more unbearable than they were before now as all my energy has gone into my teaching!

Thank you Mum2be79, thats what i thought. It just seems to be that historically the pregnant women have been happy to keep doing duties, but i am not so i think i will have a fight on my hands.

I have checked the NUT maternity matters booklet and in section 7 it does say that duties will need to addressed in the risk assessment. So into battle i go!

It is so so important to keep stress down, says she who is teaching year 6 in a school with a notice to improve and ofsted due back in october! It's good that you have told people and just get a bit selfish! Thats what i'm doing, leaving before colleagues and not caring about the stares. It's amazing what carrying a little bundle makes you care less about!!

I'm a secondary PE teacher. I'm 11 weeks and it has been tough. I went back after the Easter holidays and lasted the first week. My sickness was so severe that I've been signed off until after half term. In the initial stages I couldn't even keep water down. I've still got a week and a bit left so still enough time to get me back on my feet and it is slowly getting better, but I'm prepared for it to be tough :( However timetable gets a bit easier now because year 11's have gone and year 10's have work experience and then it's the holidays :) I had to tell HT straight away because I had an early scan due to a previous ectopic pregnancy and I'm glad I did because of how unwell I've been!

I work part time as I have DS who is 13 months. My HT phoned me at home today to tell me that she was no longer going to send me on a course (tomorrow) as there was no point as I'd be going again soon! Charming!