Have a barking cough, cold and generally feel rubbish! HT says taking time off makes pregnant women seem precious!

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I'm a teacher and the ht announced that that the last teacher who was pregnant in our school was being a "diva" and very "precious" about taking time off when she was sick. Can't imagine his face if I rang in sick but I generally feel awful

The ticking cough is making me feel like I am damaging my baby, because of the constant pressure. I know this is probably rubbish.

I can't take anything, I have been feeling like this for a week and just can get in top of it!

I feel really sorry for myself

Take time off! You have to look after yourself and baby! When I was pregnant with my first I had laryngitus (sp?) For the first trimester and I. blame it on not taking time off. The truth is your immune system goes down when you're pregnant! This time I'm pregnant and at a different school. I've had v insensitive comments, such as "youre pregnant, not disabled or ill" this irritates me as I've never suggested such a thing, however I have complete placenta previa which has hospitalised me twice and I'm only allowed back to work on the condition of "light duties". Hey Ho...these silly comments will be made!

Take some time off! If you weren't pregnant and felt this awful would you be in work? No, because you wouldn't be worrying about how it looked!

Just remember that as its not a pregnancy related absence (even though you're pregnant if you see what I mean) it will still be counted towards absence trigger points. If you were off with something caused by pregnancy it wouldn't count towards them.

Oh, and the cough won't damage the baby :)

I used to take time off when pregnant for things like that. As I couldn't neck pain killers or cold relief I felt far worse than I usually would.

You could remind him that it is illegal to discriminate against pregnant women at work.

I would just ignore the tosser and do what's best for mum and baby!

You can take paracetamol if the cough is causing you pain. I had tonsilitis and a chest infection at the begining of my pregnancy and the GP put me on anti-biotics and codine, and a stronger inhaler for my asthma. I was on anti-sickness tablets for hyperemises at the same time. It's a wonder I didn't rattle when I walked! I also drank lots of honey and lemon and sucked on throat sweets (you can have Soothers or halls but not Strepsils).